Not only fruits and vegetables are harvested for the winter, but also greens. A seasoned green onion can hit hardMoreover, the hostess does not always need a large bundle from the supermarket, and sometimes 1-2 feathers are enough.
Some ways of harvesting green onions will allow everyone to choose the most suitable for themselves both for the time spent and for the desired result. Having spent 1 day on harvesting greenery, you can save a lot of money and time for a whole year.
Ways
Of course, the methods of storing green onions are different from the methods of saving leek onions, as well as onions in storage and at home and methods of storing seedlings in winter, which we talked about earlier. Let's look at them.
Fresh
Packages in which leaves are wrapped are placed in the refrigerator approximately for 15 minutes, then they are filled with leaves, tied and sent back to the refrigerator for long-term storage.
It is advisable to determine for them a place in the box for vegetables. In this form, they are not stored as long as frozen, but leaves are always fresh and ready to eat in salads.
A little more read about how to properly collect onions for harvesting for the winter, you can here - cleaning the onions before storing for the winter. And if a person has a private house and the ability to store supplies for the winter in the cellar, he will be interested in the article "storing onions in a cellar (basement)".
Tips on how to keep green onions fresh in this video:
Drying
Green onion feathers can be dried. Do it with the help of electric dryer, in the oven or in the sun (summer in hot weather).
To do this, wash the feathers, blot with a towel and cut into 5 cm pieces.
A minimum temperature is required for oven drying. about 50 degrees and a few hours with the door open.
If you dry in the oven greens, fruits or vegetables, then it must be constantly monitored, because there is a high risk that the workpiece will burn.
For drying in the sun onions spread on a baking sheet or tray and take out under direct sunlight, covering the whole structure with thin gauze (from flies). After 2 days the bow will be ready. And in the electric dryer it is harvested just like any other greens. You can read more about this method here - drying onions.
Frost
To freeze the onions cut into small pieces, spread on a cutting board in a single layer and send in the freezer for 4-5 hours. Then the greens can be shifted into a bag and take up a new batch.
But if there is no desire to mess around for so long, you can scatter fresh onions in bags or containers in advance and send them to the freezer. Read more about freezing onions here - freezing onions.
How to save green onions for the winter? How to freeze green onions and other greens in this video. We look:
Salt and starter
For salting 1 kg of chopped greens take 1 cup of salt. Everything is mixed and put in a glass jar, closed with a lid. Keep refrigerated all winter, and to use the mixture is ready in 2 weeks. About this and other ways you can read more here - storing onions at home (flat).
How to save for the winter green onion feather? You can find out how to pickle green onion feathers from the video:
In oil
This onion is good to add to soups and salads, and he is ready in 3 days.
To do this, finely chopped feathers put in a jar and pour on top so much oil so that it completely covers the greens.
Keep the mixture necessary in glass containers in the refrigerator. Before use it is worth shaking.
If, in addition to onions, put finely chopped dill, parsley, basil and any other greens in the jar, you will get fragrant salad oil.
Fundamental rules
How to prepare green onions for storage? For long storage, onions must be properly washed and removed all damaged leaves. If the greens are going to be stored fresh, then take only juicy healthy feathersand if they salt, dry or freeze - you can take damagedwhile cutting off all defects.
How to chop green onions? If the onions are harvested fresh, then cut it is not necessary. In other cases it is not recommended to grind it in a food processor, as is often done with parsley or dill. It is finely cut into pieces with a length of about 5 mm.
If the feathers are large and wide, they can first be cut lengthwise to make the pieces smaller. When cooking soup or roast, onions can be cut into 1 cm, and if the sauce is planned, then the smaller it is, the better. And only for the preparation of dried onions will require more large pieces: from 5 to 7 cm.
What store green onions? TaraIn which store onions, depends on a way of its preparation:
- at freezing stored in a bag or plastic container;
- for salting or canning in oil is best to take glass jars;
- for storage dried onions use cloth bags;
- for storage fresh use ordinary plastic bags.
Where to store green onions? Green onions are stored in the refrigerator or in the freezer.
In a private house, jars of salt or oil can also be removed. in the cellar, but in the apartment - on the glazed loggia.
Cut greens wither quickly at room temperature and deteriorate, so fresh onions should definitely be kept in the cold without air.
On how to choose the green onions and how to store it, you will learn by watching the video:
Optimal conditions and terms
At what temperature to store green onions? For fresh onions, the optimum temperature from 1 to 8 degrees. For frozen about -8, and for cans with salt or oil - from 5 to 10.
It is very important that moisture does not get onto the fresh onions. That is why, when it is prepared, the packages are put in the refrigerator, and only then they are stuffed with greens - this allows avoid condensate.
The same applies to dried onions, which are recommended to be stored in a bag of natural material - it will allow the contents "breathe"but it will not give him to damp. And salted onions and onions in oil should be stored in a dark, cool place.
What are shelf life green onions? Each method has its own terms:
- frozen - up to 1 year;
- dried - up to 2 years;
- fermented with salt - up to 6 months;
- in oil - up to 6 months;
- fresh - up to 3 months.
Green harvest
How to keep green onions fresh? As mentioned above, fresh onions are removed in a bag and stored in the refrigerator. Once every 2 weeks it should be inspected for appearance darkening and wrinkles. If at least one of the leaves starts to rot, soon all the others will join it.
And if the greens are harvested for the winter not for fresh salads, it is much easier to keep it. dry or frozen.
Fresh feathers do not have to be reserved for future use, because you can get them all the time. in 2 weeksby dropping onions in a glass of water.
In short, before harvesting, you should decide for what purpose onions decide to save. For fresh salads, it must be packaged in bags and put into the fridge, not forgetting to periodically check and throw away the spoiled leaves.
Also with fresh vegetables well combined onion in oil, which will be excellent flavored dressing. And for soups, meat and stewed vegetables, salted, frozen or dried onion is suitable - to taste, none of them in the finished dish will not differ from fresh greens.
How to grow green onions at home, you can learn from this video:
