on Oct 27, 2021, Updated Jun 05, 2024
Why You’ll Love Herb Cubes
This is the perfect recipe to preserve an excess of fresh herbs, whether they’re on their last good day in your fridge or growing in an over-abundance in your garden. All you need is olive oil and an ice cube tray 🧊. Here, fresh herbs of any variety are frozen in olive oil, which conserves their bright, fragrant flavor. Come mid-winter, or a dreary sunless day, just open the freezer, and take out an herb cube to upgrade any meal 💥. I especially love to use these cubes for sautéing vegetables, fish, poultry, and meat, adding to soups, dips, and marinades, and using them to make pesto 🪴.
How to Prepare Herb Cubes
🚿 Wash and thoroughly dry the herbs. 🔪 Roughly chop the herbs and distribute them across the wells of an ice cube tray. 🫗 Top each well with olive oil until the herbs are submerged. ❄️ Place the tray in the freezer and leave until fully frozen through. 🍳 Thaw a cube before you use it, or simply pop it in a hot pan and enjoy.
Variations and Substitutions For Herb Cubes
Best Served With
You can’t go wrong serving herby olive oil for dipping alongside crusty fresh bread 🍞. My Cold Cucumber Soup 🥒 calls for olive oil and dill. Why not make some dill herb cubes and store them in the fridge to help this soup come together even quicker? These Greek Lemon Potatoes 🥔 go perfectly with oregano olive oil cubes. Use a cube as the base to a simple vinaigrette and use liberally on a simple salad 🥗. Pop a cube into a pan and combine with hot, freshly cooked pasta. Perfection 👌.
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