Simple ways harvesting greens for the winter
Spicy herbs will make any dish more tasty and aromatic. Billet greens for the winter is not just a way to preserve healthy vitamins. This is an opportunity to regain the bright summer attracting the smell of herbs on cold winter days.
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Simple ways to harvest greens for the winter
Salting greens
For salting spices for the winter, we will need:
- ordinary salt, without impurities 250 gr
- fresh herbs 1 kg
Go through the plants, remove all the yellow leaves and long stalks. Wash with running water and shake to remove excess moisture. Finely chop and mix with salt. Put in small glass jars. Close with nylon covers.
For seasoning lovers, you can sharpen this way:
Mix the salt for the workpiece with 6-7 chopped cloves of garlic. Lay the prepared ingredients in layers. After 18-20 hours, spicy seasoning will settle. Put the layers in the jar so that the last layer there was salt.
Keep such blanks in the refrigerator, but in plus zone.
When cooking, do not salt the dishes to which you will add salted greens.
With this harvesting of greens for the winter, its shelf life is 9-10 months.
Harvesting greens in oil
Rinse freshly picked aromatic plants and chop finely. You can skip through a meat grinder. Arrange into small banks and fill with vegetable oil. Mix with a wooden skewer harvesting. Add oil so that it covers greenery.
For the sharpness of taste, you can add half the red hot pepper or a few cloves of garlic.
Close the jar tightly and keep in the refrigerator. Shelf life 6-9 months.
Pickled greens for the winter
Prepare the marinade:
For 800 ml of water, take 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar, 1 table spoon of salt without impurities and 200 ml of vinegar 9%.
Thoroughly wash the prepared raw materials, put them tightly in jars and pour boiling marinade. Roll up the cans and wrap it up well cooling down. Pickled greens are stored for about six months.
Frozen greens
The easiest and most convenient way to preserve greens is to to freeze. Better to freeze a bouquet of herbs. there is many ways that modern housewives use:
- Rinse aromatic herbs, dry on a towel, then wrap in a plastic bag and freeze
- Can be stored in vacuum containers, pre-sliced in small pieces
- Cut 0.5 kg of fragrant grass and mix with 500 ml of water. Pour into ice molds and freeze
You can store frozen aromatic seasoning up to two years old.
Tasty ideas:
You can cook a tender creamy nettle soup both in summer and and in winter. For sorrel soup in the winter, fragrant sorrel seasoning. Do not forget that dry seasonings are fragrant plants contain all the summer vitamins that are so necessary in the winter.
