Freeze fresh fruit/veg?

EagerLearner

Hi all,

Very daft question but... I want to freeze vegetables that I don't use immediately, rather than throw them away.

I tried once with cut up sweet potatoes but they went all brown once I froze them.

I read that you have to par-boil veg first.

So should I boil the veg for 5 mins and then let them cool, then freeze?

Thanks :T

squeaky

Freezing:
Freezing Foods - A Guideline link
Focus on freezing
- Apples and crumbles?
- Bakery items
- Bread Dough
- Broccoli
- Burger mix
- Cakes and puddings?
- Can I freeze double cream and fruit salad?
- Can you freeze scones & pancakes & cakes?
- Carrots
- Cherries
- Chillies, herbs (and wine)
- Chillies, mixed
- Cider
- Cooked meals?
- Cooking for the freezer... Help!
- Cooking meals for the Freezer
- Cooking for the freezer - vegetarian
- Couscous
- Curry sauce from a jar
- Defrosting cooked meals
- defrosting goat's milk
- Defrosting in a microwave
- Defrosting lasagna
- Defrosting semi skimmed milk
- Defrosting surplus food
- Eggs
- Foods that dont freeze well at all
- French sticks
- Fresh fruit/veg?
- Guacamole
- Herbs - Basil
- Herbs - Coriander
- Hummus
- Lasgana - Cooked or raw?
- Lemons (+out of date cream)
- Meal planning and freezing food
Meringue - does it freeze?
- Milk
- Milk - What can you freeze?
- Milk - Freezing milk
- Mushrooms
- Onions
- Onions (revisited)
- Pasta, cooked
- Pastry and pies?
- Potatoes, mashed
- Potatoes, raw
- Pizza bases
- Risotto
- Sauces and pastes
- Soya milk
- Sweet and sour mixed veg
- Yoghurt
- Yorkshires - freeze the batter or the cooked puds?


And finally:-

Freezing - quick questions thread.

Carmen

Hello everyone,
I have just roasted a surplus of veg...courgettes, peppers, aubergine,tomatoes, but is it now possible to freeze them successfully?
Thank you
Carmen x

angie_loves_veg

yes I suppose so - my local farm shop sells these (par roasted) as a mixture for cooking from frozen. Theirs are 'loose' so I suppose you would have to open freeze before you put into a bag for storage.

If you don't think they would survive re-roasting, I suppose you could mush/ blitz them a bit before freezing for use as a pasta sauce maybe?

Carmen

Thanks Angie, what a great idea to blitz for pasta sauce :T They are fairly mushy already. I will freeze a small amount as they are, just to see if they do freeze well.
Carmen x

johnswife

Hi,
Just been given a food processor by FIL which has lots of tools for slicing and chopping. I am planning to scour the supermarkets late for the reduced veg and wonder if I can freeze them. Is there anythin g special to do to the veg before freezing?

punchingjudy

blanch it!! Bung it in boiling water for 1 minute take it out and bung it into cold water. I'm not exactly sure why, but I think its to retain colour and texture.

Happy slicing and chopping

johnswife

Thanks, I know back a few years it was all about blanching etc but wasn't sure if it was absolutley necessary, just a bit lazy.

Pink.

Hi Johnswife,

There's an older thread with lots of ideas on freezing vegetables so I've added your thread to it to keep all the suggestions together.

Pink

keza

can i freeze fresh veg or can i only refridgerate it?