How to Dry Herbs
So you have a garden full of fresh herbs. What do you want to do with them? How about
trying to dry them? Super easy and very natural, we’re going to dry them in our home.
What you need to do is get some of your fresh local herbs and here I have a nice variety, I
have some thyme, oregano and rosemary. And you’ll need some string. This could be
kitchen string, butcher’s twine, whatever you happen to have and take four or five sprigs
and just tie it up in a little bunch.
Okay. What you want to do is make sure that you give them a rinse, pat and dry. So I’m
just going to tie this up and you can hang this in your kitchen as long as it’s not too moist
or by the furnace. So what you want to do is just take your little bunch. I’m going to tie
this one right here where I can see it and you want to leave it for a couple of weeks and
just check it and see how dry it is and it might need a couple more weeks after that. So
you just keep going and testing the leaves and here I have some that I have been drying
for few weeks and you can see that they’re really nice and brittle.
And what you want to do at this point you can actually leave them whole like this.
They’re quite beautiful and then as you need them you can take them off to get that fresh
herbs flavor but you can also just have a plate here to rub them off their stems just like
this. And then what you can do once you have them all off here -- and you can leave
some of the finer stem in there too because that will break apart, so not to worry and just
take it in your fingers and just give it another little rub here. And that will get rid of some
of the finer thicker stems.
Okay, just like that and then if you have a nice little jar that you want to keep your dried
herbs in you can do that and store them for easily for six months in a nice, cool, dry, dark
place and you’ll have that fresh local herb flavor in all your cooking.
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