How to store chives

Whether grown in your herb garden or bought at a supermarket, fresh chives add bright, vegetal flavor to a wide array of recipes. Learn how to properly store fresh chives and use the herb in recipes all year round.

It's incredibly easy to freeze fresh chives, so you can preserve the harvest whenever you have a glut of this flavourful herb.

Whether you eat them sprinkled over a baked potato or mixed into scrambled eggs, chives are a delicious, hardy herb from the onion and leek family. To store chives, keep them fresh in the refrigerator or preserve them for up to 1 year by...

Learn great ways to Preserve Chives, step by step. Tips for storing, freezing and drying chives. Plus free recipes.

How to dry chives in the oven, plus other ways to dry herbs. Dry chives in a dehydrator or by air drying. Store dried chives in jars.

Recently I was asked how do you dry chives. Chives are truly the easiest herbs to dry. My preferred method is to oven dry since the color and shape is well retained. In the image below, the chopped chives have been dried and I place some unchopped chives with them. These perennial herbs are also the easiest herbs to grow! And they are so easy to preserve by drying. It doesn't take much time or any fancy expensive equipment!

Learn how to dry chives easily. Simple step by step instructions from cutting chives in your garden to freezing chives to sun drying chives. I show you how to store your dried chives. You have options when saving chives for recipes.

How to dehydrate chives in a food dehydrator, oven, and by air. Step by step tips on how to dry chives to preserve your herbs.

Here are 4 ways dry chives: in a paper bag, on a paper/cloth lined tray, in the microwave or in the dehydrator. I don’t recommend the oven, unless it has a dehydrate setting. Whatever method you choose, you can dry them whole or cut. Would you rather freeze them? Check out the video included on how to freeze chive.

How to preserve chives and make the most of your chive patch by making vinegar, salad dressing, and freezing chives for later.