Basil Ice Cubes
Too many fresh herbs and you don’t know what to do with them??? How about making these Basil Ice Cubes! Freeze them in an ice cube tray for use later in soups, stews and other dishes.
Every year we grow our own fresh herbs on the back deck. It’s so great when you are cooking you simply go out on to the deck and pick the fresh herbs you need for whatever you are creating in the kitchen! We love it! They are so easy to grow and it’s economical too.
Fresh herbs can be so expensive but growing your own over summer is a great way to go. Sometimes you have an abundance of them but freezing your herbs for use later will help you through the fall and winter. We hate to see them do to waste at the end of the season and this is a great way to preserve them.
Recipe
Large bunch of basil or other herbs, chopped
Ice cube tray
Water
Fill each cube with 1-2 tsp. of fresh herbs and fill with water. Freeze in the ice cube tray. Pop-out the cubes and place them in a Ziploc bag. Return them to the freezer. Now your tray is ready to go again.
Comments & Reviews
Jill says
What a great idea! The dill in our garden needs to be harvested and I was wondering what to do with it. It’s so potent that a very little goes a long way.
Noshing with the Nolands says
Tell me how it goes Jill with the dill. Should work just fine.
Jill says
DOH! Chopped down one of the plants, got it all plucked off the stems, only to find that we don’t have any ice cubes trays!!!
Noshing with the Nolands says
Off to Stupid Store you go!!
Saskia says
Fantastic idea! Will definitely give this a try. These would be great for cooling down the kid’s soups too, and they’d end up with a little herby bonus when the ice-blocks have melted!
Noshing with the Nolands says
That is a great idea. My daughter is always putting ice cubes in her soup.
Christine @ The Pantry Drawer says
Great idea! Definitely going to try this… I always end up throwing away SO much basil…
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J-Ray says
Great idea! I will do this with Mint and lime juice to serve with club soda.
Sra says
Where I live, basil is hard to grow. Sometimes I find it in the grocery but always in huge bunches, and I never buy it because it wilts very easily and I’d never be able to store it.
I bring out the ice trays tomorrow! And then I look for some basil – bet I won’t find it now that I have a way to preserve it!
Peter @Feed Your Soul says
where do you get your ideas. fascinating and great shot.
[email protected] says
This is my second season of this and it’s a big hit! It makes soups in the winter taste great. Guys, it’s the easiest points you can get for kitchen work.
Noshing with the Nolands says
My daughter used all of our ice cubes up already to cool her soup off. She loved them with the added flavor!!
Kirsten says
Tara,
Thanks for allowing me to include this in my ‘what to do when you’ve got a bunch of fresh herbs’ round up!
Tara Noland says
Thank you Kirsten for doing the round up!