Pizza Thyme

Pizza thyme sometimes known as Italian thyme is a perennial plant with deep green oval shaped leaves and pink flowers in spring /summer. It reaches a height of around 20cm and has a strong flavour and scent of thyme and oregano.

The leaves can be used in any recipe calling for thyme, its strong flavour making it suitable for pizza and pasta. Use in stuffing, soups and sprinkle over baked vegetables. Nice stirred through cooked mushrooms and omelettes or sprinkled on sardines.

In the garden thyme grows well as a companion to cabbage, onions, roses and salad burnet.

Pizza Thyme is a low growing thyme with a flavour somewhere between oregano and Thyme

Perfect for, as the name suggests, Pizzas, but equally at home in many other dishes.