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Options for preserving your herbs: Sage, Thyme, and Marjoram. If brown, have begun to dry. Best to leave to air dry rather than to preserve in oil.
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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 cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Preserving and Keeping Fresh Herbs:
- Prepare 1 cup fresh sage
- Get 1 cup fresh thyme
- Prepare 1 cup fresh marjoram
- Make ready 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil (or as needed)
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Instructions 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.
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. Herbs can be preserved in various ways including drying, freezing and adding to oil. The method you choose will depend on the type of herb, your own Remove herbs when still partially moist and warm and allow to cool as they dry out as the heat escapes. Best way to keep plenty of flavor when using a. Fresh herbs go bad because of a number of different factors.
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