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- Fruit enjoyment in every season: freeze peaches
- Special features when freezing peaches
- Preparation: Core the peaches and remove them from the skin
- Freeze peach slices and pieces
- Freeze peach puree
- Instructions for thawing and preserving frozen peaches
Peaches can be frozen in different presentations
Fruit enjoyment in every season: freeze peaches
A sun-ripened peach concentrates the sweetness of the summer. Since trees bear kilos of fruit in some years, you can not process all the peaches fresh. Frozen, however, peaches retain their valuable ingredients and their fruity taste into the next year.
Special features when freezing peaches
Before freezing peaches, you should remove the furry skin and pips. Otherwise, the fruits may become bitter over time. It should also be noted that the consistency changes from freezing to negative. Depending on the intended use, there are two recommended ways to freeze peaches:
Preparation: Core the peaches and remove them from the skin
To remove the thin peach skin, first cut the fruit crosswise with a knife at the bottom. Then blanch peaches for a few minutes in bubbly boiling water. The skin can now easily be removed from the fruit.
Then halve the peaches to remove the seeds. Now you have to decide in which form you would like to freeze the fruits. You can either cut the peaches into slices or pieces or prepare a puree.
Freeze peach slices and pieces
If you plan to make compote from your frozen peaches, or if you need peach pieces for desserts or fruity meat dishes, then you should opt for a chunky variant when freezing.
Freeze peach puree
To prepare peach sorbet or to later turn the peaches into jam or a fruit sauce, you should puree the fruits before freezing. The peaches in the freezer take up very little space and are optimally prepared for further processing.
Instructions for thawing and preserving frozen peaches
Peach pieces should be thawed in a colander at room temperature before further processing. This will prevent the fruit pieces from becoming overly soggy and may also trap the fruit juice.
If you want to heat the frozen peaches for further processing, you can put the puree in a pot without thawing.
The fruits remain in both variants, whether chunky or pureed, lasting for several months. At the latest after a year, however, they lose noticeably in aroma, which is why it is recommended to consume the peaches in a timely manner.