Guide to Prepare Preserving and Keeping Fresh Herbs

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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. This super easy trick keeps fresh herbs useable for a couple of weeks.

Guide to Prepare Preserving and Keeping Fresh Herbs

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook preserving and keeping fresh herbs using 4 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Preserving and Keeping Fresh Herbs:

1. Take 1 cup fresh sage
2. Prepare 1 cup fresh thyme
3. Make ready 1 cup fresh marjoram
4. Get 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. To keep your fresh herbs lasting longer, simple: Once they are prepped (above), add to a mason jar, label, place in refrigerator. As you need the herbs Of course, I added it to this list because I use it to preserve my herbs when they are in full season and I am already getting my dehydrator out to make.

Instructions

Steps to make Preserving and Keeping Fresh Herbs:

1. Options for preserving your herbs: Sage, Thyme, and Marjoram.
2. Rinse, pat dry if necessary.
3. If brown, have begun to dry. Best to leave to air dry rather than to preserve in oil.
4. For Thyme, hold at one end and slid fingers to release herb.
5. Peel leaves from stems.
6. For Sage, hold at on end and slide off to release herb.
7. Should remove easily from stem.
8. Option 1 olive oil: (Good for herbs like sage, thyme and marjoram) Place in ice cube tray.
9. Pour olive oil over herbs.
10. Allow time to freeze.
11. Press leaves into the oil to submerge, if necessary.
12. Pop out of tray once frozen.
13. Store in labeled baggie.
14. 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.
15. Fresh herbs keep well in water filled jars on the counter. Water/ lemon juice/ orange can be be substituted for olive oil.

Discover how to effectively harvest and preserve your fresh herbs to avoid waste and ensure you have a ready supply of flavorful herbs all year. If your goal is to harvest cilantro for its leaves, you'll have to keep an eye on these plants. Once they bolt, leaves become scarce and the herb will have to. A handful of fresh herbs elevates your meals in an instant. Mathis relies on a vacuum sealer to keep fresh herbs. "The sealer keeps all air out and helps herbs maintain their freshness," she says.

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