Spicy "cigars"

I have long been going to share my invention with members of the forum. Yes, yes, I spin cigars, although I have never smoked or smoke. How did you come to this life? And all from my universal laziness. I'm a lazy person. It will be about spices, their fast processing, convenient storage and economical use all year round.
I used to dry dill, parsley and basil. Then she began to store in plastic containers with salt. Then finely chopped spicy herbs were stored in plastic containers in the freezer. With this storage method, you need to open the frozen container lid, take a pinch of herbs and sprinkle on the dish. With this method, the greens instantly melted from the warmth of the hands and exactly half of the greens remained on the fingers. Afterwards, hands stained with greens were rinsed with water. At the same time, half of the greenery was washed down the drain. Disorder!
Now I cook spicy herbs very quickly and cleanly in the form of spicy cigars. Greens wash and dry from drops in a manual centrifuge-decock dryer, after placing the greens in an organza bag. Very fast and convenient. I tear the delicate leaves of greenery from the stalks. Leaves separately, petioles separately. Then I put the leaves in a new strong plastic bag. and start spinning cigars. The leaves knock down to the bottom and spin like a "sausage" in the bag. From each rolling, the "sausage" becomes narrower, and the leaves are denser. The whole process of spinning one cigar now takes me no more than 5-8 minutes. When I see that rolling the "cigar" no longer decreases in size, then I additionally pack the tightly rolled "cigar" in a food packaging film. Such "cigars" take up very little space in the refrigerator, they are easy to store, very convenient to use and, most importantly, with this storage method, 100% of all greens are used to sprinkle the dish, since your hands do not get dirty at all! What do they do with a new cigar? That's right, the tip is cut off! And before using the spicy "cigar" for the first time, we simply cut off the end with pieces of polyethylene from one end. Then, holding the "cigar" over the plate, which we need to sprinkle with herbs, we quickly cut the frozen herbs with a sharp knife into the finest slices. And hands do not get dirty and there is no waste of greenery. It turns out very quickly, beautifully and economically. I also want to add. I used to make purely "monocigars" - only dill cigars, parsley cigars, basil cigars. To sprinkle with herbs the same boiled potatoes, I had to pick up three cigars. Now, in addition to "monocigars" I also make "mixigars" from a mixture of dill, parsley and basil. The latter turned out to be very convenient to use. She taught her friends how to spin cigars. Now we tell each other how many and what kind of "cigars" we wound for the winter. And here is a photo of a "cigar" made from parsley.



This is a slice of a parsley cigar. I tried to take a closer picture.



Here are meat dumplings from a three-clone Taper's dumplings, sprinkled with small cuts from a parsley "cigar".



All! Live with joy, cook with pleasure, eat with gusto!

[Alevtina]

Alevtina, thanks for the new way! She also dried and frozen. We must try this method while the greens are there. I just didn't understand, but twist the dried greens, which the leaves have already separated from the sticks, also in the dryer? or with your hands? in short, I didn't understand

Greens were washed from dirt. dried from drops in a manual centrifuge, and not in a thermo-dryer! Pour fresh juicy leaves into a new plastic bag, well, further as described. All my friends now store greens only in the form of cigars.

Great idea with storage and use! Thanks for sharing!

[Creamy]

Creamy, I admire your ingenuity!

[Creamy]

Creamy, this is the most important place "Then I put the leaves in a new strong plastic bag. And I start twisting the" cigars. " I do not understand. More details for those in the tank.
It's a bunch of leaves in a bag, right? And how to proceed further? What does it mean "I start to twist" cigars "" - what actions should be done? Inside the bag or outside?
An interesting way, I will definitely try it after the explanations.

Or try to roll greens into cellophane with a dolmer? or it will be too confusing - mini-cigars ..

[svetta]

svetta, we have a tank with you not one for two by accident Alevtina, we did not understand ...

we have a tank with you not one for two by accident

can i go with you? three tankmen, three funny friends, a car crew ..... wait for an explanation?

It seems to me that the greens are poured into the bag and the "cigar" is formed by it, that is, twist all the way. At the end of molding, the "cigar" is pulled out of the bag and wrapped in plastic wrap. I understand so.

