Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, preserving and keeping fresh herbs. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Preserving and Keeping Fresh Herbs is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Preserving and Keeping Fresh Herbs is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
Fresh herbs garnish dishes, brighten salads and add fresh flavor to practically anything they land on, from soups to stir-fries. Fresh herbs can't live forever, but you can dry, freeze or preserve them in vinegar or oil to help keep them from the compost bin and carry their flavor long past their use-by date. To keep your fresh herbs lasting longer, simple: Once they are prepped (above), add to a mason jar, label, place in refrigerator.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook preserving and keeping fresh herbs using 4 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Preserving and Keeping Fresh Herbs:
- Take 1 cup fresh sage
- Prepare 1 cup fresh thyme
- Take 1 cup fresh marjoram
- Take 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil (or as needed)
Decide whether to keep the leaves attached to the stem or remove them and add them separately. When drying fresh herbs in a microwave oven, only ever use the microwave on defrost and place a half cup of. This super easy trick keeps fresh herbs useable for a couple of weeks. Several years ago my mother taught me this super easy trick, which really works, and keeps fresh herbs fresh Whatever you're doing to preserve your herbs, keep doing that!
Steps to make Preserving and Keeping Fresh Herbs:
- Options for preserving your herbs: Sage, Thyme, and Marjoram.
- Rinse, pat dry if necessary.
- If brown, have begun to dry. Best to leave to air dry rather than to preserve in oil.
- For Thyme, hold at one end and slid fingers to release herb.
- Peel leaves from stems.
- For Sage, hold at on end and slide off to release herb.
- Should remove easily from stem.
- Option 1 olive oil: (Good for herbs like sage, thyme and marjoram) Place in ice cube tray.
- Pour olive oil over herbs.
- Allow time to freeze.
- Press leaves into the oil to submerge, if necessary.
- Pop out of tray once frozen.
- Store in labeled baggie.
- Freeze. Good for parsley, cilantro, and basil. If using homegrown or organic can use steams as well. Chop up, label and place in baggie. Press out any air, freeze flat and stack like index cards. The color looks like fresh, maintains flavor but the texture is softened.
- Fresh herbs keep well in water filled jars on the counter. Water/ lemon juice/ orange can be be substituted for olive oil.
Mine definitely start to go yellowy and wilted. We cook with loads of fresh herbs in summer, but sometimes we find that we've snipped or bought more than we can use right away. Before drying, shake to remove dirt and discard any withered leaves. (You can gently wash the herbs, but be sure to dry them thoroughly to prevent mildew. Many home cooks use fresh herbs to add massive amounts of flavor to dishes. But how do you preserve them?
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