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- Keep the dill properly after harvesting
- Store fresh dill in the fridge
- Freeze the dill properly
- The drying of dill
- Tips & Tricks
Keep the dill properly after harvesting
Fresh dill is one of the most popular culinary herbs in European cuisine. Since the cut dill tips are only very short-lived at room temperature, they should be processed and stored according to the intended use.
Store fresh dill in the fridge
At room temperature, harvested dill spikes and dill grass often wither within a day and lose their typical aroma. Storage in the refrigerator can extend the possible storage time for fresh dill to about one to three weeks. For that there are different possibilities:
If you can foresee that you can not process the harvested amount of dill in the short term, then drying and freezing the dill are the better choices.
Freeze the dill properly
Before freezing, you can free all the dill tips with cold water from adhering dust and then dab dry gently with a kitchen towel. For pickling salmon or similar uses, you can freeze whole dill tips in one go. However, if you intend to use the dill for marinades, soups, and salads, freezing already chopped dill may be the more convenient option. Chopped dill is often frozen with some water in ice cube trays, as it gives off its strong aroma less in the freezer on other food.
The drying of dill
When drying dill, it is important to distinguish between drying the dill tips and the dill and drying the dill seeds. Since the dill leaves lose relatively strong taste during drying, freezing is more preferable for their preservation. The bundling of small bouquets of dill, including the fully mature flower umbels, however, lends itself to catch the coveted dill seeds when they are dried upside down in slipped-over paper bags.
Tips & Tricks
If you let washed dill in rape oil with some bay leaves and peppercorns for about three weeks, you will get delicious dill oil for refining cucumber salad and fish dishes.
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