How to freeze sorrel for the winter in the freezer at home: recipes

Preparing sorrel for freezing

Attention! It is best to collect sorrel for freezing in May-June. During these months, the vegetable crop is very young and does not contain a large amount of oxalic acid.

First of all, we sort the leaves. We immediately exclude damaged and rotten specimens; we only need juicy, elastic leaves. Also, when sorting, we remove grass and large debris that accidentally gets into the bunch.

Now the leaves need to be washed and dried on towels. In order for the greens to dry, you can put them in an empty glass and fluff them up. Drops of water with this method will flow down. Once the sorrel is completely dry, it is ready for further freezing.

No matter which of the following freezing recipes you choose, the pre-processing for this vegetable will be the same.

How to freeze sorrel: recipes

How to freeze fresh sorrel

Most often, the tender leaf part of the plant is frozen, but, if desired, the stems can also be used. It is not recommended to freeze fresh sorrel with whole leaves; it is better to chop it.

The sorrel is cut into strips and placed in bags for freezing, from which as much air as possible is then removed. “Sausages” with green slices are put into the freezer for storage.

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How to blanch sorrel for the winter

To do this, put the chopped leaves in a colander and lower it directly into a pan of boiling water. This manipulation takes exactly 1 minute. After the specified time has passed, the colander is removed from the water and the excess liquid is allowed to drain thoroughly.

Blanched sorrel can be frozen in a bag, rolled into a tight tube, or in silicone molds. For the last option, the vegetable is laid out in molds and compacted tightly with your fingers. This preparation is placed in the freezer for several hours for pre-freezing. After the greens have set, the green briquettes are removed from the molds and transferred to containers or bags.

Sorrel ice cubes

Finely chopped sorrel is placed in ice trays and filled with a small amount of water. Forms with greens are frozen. After the water is completely frozen, the ice cubes are removed and poured into bags.

Such sorrel ice cubes can be used in cosmetology.

Sorrel puree for the winter

Sorrel for making puree is ground in a meat grinder.The finished puree is placed in small ice trays and frozen. After the initial freezing, the sorrel briquettes are removed from the mold and poured into a separate bag.

Freezing sorrel in oil

For this method, you can use either vegetable or butter.

In the first option, chopped leafy vegetables are placed in ice trays and filled with vegetable oil.

The butter must first be thawed. Do not destroy the structure of the oil by heating it over a fire or in the microwave. Soft butter is mixed with a sufficiently large amount of chopped herbs, and then the whole mass is laid out in ice molds.

The completed forms, in both cases, are sent to the freezer for a day, and after thorough freezing, they are removed and transferred to containers.

How to store and use frozen sorrel

Before putting the workpiece in the freezer for storage, do not forget to label it, since frozen sorrel briquettes can easily be confused with other frozen greens.

Frozen vegetables are stored in the freezer until fresh harvest. Sorrel does not require preliminary defrosting before cooking.