Cress can be grown faster than almost any other herb. You should use up the leaves just as quickly. They cannot be kept for long. Freezing and drying are at best emergency solutions, since the taste suffers greatly from the preservation.

Save the cut cress

If the cress harvest is too large, store the herbs in a freezer bag in the refrigerator. Make sure the leaves are not too wet.

The ideal storage place in the refrigerator is the Bio-Fresh compartment, if one is available. Otherwise store the cut cress in the vegetable compartment.

The cut cress can be kept in the fridge for a week at most. Before consumption, you should check whether the herbs still smell fresh and whether mold has formed.

Freeze or dry cress

Sometimes there are very large amounts of cress, for example if you have sown them in the garden as a catch crop. So that the herbs don't perish completely, you can freeze them, either in a freezer bag or as cress cubes.

You should not dry cress. The effort is not worth it, because the aroma is almost completely lost.

Process better than store

You can keep cress that you have processed for a longer period of time

  • cress butter
  • cress oil
  • cress pesto

Herb butter can be made from cress. You can also store cress in oil for many weeks.

Pesto made from cress and other herbs, which you process together with oil, garlic, pine nuts and other ingredients, is very tasty.

It's better to keep re-sowing

Cress germinates within a few days and is ready to harvest after four to six days. It is therefore advisable to only plant as much cress as you can use.

Sow a new tray of cress every four days to every week, as needed. Then you always have a supply and don't have to worry about preservation.

tips and tricks

If possible, you should not store cress in the box bought in the supermarket in the refrigerator, as this increases the risk of mold. When buying, make sure that the plants look fresh and that no mold has yet formed on the potting soil.

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