How to freeze zucchini for winter

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   First prepare the zucchini for their subsequent freezing. Use any zucchini. They can be young or mature, large or small, with or without seeds. The only thing is, do not use damaged zucchini or sluggish ones, you can work with the rest. Wash the zucchini thoroughly and wipe them dry with a towel. If you use young zucchini or with a thin peel, then it does not need to be cleaned. Otherwise, remove the skin with a vegetable peeler.

2. Step 2:

   

   Now choose a form for freezing zucchini. To a greater extent, it is determined by what is subsequently supposed to be cooked from this vegetable. These can be circles, cubes, plates, hollow halves for their subsequent stuffing. I suggest cutting the zucchini into cubes or bars. This type of slicing is suitable for stews, soup, sate and other vegetable dishes. It is important if you use zucchini with seeds, remove them (they are usually found in large zucchini).

3. Step 3:

   

   The cubes turned out to be about 1cm x 1 cm in size. This is the optimal size (for the selected dishes that will be prepared with them later), you can cut a little larger. Sliced zucchini should also be soaked with paper towels to remove excess moisture that the zucchini emit.

5. Step 4:

   

   Next, divide the zucchini billet into several portions. Their number depends on how many zucchini and what size you cook, or if you make several different types of slicing.

6. Step 5:

   

   Arrange all portions in clean, dry containers with a tight lid, special bags designed for freezing food, vacuum bags. Putting the pieces of zucchini in a bag, gently squeeze out excess air, close the bags. If you put them in thin ordinary plastic bags, then put them in 2 bags at once, since they can easily break (they become more fragile under the influence of low temperatures). Then put the zucchini in the freezer.

7. Step 6:

   

   If you freeze zucchini in containers like me, then taking out the cubes of the vegetable from the container, the "zucchini bar" is often extracted (completely), but do not worry, putting it in a plastic bag, and making a few strong hand presses, the bar will easily be divided into cubes.