So we’ve all been there. We get some amazing green onions that we plan to use in some cooking but for one reason or the other, we end up not using them for a few days and because we didn’t initially store them properly, we find them where we last left them in the crisper looking sad and weak.
Yes I am human and sometimes I forget to store leafy herbs properly.
Green onions are so easy to store but coincidentally I receive a delivery while I’m already in the middle of another chore (ie. gardening while it’s still not too sunny out or doing some food photography while the natural light is still there). It happens often enough because I do about five hours of physical labor throughout the day
So I’m human and I can forget to do things correctly sometimes!
But when I forget to store green onions properly, they end up looking like this:
Sad, wilty limp green onions! Aw!
But have no fear. We simply take a bowl, place the onions in there and fill it to the top with ice water. And, no, I didn’t invent this. While most people I know already do this, I’m sharing with those who haven’t heard of this technique yet.
I usually try to leave the green onions in tact for their ice bath but sometimes I cut the green onions if they’re not limp enough to fold.
After about half an hour, they’re almost good as new! I remove any of the weird looking ends and remove anything that feels gummy. But everything else, I keep and use it as a topping on the many Asian dishes I make!