[it also forms a "cigar", that is, twist all the way]

It seems to me that the greens are poured into the bag and it also forms a "cigar", that is, twist all the way... At the end of molding, the "cigar" is pulled out of the bag and wrapped in plastic wrap. I understand so.

Exactly - HOW ???

[svetta]

svetta, lotoslotos, Piano, "Four tankers and a dog", I am the fourth, the dog's place is vacant!
Indeed, it is very interesting, but how to cut so that the film does not get there? Where to store it, in the freezer?

Come on, I’m for the dog, how is it that they "go down to the bottom and spin in the bag with a" sausage ". Each roll of the" sausage "becomes narrower, and the leaf is denser."?

Exactly - HOW ???

Twist the tube through the bag approximately like a flagellum made of dough, only with effort and through the bag.

How is it that they "get knocked down to the bottom and spin in a bag with a" sausage. "

I realized that this is how everything happens.

[Ipatiya]

So, the places in the tank are occupied, even the dogs Ipatiya is trying to explain, but Shoto hardly reaches me (we have +36, make a discount).
So, we are forming a new crew and waiting for Creamy ???

Twist the tube through the bag approximately like a flagellum made of dough, only with effort and through the bag.

I realized that this is how everything happens.

Everything is correct and it happens1 simply and quickly!
I ran into the yard for leaves, tore off a bush. Already wrapped up a cigar and took a picture. now I will upload pictures.

I didn't understand either
How to twist? Where? in the package? so with cellophane will crumble? In a centrifuge? Will not work.
Can you take pictures in stages? For the idea itself was pleasant.

She ripped off the poor, who knows what bush. leaves are tough. but we need to see the process cleanly.
This poor fellow fell under the experience.

then shake the leaves in the bag like this. so that they settle to the bottom of the bag.


Further, the process of twisting the bag into a tube begins, winding the excess bag onto a still poorly formed loose sausage-cigar, simultaneously expelling excess air from the bag.


we roll, crushing our leaves and wrap around the crumpled leaves (leaves inside the package!)
package length


then unwind and shake the bag. The leaves take up less space and are denser. then again we begin to twist the bag with leaves tightly, while expelling excess air. This is the second twist.

And there can be as many of these twists until you see that your cigar sausage no longer decreases in size. Here you should stop. and a tightly wound bag with leaves inside must be very tightly swaddled with a wrapping film, so that the bag does not unwind, and the cigar is tightly rolled up and less frozen in the freezer and dried. It is not necessary to remove the received cigar from the package! It is stored in it.After all, we do not have Cuban cigars made of tobacco leaves large in area, but parsley or dill needles.
This is what I got from the hard leaves of an unknown bush.

I continue.

Something pictures are not loaded well.

taaax, well, now I understand.

ABOUT! Really interesting idea! Thank you!

[Creamy]

Creamy, thank you twist master class! It seems to me that such a "cigar" is obtained due to the fact that small leaves cling to each other.

Then, holding the "cigar" on a plate, which we need to sprinkle with herbs, we quickly cut the frozen herbs with a sharp knife into the finest slices. And the hands do not get dirty and there is no waste of greenery. It turns out very quickly, beautifully and economically.

This point is a bit confusing. Cutting with a knife? But what about the cling film that wrapped the "cigar"?

Agaaaa, "there it is, Mikhalych !!!"
Well, now I'll get out of the tank, make room for the next comers. But they, rather, will not be.
Alya, thanks for MK!

This is a ready-made cigar, not yet wrapped in cling film for storage.

And this is a slice. the best result is from a bread knife with cloves
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do not take out the finished cigar from the plastic bag. wrap the top with a film. we store in the freezer. When using for the first time, unwind a piece of packaging film from one end of the cigar. cut off the tip of the cigar with a bread knife with cloves. move from the tip 3-4 mm of the packaging film along with the bag, quickly and finely cut and pan the greens onto our dish. Then, with a piece of packaging film unwound from one end, we again wrap the cigar and place it in the freezer for storage.

