Vegetable preservation : DEEPFREEZE

Preparation

• Remove less edible parts
• Wash

Cutting

Frozen vegetables taste as fresh as before they were frozen, as long as no defreezing is done before cooking. It is therefore important to cut the vegetables up into usable slices before freezing them.

Vegetable	Brocoli flower	Carrot/Turnip/broccoli stem	cabbage/ chinese lettuce	garlic sprout	pumpkin
Suggested shape	flower	slice	piece	piece	cubic prism
Suggested size (mm)	d=35	h=5	W=20	L=50	a=50
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Drying

Vegetable slices can be dried with a microwave :

Exception :

• Extremly thin vegetables
  • like garlic sprout pieces
  • should be dried by hot wind
    • which can be generated by a hairdryer or an oven with fan.
• Certain vegetables are best frozen cooked
  • Pumpkin

Cooling

Vegetables should be cooled rapidly, first under room temperature, then in refriegerator, until properly packaged for freezing

Cool rapidly to avoid oxidation !

Freezing

• \(T<-15\ C \degree \)
• plastic sachet > freezer bag