How to freeze herbs for winter

It turns out that the greens can not only freeze, but the pickle. The second option is more complicated, and not the fact that you get (but you can try), but with freezing problems should not be. If you do everything right, winter can indulge in hot soup with aromatic herbs, almost like a bed. ;)

freezing

My grandmother just chopped greens, it was laying on bags or small banks and sent to the freezer. But the banks took up too much space and packages constantly had to fiddle with knots, so this time I decided to use a more convenient way - wrapped in plastic film greens roll, pre-chopped her knife.

These rolls then fold in the package. If you need a green, you gets it out of the freezer, cut off the right amount... and everything. The remainder of the roll you again add up to a package and send it in the freezer. The main thing - do not confuse what greens in which the package is. Here cilantro can be identified by smell, as even after freezing it is not going away!

Pickling

With salting is a little more complicated. My mother in law just mix the salt with crushed herbs in the bank and sends it in the freezer. When I asked her what the salt, she said that it is better preserved flavor and just so convenient: tossed into the soup, and almost do not need to add salt.

Others salted greens and do not put it in the freezer. Standard ratio of the green to the amount of salt: 100 grams 20 grams of green salt. Salting you need to wash the greens, dry, grind and start to stack layers in the pasteurized jar herbs and salt, then a well-compacted layer and repeat again. As a result, the greens should let the juice. The hard-packed greens, the better and longer it is stored. Banks are closed and stored in a cool place.

The variant with a salting I did not practice, so 100 percent positive result can not vouch, but be sure to try.

Hurry, while the market still smells fresh herbs and a grandmother can be almost a penny to buy fragrant bunch of dill, cilantro, parsley or basil - winter is sure to come in handy!