In addition to vegetables, sauce and bread, you can freeze a lot more.
1. Ginger Because of the strong taste of ginger, you usually don't need a lot of it. Keep a piece of ginger in your freezer and grate a piece off when you need it.
2. Nuts
They stay crispy for a long time if you keep them in the freezer.
3. Herbs
Sturdy herbs such as rosemary and thyme, in particular, remain beautiful if you freeze them. Vulnerable herbs such as parsley and basil are less resistant to the freezer. In some cases it will still taste good, but the leaves will look a bit wet and withered.
4. Cheese The taste of cheese deteriorates when you freeze it. So it is better not to freeze a whole piece of cheese. A bag of grated cheese suffers less when you freeze it.
5. Bananas
Freeze some ripe bananas, delicious in a smoothie or banana bread. Check out our banana bread recipe.
6. Wine
Pour the last bit of wine or champagne in an ice cube tray or bag. With this you will have an unchilled wine cold in no time next time and it is very useful for pasta sauces that require a little wine.
7. Butter
Handy when you only use half of it. You can also freeze homemade herb butter.
8. Cookie dough
Freeze cookie dough so you can make fresh cookies whenever you want. If you freeze the dough in portions, you don't have to thaw it beforehand, just put them in the oven a little longer.
9. Egg whites and yolks You cannot freeze eggs in the shell. Loose egg whites or yolks are no problem (and very useful for recipes where you only need one part). Egg yolk changes structure by freezing. You prevent this by adding 6 grams of sugar or salt to 100 grams of egg yolk. Sugar/salt lowers the freezing point, which means that the structure of the egg yolk is less affected. Read more.
10. Leftovers
Freeze leftovers. Handy, because you immediately have a quick meal at hand for a busy day. Dishes that contain a lot of dairy can curdle after freezing.
Hint
Buy labels so you can label freezer containers and bags with the date and what's inside.
Would you like to know more about freezing healthy products? Read the article in the March issue The ideal health food comes from the freezer.
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