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Preserving Herbs & Basil Garlic Bread — Taste Creations Blog Hop

October 3, 2016 By Lauren

how to freeze basil in olive oil

Welcome to this month’s Taste Creations Linkup blog hop, where we will be sharing our herb recipes! The Taste Creations blog hop happens on the 1st Monday of Every Month at 7am PST / 10am EST.

Taste Creations Blog Ho: a collection of herb recipes
Today I’m sharing how to preserve basil. My family and I love basil. We all like pesto and enjoy basil and olive oil on our pasta. The problem is that when I buy basil, I never seem to use it all before it starts to wilt.

“Basil Bombs”

How to use a mini muffin tin to preserve fresh basil. It's really quite easy!
So I’ve started to preserve my basil — it’s really quite simple. When I get a batch of basil and can’t use it all, I simply wash and dry my basil, and then toss it in the blender with about a cup of olive oil, and mix. (And because my family likes garlic, I also throw in some garlic powder.) I then pour the mixture into my mini muffin tin and freeze it. Once the olive oil/basil mixture is frozen, I carefully scoop out each section and store them in a Ziploc bag in the freezer.

When I could use some of the olive oil/basil mixture for cooking, I just take one out of the freezer and pop it into my recipe. My basil/olive oil “bombs” are great for making garlic bread — check out my recipe at the bottom of this post!

Fresh basil garlic bread recipe

Basil Garlic Bread

basil garlic bread recipe

Fresh Basil Garlic Bread
2016-09-30 23:16:01
Garlic bread flavored with fresh basil
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Prep Time
15 min
Prep Time
15 min
Ingredients
  1. 1 loaf of French bread
  2. 2 to 3 basil bombs (these basil bombs should include about 1 tablespoon of garlic powder each)
  3. 6 pats of butter (optional)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit
  2. Cut the loaf of bread in half length wise.
  3. Spread 2 to 3 "basil bombs" (and a few pats of butter if desired) across the open top of the bread.
  4. Place the bread, open side up, on a baking sheet in the oven.
  5. Bake for 10-12 minutes until the bread is warmed through.
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Be sure to check out my friends’ herb recipes!

Taste Creations Blog Ho: a collection of herb recipes

Savory Shortbread Pesto Parmensan Basil Crackers from Tikkido
 
Simple Herbed Butter from Our Good Life
 
Pizza Pinwheels from An Italian in my Kitchen

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Comments

  1. Nikki from Tikkido says

    October 3, 2016 at 2:11 PM

    Brilliant! And the addition of basil to garlic bread sounds absolutely amazing, too.
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  2. Carrie @ Curly Crafty Mom says

    October 4, 2016 at 12:19 AM

    This is such a great idea, especially if I can talk Brian into a raised garden bed next year. I am such a sucker for garlic bread, it looks really good with the basil spread on top!

    Carrie
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    • Jayna says

      November 7, 2016 at 9:49 PM

      Woot, I will cerltinay put this to good use!

  3. Rosemary says

    October 4, 2016 at 5:58 AM

    What a great idea Lauren looking forward to trying this.
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  4. Terri Steffes says

    October 5, 2016 at 11:12 AM

    I’ll have to give this a try. We had a good crop of basil this year, two different kinds!
    Terri Steffes recently posted…Simple Herbed Butter #TasteCreationsMy Profile

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