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.
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”
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!
Basil Garlic Bread
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Brilliant! And the addition of basil to garlic bread sounds absolutely amazing, too.
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
curlycraftymom.com
Woot, I will cerltinay put this to good use!
What a great idea Lauren looking forward to trying this.
I’ll have to give this a try. We had a good crop of basil this year, two different kinds!