[Alevtina]

Alevtina, thanks for MK! A great way to store greens, now that's exactly what I will do.

[Creamy]

Creamy, I would not have thought of this! I have already prepared to buy vacuum containers.

Since the cigar is frozen, it is very easy to cut with a bread knife in small strips over the dish. It is very easy to twist cigars, convenient and economical to store. After that, you will be too lazy to cut and store greens in other ways. It has been checked by me and my friends for several years. I especially draw your attention to the fact that it is more profitable to twist a mix of parsley, dill and basil cigars in one package.

Girls, thank you all for your kind words. I will also add that at the beginning of the season I grind the soft juicy stalks of dill in a blender chopper. I freeze and then use it in the first courses. And when the stalks of dill become hard and hollow inside, then I cut them with pruning shears in the form of long pasta for fish and meat broths. When they give the broth their flavor, I take out the "dill pasta" with a slotted spoon and discard them. Sliced ​​"dill pasta" I dry on a baking sheet by natural air drying, store in a canvas bag.

[Creamy]

CreamyThank you for a very useful master class. I just didn't understand why to wrap the sausage in a plastic bag with a film. Is one plastic bag not enough? Or is it for something you need?

The cigar doesn't sell. and less greens freeze and dry through the layers of the film. (remember how clothes are dried in the cold). It is necessary to sprinkle potatoes in winter with spicy herbs, you take out a cigar, turn away and unwind a piece of film from one end. The greens were cut over a plate and the open cut of the cigar was closed again with a piece of film that was previously unwound. and back to the freezer.

[Creamy]

Creamy, Tomorrow I will try. The idea is great!

[Alevtina]

Alevtina, Thank you! We will try!

I will wait for your reports. I wonder what kind of herbs people will come up with to add for an exquisite bouquet. Eh, I don't have a vegetable garden, and therefore the set is standard.

A small part of my spice blanks. Here and dill, parsley, different basilicas, their mixes, mint.



This is a favorite mix for almost all dishes.



The questions are often asked: "Are the greens cut with the package?" No, the bag is not cut along with the herbs. Here is the "cigar" already open on one side.Since the contents of the cigar are frozen, the plastic bag or zip bag easily slides over the frozen cigar, and the polyethylene easily slides away from the cut edge of the "cigar"



After I have crumbled the herbs into the dishes, I close the working end of the "cigar" with a small zip-bag and intercept it with an elastic band for reliability. Here are the gum in my kitchen in honor. Recently I bought a new pack of banking rubber bands.



They put a small zip-bag over a cigar and intercepted it with an elastic band. Nothing is done to the gum in the freezer, and the cigar is ready for storage. Due to their small volume, cigars fit easily between the bags in the freezer. But the best, compact and easy-to-find storage method turned out to be in a tetra bag from under the juice, I store all cigars in it in an upright position, that is, standing. pulled the tip of the cigar, pulled it out, used it, and again put it in a standing position. It is better to store a tetra package with green cigars on the first line of the freezer box or along the side lines, I store a tetra package with cigars in the front corner of the freezer, it's more convenient, I just opened the drawer and immediately took a cigar, you don't have to look for anything for a long time.

And I also keep sorrel like that ...

[Creamy]

Creamy, Yeah, the topic is so many years old and I'm not in the subject
As soon as I didn’t store the greens, I also went through all the methods that you listed, recently I put the package in a rectangle in the spare parts, but it’s not always convenient to stitch it, he tries to hide inside the freezer ...
And I will take this method into service, I feel I will like it!
Thank you very much !!!! My level of traveling housewife is mastering your Lifehacks, growing by leaps and bounds !!!!!!!!!!

