Modern housewives came up with a million ways storage of vegetables for the winter.
Garlic, for example, is stored in jars, in boxes, and in braids, but frozen garlic has the longest shelf life.
is he well kept in the usual freezer compartment of the refrigerator and does not take up much space there.
Can I freeze garlic for the winter in the freezer?
Learn from our articles on how to store garlic in the cellar, how to save garlic at home, including the storage of winter garlic in an apartment.
Advantages and disadvantages
Garlic freeze is often used by hostesses to store it. This method has both pros and cons. Namely:
pros:
- garlic retains antibacterial properties;
- preserves beneficial trace elements;
- stored longer than in any other way;
- ready to use right away.
Minuses:
- loses a bit of flavor;
- taste is not as pronounced as that of fresh;
- after defrosting it loses its appearance, it "spreads".
The pros and cons overlap each other, with the result that each housewife herself will appreciate expediency garlic frosts. An alternative could be such a method of preserving garlic for the winter, as drying it for seasoning using household appliances or fresh air.
Ways
Garlic freeze:
Wholly untreated
Can I freeze the garlic in the freezer completely? This method is sufficiently applied. seldom.
If it is decided to resort to freezing whole heads of garlic, they just need to be folded in plastic bags. These bags are placed in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator.
Peeled slices
This method is preferable to the previous one. Garlic is frozen already cleaned, after removing it from the freezer ready for use in cooking dishes, sauce, etc.
Garlic mass
A good option to freeze garlic. Garlic twist in a meat grinder and freeze in containers. If necessary, remove the container from the freezer, cut the garlic mass with a knife as much as necessary. The container with the remaining mass is placed back in the freezer.
Did you know that for garlic freezing even exist special fixtures? About one of them in this video:
Training
Garlic for storage must first prepare:
- after harvest process headsby cutting off the stems, the root system;
- sort out. For freezing, you can use those garlic heads that are not suitable for fresh storage. If the damage is non-critical, you can separate the unusable slices and discard them. This is possible, since garlic is rarely frozen completely, it is still taken apart;
- to clear slices from the husk;
- grind upif storage is planned in the form of frozen mass.
Where better to freeze garlic? It does not make any difference whether garlic will be frozen in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator or in a separate freezer compartment. Garlic is not as fragile as Bulgarian pepper, for example. Nothing will happen to him even if the bags are packed tightly into the freezer container.
What is freezing garlic at home? It is better to freeze garlic:
- in plastic bags;
- in plastic containers (especially if it is garlic mass).
Virtually any small ones will do. plastic capacity. You can freeze garlic on substrates by wrapping them cling film.
The way to freeze garlic mass in ice cakes in this video:
Instruction
How to freeze garlic for the winter? At what temperature freeze?
It is maintained in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator and in any freezer. At this temperature, garlic will last for a long time. will not lose useful properties and will be ready to eat immediately after defrosting.
Before freezing garlic in the freezer, you need to do a number of steps:
- Process the garlic: to separate the unsuitable slices, choose intact.
- Clear garlic cloves from the husk.
- Put them in plastic bagsif you plan to freeze whole slices.
- Grind in a meat grinder and fold the mass into plastic containers if it is decided to freeze the garlic as a mass.
- Place the bags or containers in the freezer.
Better to take small containers for freezing garlic mass and little ones plastic bags for freezing cloves. It is extremely practical. Freezing garlic in small portionsit is more convenient to use it.
Shelf life
If choosing other storage methods, always there is a riskthat the garlic does not survive the prescribed period, then it will accurately lie for the entire recommended storage period during freezing.
Thus, garlic is suitable for freezing for the winter. This method makes it possible to save garlic longerthan any other. Disadvantages method advocates the loss of garlic form and shape after defrosting.
However, when freezing garlic mass, this drawback is not relevant at all. Freezing garlic will save even varieties that are not suitable for long term storage fresh.
On the method of freezing ground garlic and untreated cloves, as well as various ways to store garlic at home in this video:
