parsnips

[beattie819]

Hi First time here brilliant site. I have been given a large bag of parsnips.Cant eat them all at once and would like to freeze some. I know to blanch after paring and slicing, but wondered if i can prepare for roasting before I freeze them, ie honey, herbs? or do i do that after defrosting, pre cooking, any suggestions please.Thank you

[oldwoman]

Hello Beattie and welcome.My instinct would be to blanch and freeze only. I think it will be easier than coating them.Its sods law that half your coating will come away in the freezer.

[BBWCHATT]

http://www.goodhousekeeping.co.uk/index.php/ch atroom/topic/1155

Posted : Dec 20, 2006 11:45:44 AM Subject :
freezing parsnips
Fi - just to confirm advice from muffinqueen, parsnips work really well roasted from frozen. They need to be parboiled before, but I believe we do them for less time that potatoes - 3 or 4 minutes in the water, then open freeze. Interested to hear about spraying them with oil. We usually open freeze on freezer film then put into bags, then when we're ready to roast we put the dish of hot fat on the hob to make it smoking hot, then plunge the frozen parsnip pieces straight in and turn so that they're coated. They need less time than potatoes - about 40 minutes usually does it. We still have some home grown from last year's bumper harvest in our freezer, and that's what we'll be having on Christmas day.

[willowman]

Curried parsnip soup is lovely, and can be frozen. Probably find a recipe on cooks.com.

[beattie819]

Thanks very much for the advice, I will spend the rest of Sunday morning doing parsnips, at least it will keep me out of mischief!

[idalovett]

I blanch parsnips then freeze them into sensible sized portions. Once de-thawed I can bake them for a shorter period of time or add honey or anything else. Freezing cooked parsnips did not work but partially cooking them and then freezing them did work so I do this now a lot.