Freezing Green Onions?

katrina

September 6, 20100 found this helpful

Why ever would you want to freeze green onions? Easy to grow year round and just use as needed; and replant more! You can use any type of onion or onion set and simply pull to eat them prior to them being huge! Walla walla sweets is my favorite! They never get huge, I simply use them as green onions!

Jonnie Shambarger

September 9, 20100 found this helpful

I like to have fresh green onions on hand but can seldom use them all before they would go bad and freezing them is the way to save them. Just chop them ready for use in a cooked recipe (they won't be good to use in a salad), put them in a freezer bag and flatten them out before putting them in the freezer so that you can break off the amount needed when ready to use them.

shirley

September 9, 20101 found this helpful

Freezing chopped green onions or fresh herbs to speed up prep time and reduce spoilage, but a twist is using plastic drink bottles as handy dispensers. When freezing chopped green onions, put them into an old water bottle that you've washed, and use a permanent marker to label the bottle cap with the contents. Freeze. To use, simply remove the cap, shake out just as much as you need, replace the cap and return to the freezer. The clear bottle allows you to quickly see what's inside, and shaking things out of a bottle is faster than spooning them out of a freezer container. I use them in cooked dishes like fried rice, microwave mixed rice, soups, curries or scrambled egg purses you name it.

Remember that moisture is your enemy in freezing, so be sure to dry the green onions thoroughly before chopping to prevent freezer burn. I used a large funnel to get the chopped scallions into the bottle, but you could also cut another plastic bottle in half around the middle and turn it over on top of the larger bottle, creating a do-it-yourself funnel. Green onions do become a bit soft in freezing, so they're best used in cooked dishes as opposed to salads. Use within three weeks of freezing for best quality.