Author: Ivan Red Jr.
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Last Updated:
August 08, 2022
Dill occupies an honorable place in cooking as a fragrant seasoning. This surprisingly useful and fragrant plant is also called the “grass of youth”, because dill prolongs the youth of the body, has a great effect on the digestive system, provides us with a blooming and fresh look.
Dill occupies an honorable place in cooking as a fragrant seasoning. This surprisingly useful and fragrant plant is also called the “grass of youth”, because dill prolongs the youth of the body, has a great effect on the digestive system, provides us with a blooming and fresh look.
Even very heavy foods (meat, mushrooms, eggs), thanks to dill, break down much faster. Dill cleanses the stomach of the remnants of fat. Dill increases appetite and helps to normalize metabolism. Dill saves from insomnia, promotes skin healing, and calms the nervous system.
Summer is exactly the time when you can prepare dill: dry, freeze or pickle. This should be done if you have the opportunity, as summer dill from the garden is much healthier than the dill that you will buy in supermarkets in the winter.
Salting dill is very simple: it is enough to have fresh dill, salt and small jars with lids. Store pickled dill in the refrigerator and use as needed. Remember that when adding salted dill to a dish, you automatically add salt with dill. Therefore, properly regulate the amount of salt that you add to the dish, taking into account the salt in the dill.
Recipes with fresh dill
Step 1
For salting, we need fresh dill (3 bunches), a knife, a kitchen board, salt (100 grams), a jar with a lid, a pusher.
Step 2
Wash and dry dill. Cut off thick stems. We won't need them. These stems can be used to ferment or pickle vegetables (they can be frozen separately, and taken out and used in the recipe at the right time).
Step 3
Finely chop the dill greens.
Step 4
In a dry jar, put in layers: 2 tablespoons of dill, 1 teaspoon of salt.
Step 5
Each double layer (dill-salt) is lightly crushed with a pusher to compact the mass and slightly release the juice.
Step 6
In this way, fill the jar to the end.
Step 7
Close the lid and send the jar to the refrigerator for storage. Salted dill is ready.