Tex's Microwave Dried Herbs 🌿. Drying herbs is a great way to preserve a bountiful harvest. Learn how quick and easy it is to do in a microwave and which herbs are best when dried. Traditionally, herbs are hung to dry.

Store dried herbs in a tightly covered container in a cool dry space away from light — with the rest of your spices would be lovely. 🙂 Here, I just thoroughly washed out and repurposed old spice containers to hold my new microwave dried herbs. That's it… Microwaving is such a quick and easy. Drying herbs will greatly extend their shelf life by removing any moisture that bacteria could use to survive. You can have Tex's Microwave Dried Herbs 🌿 using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Tex's Microwave Dried Herbs 🌿

It's 1 large of bowl of herbs.
You need 1 of Microwave.
It's 2 of sheets of kitchen paper.
It's 1 large of funnel.
Prepare 1 of airtight jar.

Compared to other drying methods—like hanging or using a low oven—the microwave produces the most potent dried herbs with the freshest flavor and the brightest color. Drying herbs microwave - nordic ware microwave corn popper. a short electromagnetic wave (longer than infrared but shorter than radio waves); used for radar and microwave ovens and for transmitting telephone, facsimile, video and data. And all you're gonna do is take a nice clean paper towel and some free sprigs of dried herb. [MUSIC] So, I've been checking my herbs after each interval. They've been in for about two minutes but I think they're ready.

Tex's Microwave Dried Herbs 🌿 step by step

Take a bowl full of herbs. My indoor basil plant was growing out of control and I had no dried basil, so the answer was obvious. I trimmed it back enough so that I ended up with almost a full 3 litre bowl (6 pints).
Now the boring bit... remove all the stems.
Next, sandwich between two sheets of kitchen paper.
Now, flatten a little with a heavy book for a few minutes, then transfer to the microwave and heat on high for 1 minute then allow to rest for 30 seconds. Heat again on high for 30 seconds and rest for 30 seconds. Keep heating for 30 seconds and resting for 30 seconds until the herbs are ready to crumble. This will take about 6-10 minutes depending on the power of your microwave..
Notice how much volume you lose once the water has left the herbs.
Break up the herbs with a mortar and pestle, or into a bowl with your hands. Leave a few leaves uncrumbled so that their flavour is preserved stronger for longer. Transfer the whole leaves into an air tight container first (I'm using a 70ml/2½ fluid ounce Kilner spice jar). Use a large funnel for the flaked herbs. Clear the spout with a skewer if necessary.
Finally, seal, label, and try to contain your disappointment at how little you made out of that big bowl full 😸.

I'm gonna go ahead and show you what you're looking. Herbs have been used for thousands of years in cooking to flavor food, as perfumes to make us smell nice, as disinfectants, to protect us against germs, as Don't dry any strong scented herbs in your microwave, the scent/taste could transfer to other herbs so that they would lose their taste/scent. Drying screens for solar herb drying are easy to make. Use this screened tray to dry herbs in the sun or in your car. Drying herbs is an economically savvy food preservation strategy, too, because fresh and dried herbs and teas demand high prices at the grocery store.