把新鲜草药冻成冰块来保存

I love 成长ing herbs in my garden and one of the reasons is that they thrive in our hot, 干燥的夏天很少大惊小怪.

I must admit that I sometimes forget to make use of my 新鲜香草, 或者有时我拥有的比我需要的多. Some frost-tender herbs like 罗勒 don’t 成长 in winter in my garden – so either I have too much in the summer and almost none at all in winter.

好吧,没有更多的! Did you know that you could freeze your 新鲜香草 so you could use them during the winter months?

I tried this with my 细香葱 earlier this summer and it was so easy to do.

以下是如何做到这一点:

选择你最喜欢的草药…

 洗.

把它们切成想要的大小.

我就是喜欢韭菜.

Place your 切碎的香草 into an ice cube tray, filling up each one about 3/4 of the way full.

装满水, taking care to allow a little room for expansion since water expands when it freezes.

把它放在冰箱里几个小时.  

冰冷的草药

一旦冻结, pop out your ‘草立方体’ and put them in a freezer container or plastic container and store in your freezer.

冰冷的草药

Now, whenever you need 新鲜香草 when you cook, add a few 冰块 to your favorite sauce.  

**You can also freeze herbs into 冰块 using olive oil instead of water, if desired.

Another great way to 保存 herbs is to dry them.I talked about how to do this in an earlier post –  “如何种植和干燥草药”

诺艾尔约翰逊, 又名, “AZ植物女士”是一名园艺师, 认证树艺家, and landscape consultant who helps people learn how to create, 成长, and maintain beautiful desert gardens that thrive in a hot, 干燥的气候. 她是通过她来做这件事的 咨询服务她的在线课程 101年betway苹果下载和她每月的会员俱乐部， 穿过花园门. As she likes to tell desert-dwellers, "Gardening in the desert isn't hard, but it is different."