How to best preserve aromatic herbs and spices for use in the kitchen. Many useful tips for storing aromatic herbs and spices.
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Le herbs and spices, they are really essential to give an extra touch of flavor and a real characteristic taste to our dishes. Then the time has really come to learn how to keep them at their best in order to always have them available.
Le fresh aromatic herbs they can be dried or frozen. It is also very interesting to learn how to prepare both flavored oil and salt flavored with herbs and spices at home, in order to have some different condiments at hand.
If you are lucky enough to collect chillies or fresh aromatic herbs, such as parsley and rosemary, directly from your garden, the dishes you prepare will be even tastier.
Here are so many useful tips for store aromatic herbs and spices for use in the kitchen.
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How to dry aromatic herbs and spices
You can easily dry at home both the fresh aromatic herbs that you will collect in the vegetable garden or in the garden, and the fresh spices that you will have available, for example chilli. L'drying it must take place in a cool and dry place, protected from humidity. You can dry the aromatic herbs in leaves in a paper bag or hang bunches of sprigs of your aromatic plants or fresh chillies. Alternatively, to dry the aromatic herbs you can use a dryer. To prepare dried chillies or dried tomatoes in the summer you can take advantage of the sun.
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How to store dried herbs and spices
If you have purchased dried spices in bulk or if you have dried aromatic herbs available (from you or bought as such), transfer them to glass jars with lids or in airtight containers. Jars and containers must always be thoroughly clean. You will need to store your spices away from heat, light and humidity. Better to keep the jars in one of the kitchen cabinets rather than on a shelf. The same is true for aromatic herbs.
How to prepare herb and spice flavored salt
With your favorite herbs or spices you can prepare yours at a very low cost flavored salt customized. Salt storage is one of the oldest methods to avoid food spoilage. To prepare your flavored salt you can use coarse salt or fine salt of your choice to combine with spices or dried aromatic herbs.
An extra suggestion: you can grind the coarse salt in the mixer or in the food processor together with dried aromatic herbs to obtain a 'colored' and personalized fine salt. Mixing salt and hebrew helps reduce the amount of seasoning needed for your dishes. From the salt flavored with rosemary al pepper flavored salt: Thu find many useful recipes.
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How to prepare flavored oil at home
Here's another idea for storing and using your favorite herbs and spices. It is about prepare the flavored oil at home. In addition to a good extra virgin olive oil, you can choose as ingredients basil, rosemary, parsley, chilli but also thyme, oregano and citrus peel. THU le recipes.
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Freeze the fresh herbs
Do you have plenty of fresh aromatic herbs available? So you can freeze them. The advice is to chop the basil and parsley leaves, but also celery or fennel and store them in small glasses that can be easily placed in the freezer, or in boxes or in ice molds. If you prepare pesto with basil at home, you can freeze it for storage, always in small glasses or ice containers (even without adding water or oil).
Read also: All the tricks for freezing fruit, vegetables and aromatic herbs
Prepare the nut at home
Alternatively, you can add spices and herbs to yours homemade nut. There are numerous versions of the homemade cube. Some require freezing, others storage in jars, others still recommend drying the aromatic herbs and vegetable peels and then mincing everything and obtaining a powder to which you can add salt. THU you will find many useful tips and recipes to prepare your homemade cube.
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Do you have any other suggestions on the storage of aromatic herbs and spices?
Marta Albè
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