Cabbage, one of the most versatile vegetables around, even coming in flower form! But today, we want to talk to you about the main, and let’s be fair, delicious freezing cooked cabbage of cabbage. How long can I freeze my cabbage for?
How long should you cook a frozen cabbage? Can You Freeze Raw Cabbage Without Blanching? Is it Better to Freeze Cabbage Rolls Cooked or Uncooked? You can do so much with cabbage, you can have cabbage soup, cabbage stew, boil it and have it with a lovely chicken dinner plate, turn it into coleslaw, put it in a salad, sautee it and turn it into a flavorsome sidedish, stick it in a stirfry. There’s not much you cannot do with cabbage.
But, unless you grow your own cabbage or pluck it right from the local farm, there is a chance it will not have as long of a life as you’d wish. Most of the time it’s hard to use up the whole cabbage before it goes bad. We freeze so many things these days, why not cabbage? But, can you freeze cabbage, most vegetables that we freeze already come frozen, so how can you know what can and can’t be frozen and how to do it correctly, so your food will have a long life span? That’s what we will look at today. Let’s find out how to best methods for freezing cabbage, the most versatile vegetable of all. Frozen cabbage can be very easy to work with later.
Before freezing you should consider a few things about cabbages. First of all, you want to care for your cabbage, it’s an easy to care for food, with a decent fridge life and a decent freezer life also. Whether your cabbage is shredded, whole or sliced, doesn’t matter, all that matters is that you store your cabbage or cabbage leaf in an airtight manner, to prevent bacterial growth. There are many ways to seal cabbage airtight, you could use the cellophane method, just make sure you ensure there are no tears or gaps, you could be a little more daring and vacuum seal it, or you could use food wraps, there are even organic food wrap options available if you wanted to use something more eco-friendly. Cabbage will usually last for up to 5 days in the refrigerator, so if you are planning on keeping it for longer, it would be wise to freeze it.