[Oroma]

Oroma, OlgaI used to keep sorrel too, eh, now the doctor forbade me

Kokoschka, Lily, I transferred all my friends to the cigar method of storing green tea. Kuma often shares greens from the dacha with me. And now, in order not to twist a new small cigar, I increase the diameter of the old cigar. Here I really like to drink mint milk. Today I received three stalks of mint. I peeled off the mint leaves. She took out an unwashed mint cigar. I unrolled the plastic bag around the frozen cigar. Into an untwisted bag, at the bottom of which there is a round cigar, I threw today's peeled mint leaves, distributed them as evenly as possible along the entire length of the cigar, and rolled the cigar with fresh leaves on the table several times. The cigar has become thicker in diameter. Then she wrapped the cigar bag several times around the cigar. That is, I did not take the cigar out of the bag at all, and quickly and my hands were clean. All! This procedure of rolling the cigar with fresh leaves took no more than a minute. Lilia and you try to experiment for the sake of getting one of your flat zip-bag with green stuff and without taking the greens out of the bag, try to tightly roll the greens in a sausage - cigar method, wrap the excess bag around the newly-minted cigar. If your flat zip bag is very tightly packed with herbs, try spreading it over two cigars. At the beginning of the journey, I kept a lot of skinny cigars and every time I received another bundle of greens from the kuma, I began to twist a new cigar.Now I just add greens to the untwisted cigar bag, roll a new portion onto the body of the cigar and wrap the already thickened cigar again with my own bag. that's why elastic bands are comfortable. He took off the rubber band from the cigar, then put it on again, and nothing unwinds and you can always add the cigar.

[Alevtina]

Alevtina, great! I'll try! Now I know how to save the greens!
Whatever the topic is a continuous creative extraordinary approach!

[Creamy]

Creamy, Alya, do you ride the stems like that too?
I bought and today I'm going to smoke some greens



Creamy, Alevtina, I wound the cigars Dill, the Parsley cigar and the Basil cigar, as well as small cigar stalks. Very little space, class. Now I want to buy later and make a Keanza cigar.

[Kokoschka]

Kokoschka, Lily, well done, mistress, ready for winter!

Kokoschka, Lilia, well done, mistress, ready for winter!

I liked it so much! What methods have I not tried. everything is not convenient! And this is a straight Lifehack, as young people say!

Alya, brilliant. However, like everything with you. Haven't seen this topic before. I will take on arms

I am posting a photo of a spicy cigar, 1/3 of the original length remains. This is a photo as proof that the bag is not cut when cutting a cigar. the bag slides very easily over the frozen cigar.

Very, very interesting! SPb. I will definitely try, but already in sl. year.

Has anyone other than the author got accustomed to this splash?

[radalina3]

radalina3, I have! Today I will cheat with Kinza in a company with parsley, dill, celery cigars!

try to experiment for the sake of getting one of your flat zip-bag with green stuff and without removing the greens from the bag, try to roll the greens tightly into a sausage - the cigar method

Alevtina, do you mean to roll frozen greens into a cigar? Do you need to defrost it first? And the quality will not suffer?

[*Karma]

*Karma, Ludmila, cigars are spinning from whole tobacco leaves, and cigarettes are made from small tobacco crumbs, this is their difference. ... Throw your frozen greens into a new, better zip bag. Already in the new package, try to roll it in slightly. From a warm table, your frozen greens around the edges will slightly thaw and become plastic just as much as we need to roll a cigar. Complete defrosting is not necessary, otherwise we will get not a cigar, but a green icicle.

otherwise, we get not a cigar, but a green icicle

- smiled .....
Thank you. I'll try. I usually freeze cut greens in plastic containers, but get them ....

open the frozen container lid, take a pinch of herbs and sprinkle on the dish

It will turn out rather like Ilmira:

it is much more convenient to pack such cigarettes from cut greens - this is 100% PATAMUS (!)

[Kokoschka]

Kokoschka, SPb. I'll take note

I'm driving alone in a tank!
So, when we start cutting a cigar, we first cut off the tip of the bag? It is a pity that I saw Temka late. Just (just a few days ago) I brought the last parsley from the dacha. I also want to try a new storage method. I wash my greens, cut them finely, dry them a little on trays (from moisture), freeze them on them, and then put them in a bag with a lock, squeeze out the air. I'm comfortable! I take out the package, open the lock, take the herbs with a spoon (in soup or for salad), stir with the same spoon (soup or salad). I close the bag, squeeze out the air. All! Hands are clean.