How To Store Basil So It Keeps It's Flavour

Hi there, I want to show you how to store basil, and it seems like a simple thing, but basil dies very quickly. I'm just going to give you a few tips. There are two ways of buying basil.

You can either buy it sort of ready picked like that, in which case, I recommend that when you keep it stored, you do so by just keeping the roots in water. So, I've got a little jug here. And if you go into a commercial kitchen, it's not uncommon just to go to the fridge and find basil like that because it will last longer.

It is just like buying flowers, really, same sort of thing. I'm going to show you a couple of other interesting ways of storing basil which I think you're going to like. Now, you going to get a little extra video here because I am going to show you how to dice basil through shift and out.

What you do is just roll it up like a sausage and then slice along like that. If you just roughly chop it, you tend to find that it bruises, but you end up with the shift and out. Now, that can be used for things like salsa verde, doesn't matter, a pea stew, whatever you want.

But the interesting thing is the stalk. There's a lot of flavor in there. I'm just going to show you how to store this by not wasting this because technically, this is also storing basil.

Just break out all the shoots like this. Then you cover it with olive oil. So, just leave it in a jar for overnight.

Just make sure you immerse everything in the preserve without it getting moldy. Stick that over there for a week or two weeks, whenever. When you come back to it, you have a beautiful basil oil.

The third way is very simple. You can buy basil in pots like this. Obviously, keep it in sunshine or just get a daylight.

You don't get sunshine in England but if you know what I mean. Just keep topping it up with water. Now, in a commercial kitchen, what tends to happen is I would leave it out so that the plant will enjoy the natural light, and at the end of the day, stick it in the fridge.

But as long as you keep it topped up with water, and possibly in a jug like that, you'll always be going to end up with fresh basil. One final way of doing it is if you have basil that has already been picked, I do find it is a good way of preserving it, you just wrap it up nice and tightly in some cling film. No moisture at all, because that will have an effect that will make it go black.

If just make a nice little delicate cling film parcel and you place that in the fridge, that will last a lot longer. So, actually, four ways of how to store basil. .