Save the Basil!
April 27th 2010 02:18
I love Basil. It’s a beautiful fragrant herb and typically features in my kitchen. It’s unfortunate I don’t have a balcony, window ledge or garden to grow some – as it’s quite an expensive herb. A small-ish bunch is at least $4! I usually don’t end up using all of it and it pains me to throw it away after a couple of days – doesn’t last too long sitting in the *vase*.
I cruised through the Internet checking to see if it was at all possible to store basil. Came across a couple of suggestions, and lo and behold came up with this solution – which works better for me.
An easy way to store Basil
What you need:
Clean and Dry freezer containers
Basil
Good extra virgin olive oil
What to do:
1…Lightly wash/rinse the basil that you want to store. Then pluck leaves.
2…Pat dry with a kitchen paper-towel and place in bowl – or you can spin dry in a salad spinner. Pour some good olive oil on the leaves and mix through – making sure that each leaf is saturated.
3…Put some olive oil in the freezer container. Then place a serve (enough for cooking one meal) into the container. You can top up with more olive oil too if you wish – but I’ve found that saturating the leaves first with olive oil is sufficient; more economical.
There you have it, beautiful basil in the freezer ready for use any time. An added bonus is the lovely basil infused oil you’ll get. Mmm, I can already smell (and taste) it!
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