Best Way to Prep Herbs

So let's talk about the best way to prep herbs

In front of me I've got basil, I've got parsley, and I've also got mint. And we'll talk about the best way to chop each of these

With the basil, we're going to take the leaves, pluck them off the vine. In this way you can get a lot of them done all at the same time

I'm going to stack the leaves and sort of just roll them up like a cigar

and just give them a chiffonade. When you really just chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop

just pound your herbs, most of the oil from them and that good flavor is going right to your cutting board

So basically you're seasoning your cutting board. So cut them as little as you can

It looks really good, smells good. It's a professional-looking cut, and it's also not going to brown as fast

Same thing with parsley. We just going to take these broad leaves and we stack them up and roll them just like we did with the basil And then beautiful

Perfect garnish. It looks really nice. It'll stay fresher longer and you didn't lose all the oils into your cutting board

Now let's move on to mint. This is something that we really love in the south. It's mint leaves

We put this in our sweetened tea and it adds a nice flavor to it

You don't cut this at all. With mint, you just simply pluck it

Pluck off a little bouquet, top it right into your sweet tea on top of the ice cubes, and

it looks great. But if you have really big leaves, and you do want to make them smaller, just tear it

Don't cut it. This way it also won't turn brown. Ooh, that smells nice

Now that's how you properly prep your herbs. And also right here on the Paula Deen Network, we've got some great tips for storing them

So stick with us and dig around and we can show you all kinds of great tips