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- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- From: John Rodakowski <whyme@u.washington.edu>
- Subject: Herb-oil Based Concentrate
- Message-ID: <3PQTUTA@taronga.com>
- Organization: Taronga Park BBS
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 21:34:54 -0700 (PDT)
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- If you're making pesto this year, buy a few extra pounds of basil and try
- this. This process produces a concentrate that can be used in place of
- fresh herbs in many recipes.
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- 2 cups clean, hard-packed leaves of your favorite fresh herb
- 1/2 cup of your favorite oil
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- Combine the leaves and oil in a food processor, and chop until they form a
- paste. Freeze the paste until it is needed for a recipe. Ice cube trays
- provide an ideal sized cube of concentrate, but they're messy to clean
- afterwards. Once the cubes have frozen, transfer them to a zip-lock bag
- for storage. I've also used muffin tins for the initial freezing, but
- these produce cubes a little too large for my purposes. Another method
- for freezing and storage is to put the concentrate into small plastic
- containers.
- The oil coats everything, and helps protect the herbs from freezer burn.
- John Rodakowski (whyme@u.washington.edu)
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