Now, even in the winter cold, you can buy fresh green onions, but they cannot be compared with a vigorous house plant grown in summer. How to dry green onions at home, find out in a step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking dried green onions at home
- Video recipe
Fresh green onions are a tasty and healthy spice for many dishes. It is added to salads, soups, appetizers, main courses. Spicy and pungent greens have many beneficial substances and pleasant taste. For lovers of natural products, I recommend preparing fresh onions for the winter. You can save the grass for the winter in various ways. But one of the oldest and most proven methods is drying. Dried herbs have become classics for future use. Green onions are a very popular harvest that requires a minimum of time and effort.
For drying, you need to choose fresh green onions of a bright green color. If you have a vegetable garden, dacha or personal plot, then be sure to grow onions for harvesting for future use. In the cold, the dried spicy herb will bring you back to the warm hot summer, and the aroma will remind you of a pleasant time spent.
Dried green onions at home in several ways. The main ones are drying in a natural way in the air, in the oven and in a special device. The simplest and oldest method is air drying. This is a good method that does not require much effort and expense. This will require clean paper or linen. A special device for drying is not available in every home, but drying in the oven will significantly reduce the time. Today I will tell you how to preserve the grown harvest of green onions for the winter by drying them in an oven.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 219 kcal.
- Servings - Any Amount
- Cooking time - 20 minutes prep work and 2 hours for oven drying
Ingredients:
Green onions - any quantity
Step by step cooking dried green onions at home, recipe with photo:
1. Sort green onions thoroughly. By choosing luscious feathers that look healthy and strong. Only the freshest and most fragrant feather is left to dry. Thoroughly peel the selected onion from dried ends, remove unnecessary films and rotten parts of feathers. These details will spoil the quality of the product. Then wash and pat dry with a paper towel, or lay on a countertop to dry naturally. When the onion is dry, chop it finely with a sharp knife. For drying, you can use both green feathers and white parts of feathers.
2. Spread the green onions evenly on a baking sheet so that the pieces are not piled on top of each other.
3. Heat the oven to 60 degrees and place a baking sheet in it. Keep the door ajar. Dry the onions for about 2 hours. Stir it periodically to dry it evenly. The readiness of dried herb is determined as follows: rub the onion between your fingers, if it is dry and crumbles, then it is ready. Remove it from the oven and leave to cool at room temperature. Then pour it into a glass container, close the lid and store in a dark, ventilated room. If desired, dried green onion feathers can be ground into a powder with a blender.
In the same way, you can save any tasty and healthy greens for the winter.
See also the video recipe on how to dry and store green onion feathers in the future.
