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- Hey, Jerry James Stone here with a super easy
how to for you to nail.
So if you like asparagus, asparagus season,
it's awesome, right?
It's like delicious, it's a very short, short span.
So if you have a favorite farmer that you get
your asparagus from, this quick little video shows you
how to freeze that asparagus so it lasts for up to a year.
A full freaking year.
Like and, if you have a phobia of blanching,
this is the recipe for you.
I show you how to do it with just steaming,
so let's get to it, okay?
So to freeze asparagus without blanching it,
you're gonna use a steam basket,
and you're gonna bring the water underneath to a boil,
and then you're gonna fill it in with your asparagus.
Now the one disadvantage to steaming it versus actually
blanching it, is you can't salt it while it cooks.
Okay, that's looking pretty good there.
So the reason that we're steaming this before
we freeze the asparagus is the cooking of the asparagus
will actually preserve not only the color,
it also preserve the texture once it's frozen.
If you don't do this you're gonna have some
pretty gross asparagus.
One disadvantage to steaming versus blanching is you can't
salt the water and get that flavor into the asparagus.
But one advantage is you actually use less water.
So the next thing you wanna do is take your cooked asparagus
and transfer it to an ice bath.
So it'll soak here in the ice bath, stop from cooking,
and then we'll freeze it, or prepare it for freezing.
I suggest leaving it in the ice bath for about
a couple minutes to fully make sure that the asparagus
stops cooking all the way through.
Okay so we put our asparagus in the ice bath,
to cool it off and stop it from cooking.
And once you do that you just wanna transfer it
to a colander and fully dry the asparagus,
to prepare it for freezing.
Now you can skip the step that I'm doing right now,
but I highly recommend doing it.
So you can throw the chilled asparagus, once it's dry,
in a freezer bag, but it'll all stick together.
If you do this next step it won't.
So what you're gonna do is place the asparagus spears
on a baking sheet just separating them a little bit,
just a little bit of room,
and we're gonna flash freeze them.
We're gonna put them in the freezer for just a couple hours
and freeze them apart.
By doing this then when you add them to a bag,
they actually won't stick together.
So it'll be a lot easier for you to take out
as much asparagus as you actually want from the freezer.
So I recommend doing this.
It takes a little bit more effort,
but I think in the long run, it's totally worth it.
Okay, so we've flash froze the asparagus.
As you can see they don't, not gonna stick together now.
So now it's just time to put them into a freezer bag.
You don't have to do this flash freezing step, like I said.
But it definitely makes it easier to use the,
the asparagus down the road.
Asparagus will last this way for about a year actually.
That's it, super easy right?
Now the one pitfall I said, as I mentioned,
is when you use this method you don't have that opportunity
to get the salt into the asparagus,
like when you, when you blanch it.
But outside of that, it's super easy to do,
and you can have frozen asparagus in your freezer,
for up to a year, using this method.
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