Curry Recipes Online
Beginners Guide => Grow Your Own Spices and Herbs => Topic started by: Davegrc on August 14, 2014, 11:03 AM
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I am all for growing what I can ! Actually when you live away from modern cities it's a matter of having to some times !
For me t was that the local markets did not always have it when I needed it so I had to start learning how to buy plenty when it was fresh and preserve it in a manor that was except able n flavor and aesthetics ! Freezing it is just don't go there !
So far my best solution has been ferment it in a probiotic brine ! Simple ! I wash it and pack it in a sterilized jar and cover it in salty water ! Leave it a couple of days out of the ref so the natural fermentation get under way ! Then put it in the ref it will stay full flavor and green for weeks ! Not to mention healthy natural way to preserve !
Love t hear any other methods keeping coriander ready for the kitchen !
This serves both for those who manage to grow more than thy can use ! And those who simply get fed up searching the supermarket for a condiment that curries simply can not substitute !
Dave
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Hi Dave and Welcome
I have fresh on tap, I just have to walk a few hundred yards from my kitchen to a Souk,
50p a bunch, sometimes like at the moment 3 bunches for a Quid.
But if I want to store a bunch, I wash and dry, wrap in kitchen paper then put into
an airtight container, keeps fresh in the fridge for a couple of weeks at least.
cheers Chewy
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Yep much better idea than all that Blumentalism :)
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Is a wonderful introduction
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Hi Dave and Welcome
I have fresh on tap, I just have to walk a few hundred yards from my kitchen to a Souk,
50p a bunch, sometimes like at the moment 3 bunches for a Quid.
But if I want to store a bunch, I wash and dry, wrap in kitchen paper then put into
an airtight container, keeps fresh in the fridge for a couple of weeks at least.
cheers Chewy
Yep fresh is the best ;) but the method Chewy describes above works for me.
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The supermarket variety that comes ready planted in a little flower pot did not seem to keep too well until I thought to put the whole thing in the refrigerator -- after that, no problem at all : seems to stay fresh and green (and not bolt) virtually for ever.
** Phil.
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Phil if I buy them pots I never have any left to place in the fridge ;D
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The supermarket variety that comes ready planted in a little flower pot did not seem to keep too well until I thought to put the whole thing in the refrigerator -- after that, no problem at all : seems to stay fresh and green (and not bolt) virtually for ever.
This was posted on 16th May, at which point the coriander was already two weeks old; it is now 13th June (almost a month later), and the coriander is still as fresh, green and unwilted as it was one day one.
** Phil.