Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: cadalot on November 06, 2014, 09:39
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I have an excess of beetroots and not enough jars to pickle them all so can I freeze them and if so is it better with skins on or off?
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I would be tempted to clamp them.
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I leave mine in the ground in the winter and dig them up as needed. Where you are cadalot that should work fine I would have thought.
If there is a hard spell of freezing weather I bring some home and keep them wrapped in newspaper in the garage. They don't last for weeks like this as they tend to dry out a bit, but it is not often we are minus temps for too long
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The clamp will have to be mouse proof
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I have cooked and frozen beetroot and it's fine as long as you freeze them on a tray to keep them separate. Forgot to do this once and had to make a ton of soup as a result!?
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Whilst you can clamp them outside, another way I have found is to store them in the greenboxes from the supermarkets covered in a layer of dry compost. That means you can access them whenever you want (rather than having to go to the allotment and dig them out of the clamp).
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I've frozen roasted beetroot with no ill-effects (to me or it!)
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Thanks all - I had a brainwave (that does not happen often) and I ended up using the vinegar jar, which will do my sister-in-law as they go through beetroot at a rate of knots. That just leaves the 1/2 of beds worth that is still in the ground at the moment.
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Bravo! :D
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I peeled and cut mine up and they were ok for soup and roasting when they came out. I will probably leave min in this year last year a neighbour gave me loads as he was going to compost them
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Whilst you can clamp them outside, another way I have found is to store them in the greenboxes from the supermarkets covered in a layer of dry compost.
This is how we store our excess beetroot (using spent compost).
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I've frozen roasted beetroot with no ill-effects (to me or it!)
so have I, except the white ones have gone a bit grey. Fine in a curry!
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Having had to freeze carrots this year as they went mad and the cellar was too warm to store anything in, I don't think I would freeze beetroot. Pickled a lot and chutneyed the rest last year as I sold a lot (pays for my preserving sugar etc) but I detest the texture of frozen carrots and will not risk the beets. I'll have to be more careful about when I sow both so that the cellar is cold enough to try that, and I have left a few in the ground to see what happens. (I don't think they have been washed away by rain yet)
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Mine are in the ground at the moment just digging as required I used to love them pickled but I prefer them roasted and in soup now.
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Mine are in the ground at the moment just digging as required I used to love them pickled but I prefer them roasted and in soup now.
I've never tried Roasted Beetroot that's something to think about next year