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- Keep kohlrabi tubers - but how?
- Keep kohlrabi in the right place
- Storage in the fridge
- Storage in the freezer
- Storage in the raw state
Kohlrabis should be kept together with leaves
Keep kohlrabi tubers - but how?
In the spring, the kohlrabi is one of the first tasty and particularly tender root vegetables. The round tubers can be stored with little effort for a long time.
Keep kohlrabi in the right place
Once the tubers have a diameter of eight to ten centimeters, they are harvested. Cut the tuber over the root and remove the large leaves. The delicate, inner leaves remain on the tuber, they can be processed with. If you do not need all the ripe kohlrabi at once, there are various ways to preserve the vegetables gently:
Storage in the fridge
To keep the kohlrabi fresh for a long time, it can be stored in the fridge. To do this, wrap the vegetables in a damp cloth and place them in the vegetable compartment. In this humid climate the kohlrabi lingers for about two weeks, but loses some of its nutrients over the period. Without damp cover, the storage time is reduced to just under a week. The outer skin loses moisture, becomes soft and wrinkled.
Storage in the freezer
This is easily possible if you cut the tubers before freezing into slices or pieces and these blanched, that is, briefly brewed in hot water and then quenched with cold water.
Without blanching, the vegetables in the freezer become woody, changing their taste and appearance. But even when properly processed, the kohlrabi is no longer crispy after thawing. If you do not like that, it's best to freeze ready-made kohlrabi dishes. This is very easy. For this purpose, the vegetables are cleaned, processed to taste and finally frozen as a finished meal in suitable plastic cans. So the kohlrabi stay tasty for months.
Storage in the raw state
Various types of cabbage and root vegetables can be stored for months in raw state, without losing any of their quality. First of all, care should be taken to use late-ripening vegetables, which have not received too much fertilizer.
In the dry, cool cellar, the vegetables are stored in a box of sand. The same purpose is fulfilled by a ground rent. To do this, dig a well about 40 cm deep in a dry place in the garden, place the vegetables between layers of sand and cover the whole with pine green or leaves.
Small containers of metal or plastic, such as an old juice pot or a washing drum, are suitable as ground rental when buried. Again, the vegetables are cool and dry in the sand. Air holes provide the necessary air exchange. Finally, the rent is sealed with a tight lid, so no mice are invited.
Anyone storing his kohlrabi in rents must make sure that all tubers are undamaged to prevent mold growth and putrefaction.