Freezing and preserving herbs

Nova5

Sharifa wrote: »

I've never frozen basil (wouldn't think it would work very well), but what about putting it in a jamjar with some olive oil and making flavoured oil?

Thanks Sharifa - think I will split it. Freeze half and put other half in some olive oil.

Pink.

Nova5 wrote: »

Hope you don't mind me joining your discussion: what about basil - I have a pot on the window sill looking a bit tired - is it worth chopping up and freezing or should I dump it in the composter?

Hi Nova,

Welcome to Old Style :hello:

Have a look here and here for step by step guides to freezing basil.

Pink

Wardi

Cool thanks for this.

Was just thinking about it myself as I am embarking on growing some thyme, parsley, corriander and basil!!

Nova5

Pink-winged wrote: »

Hi Nova,

Welcome to Old Style :hello:

Have a look here and here for step by step guides to freezing basil.

Pink

Thanks Pink. Just learned from the 2nd link that you don't to chop up ginger to freeze it (which I spent ages doing the other night), you can freeze the whole root. :T

samsil

hi wow thanks for all your help and replies, think I will start to use all the spare herbs up in frozen butters (for steak, fish, jacket pots etc) flavoured oils (salads, on feta etc?) and in ice cubes, will just experiment see which works best. for each. thanks so much

Carmen

Hello everyone, can someone please tell me if it is possible to freeze corriander, and if so what is the best way to do it and still preserve the taste?
Thanks
Carmen x

Pink.

Hi carmen,

Yes you can freeze coriander. The best way to do it is to make a paste of two parts herbs to one part olive oil in your food processor. Then freeze in ice cubes.

There's an older thread on freezing herbs so I'll merge your thread with it to keep all the replies together.

Pink

saffronflowers

We love fresh herbs and I eat a field full of flat leaf parsley, I could convert my garden to growing it however with three dogs I dont think this is necessarily a great idea!!!!:rotfl:

So my question is can you freeze fresh herbs or should they be lightly blanched to keep colour.

I do use dried and a lot of home grown rosemary but I do prefer fresh.

Any ideas?

SFx

soappie

You don't need to blanch them.

If you are only using them for cooking, put portion sizes into an ice cube tray and fill with water. All you need to do then is pop an ice cube or two into whatever dish you're cooking straight from the freezer.

Bongedone

I freeze and use rosemary straight from frozen. I have also done the same with thyme. I imagine it may only work with woody herbs.