Vanity: Can I freeze this Home Made Dressing?

May 8, 2010 | vanity

[Global2010]

Greetings FR Home makers;canners;top chefs...

Ok so I made my way into the kitchen after a week of other things to do but the ingrediants for the Salad Dressing aged well.

My over all question to the recipe I will post is can I freeze it?

Many FR woman have helped me on this issue on other food items and so back again to ask for advice on "Can I freeze it?".

The salad dressing I made is as follows: Sunset Mag and a self sent in recipe by Rose Ann Koffler of Salinas, Cali.
Creamy Cucumber-avacado salad dressing
Makes 2cups Time 15 min.

2 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 English cumumber
1 avacado, pitted peeled
1/2 c. fresh mint leaves
1 c. baby spinich
2 spring onions ( I used green due to availablity)
Fresh juice of 1 lemon (improvised on that too)
2 tbsp. Olive Oil
1/2 teas. ground white pepper (improvised on that)
1 tsp sea salt ( I am a customer of Saltworks so I chose to use from my collection the coconut/lime sea salt).
Puree all ingrediants with 3/4 c. water.
Per 1/4c. serving: 75cal, 80% (60) from fat; 2 G Fiber; 288 MG sodium; 0 carbs.

[Global2010]

So it is awesome tasting and it stored into 4 lil containers.

I also went ahead and used the overflow of ing. I had shopped for...avacado/spinich ect and made a 2nd dressing substituting Cilantro and more green onion and an extra avacado.

This is my delima ladies. Do I freeze this wonderful light spring dressing for future use? IOW will it hold out ok for consistancy and flavour?

How long would it be safe in just the fridge?

Thanks Ladies.

(and for the why didnt I just google lurkers, I have an archaic browser but works for us and google either takes for ever of shuts down our browser).

[babygene]

Nope, you can’t freeze it...

[LongElegantLegs]

In my experience, cucumber and avacado don’t freeze well, but you might as well give it a try; freeze it for a few weeks and see what happens. As far as the fridge goes, I would say two week or until it starts to change color.

[CherieDawn]

You may be able to. Test a small portion in an ice cube tray. :)

[digger48]

I’m not sure English cumumber freezes well

[GVnana]

Nope. Not with the cukes and avocado. And your oils won’t come out right either.

[J Edgar]

“1 avacado, pitted peeled”
I have found that avacado beyond four days does not do well!

[Vendome]

Nope. Sounds delicious but avocados and cucumbers don’t like frost, at all.

You can’t even can it

Just eat it and thanks for the recipe.

[Vendome]

Disclaimer:
I live in Gilroy and might know these things.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“Disclaimer:
I live in Gilroy and might know these things”

LOL. They got a Holiday Inn there?

[JoeProBono]

[Grizzled Bear]

Dust off and nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

[HomersNose]

It’s pureed...so it should be fine. It calls for lemon juice..so that will take care of discoloration. If it separates after thawing..just run it through the blender again. Freeze one of the four containers and do a test run..thanks for sharing!! Do let us know of the outcome!

[Sarajevo]

Sounds yummy! Thanx for the recipe:)

[Vendome]

LOL

Garden Holiday Inn. I have breakfast there sometimes.

[Global2010]

Thanks for the advice.

The Cucumber/Avacado/Mint/Spinich (pureed) Dressing came out wonderful in the light dressing yet bold flavor.

It would have been perfect over Fresh Garden salen greens though...for you FR Gardners.

I used salted chopped pecans as a topper on the salad.

Now the alternative dressing I made using cilantro instead of mint wasn’t a salad dressing taste so I tried it on with some Jasmine Rice (which I make sushi rice style by adding a bit of coconut syrup like you use in coffee and some nipa palm viniger which is coconut viniger filipino style).

And to add heat a bit of wasabi dotted on the side of the dish.

So bottom line IMO those who have the first of the greens coming out of their garden would enjoy this light tasty Mint/avacado/cucumber pureed salad dressing as it would not smother out the taste of fresh baby greens but enhance them.

: )