How to preserve dill for winter

Fresh dill is often added to salads, soups, main dishes - it gives a special freshness to any dish. In winter you can buy dill at the store, but better to prepare for the cold time prepared their own dill. Save the dill for winter in different ways.

Storage it is best to use young fennel with young stems. Greens should be washed under running water, remove the roots and the extra blades of grass to dry out on a towel.

Prepared dill to dry. For this you need to cut, spread out on a baking sheet, place in oven for 20 minutes. The oven door should be open.

Dried dill can be bundles. For this herbs are tied into small bundles and hang in a dark place. Dill should always be ventilated.

Can be dried and in the fridge. To do this, chopped fresh herbs, placed on a tray, put on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. After 2-3 days the fennel is collected in bags and stored in a cool dark place.

A good way to preserve dill is freezing. Clean sprigs laid out on a flat surface and put them in the freezer. For this method, you can use chopped dill, and you can freeze whole sprigs. Frozen twigs become very brittle and easy to mash – it turns out small frozen dill.

Another way to store fennel for the winter is salting. Chopped dill you need to put in a glass jar, filling with coarse salt. Greens tightly compacted and covered with a lid. This product should be stored in the refrigerator. Adding such herbs in your food, you need to remember that it is very salty.

Another method of freezing is making ice cubes with parsley. For this the form of ice fill with chopped greens, fill with water and freeze.