{"id":8,"date":"2021-09-03T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-07-09T22:56:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T22:56:26","slug":"how-to-freeze-vegetables-blanch-it-before-freezing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/grocery\/how-to-freeze-vegetables-blanch-it-before-freezing\/","title":{"rendered":"How to freeze vegetables, blanch it before freezing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;\"><i>Having a constant stock of vegetables is essential to a healthy diet, but if you want to have them around when you need it (without going to the grocery store every other day, it would take a little bit of prep work).<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;\">Prolonging the shelf life of veggie<\/span><\/h2>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>F<\/b>reezing the veggie is one of the best ways to keep the freshness of the veggie and prolonging the shelf life. First don&#8217;t mind if you do some blanching!<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;\">Blanching is the key<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>S<\/b>ince vegetables have enzyme actions that are constantly changing the flavor. We would recommend blanching it before freezing it to preserve the taste and the freshness during the storage in the freezer.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>H<\/b>owever, blanch must be done just right : not under or over blanch for the best result.<\/span><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"color: #222222; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana;\">Keeping it zipped<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><span face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>O<\/b>nce you have your vegetable blanch, let it cool down and zipped it up for the freezer with a Ziplock bag.<\/p>\n<p><b>T<\/b>here you have it, keeping the vegetables fresh until you feel like going for your next grocery trip by BLANCH &amp; FREEZE ! &nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\">\n<p style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"color: #383838; font-family: verdana, helvetica; font-size: 15px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/#txtsearch\">Discover and save near me<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"color: #686868; font-family: verdana, helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;\">Search coupons, menus and savings on your next take out, dine in, meal plan in your local area at Whatmenu.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a constant stock of vegetables is essential to a healthy diet, but if you want to have them around when you need it (without going to the grocery store every other day, it would take a little bit of prep work). Prolonging the shelf life of veggie Freezing the veggie is one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/grocery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/grocery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/grocery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/grocery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/grocery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/grocery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/grocery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/grocery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/grocery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/grocery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}