How To Freeze Peaches The Right Way

How To Freeze Peaches The Right Way

Peaches are great food. Aren’t they? Everybody likes to enjoy peaches almost every day of the year. There is a way if you want to get this awesome fruit all throughout the year. You have to freeze it right. 

Peaches of off-season do not taste that good. They kind of lose the flavor. So you need to freeze them when in season. Frozen peaches work great almost on every dish. As this is one of the flavourful fruits globally, frozen peaches do not lose their characteristics.

The preparation

What is the correct way to freeze peaches? The answer is – no one knows. But some rules are there. If you freeze accordingly, your peaches may turn as exactly as it was before. Well, that is too much promise, though.

In the preparation segment, there are a few steps. But the most important step here is cutting your peaches. It is slightly difficult if you are a total newbie in this field. It also depends on the ripeness of the fruit. 

Get a nice and sharp knife after that cut the peach into two half. Then removing the pit is the only option that remains. It is okay if both the halves are not perfectly even in proportion. When you use the peach mostly in smoothies, it does not matter what the proportions are.

How to prevent peaches from turning brown?

This is a problem while you freeze certain foods. Like peaches, apple and avocados turn brown when heavily exposed to air. You must have seen this while eating an apple. When you cut in two halves, it is exposed to air. Thus it becomes brown.

There is a solution to every problem. This problem is a very small one in that aspect. What you need is lemon water or simply a mixture of lime juice and water. And you need to soak the fruit pieces in lemon water. That prevents them from turning brown immediately.

Another option is to use a fresh fruit protector. This does the job as well.

Freeze the peaches with the skin on or pealing it before?

Both of this can happen. When you freeze the fruit on the skin, it becomes very easy to let go of the skin when defrosting. But there are different recipes. Different recipes require different forms of this fruit. So it always depends on the requirement of the recipe.

If you intend to peel the skin, follow the steps below.

1. You need two different bowls of water. One for boiling water and one for cooling water.
2. Boil the fruit for a minimum of two to three minutes. You will notice the skin starting to get loose.
3. After doing the second step, now is the cooling step. Bring the fruit out of the boiling water and place them in the cold water.
4. It will take not so much time to get the cold of the cold water. Once you feel right, bring the peach out of the bowl. Now you can easily peel the skin.

It is the conventional way to keep the skin on until you defrost the peach. But again it depends on the user and his requirements.

Freezing and sealing

After you successfully soak them into the lemon water, you have to jump to the next step. The next step is to arrange them individually on a large baking sheet. Do not overlap the pieces because it will create a problem when you try to defrost them.

Next step is to find the ideal container for the fruits. The ideal container can vary in sizes and types. But before putting the pieces in a bag, you need to freeze them overnight or at least for four hours until they become slightly solid. Then comes the process of putting it in the freezer.

After you find your right bag for freezing, make sure you try to keep all the air out of the bag. Push out the air as much as possible. You can straw it out also. Both of these methods work just fine. After that, put your fruit in the bag and tightly lock the seal.

Peach is a great fruit for freezing. You can freeze them as long as a whole year. In this manner, you can also enjoy them no matter what the season is.

After locking the seal do not forget to put all the dates and labels on the bag. If you don’t remember when you put the bags in the freezer, then a major problem will arise. So write the dates on the bags.

Can you keep a whole peach frozen?

Of course, you can freeze a whole peach. But if your recipe does not call for it or require it, try not to freeze any fruit that way. Because when you freeze the peach whole, you do not cut the fruit. So the pit stays inside the peach.

When you intend to use it, you need to defrost the peach; first, you have to boil the fruit in hot water. Then you have to cut the fruit in half and then only you can take out the pit. You see all of this can be a little frustrating for someone. So do the same before freezing and enjoy the fruit afterward.

Small tips about freezing peaches

Freezing is an ideal way to preserve the peaches if one wants to use them the whole year. After defrosting, you may experience subtle softness in the frozen peaches. This is not a reason to worry. Freezing in no way reduces the quality.

There are various places you can add peaches to increase the taste. If you are a fitness lover, add peaches to your oatmeal. People also add them to baked goods or solid foods. Smoothie is a major thing where people add peaches. So the point is to cut the pieces accordingly.

Do not apply frozen peaches directly to your food. Always remember to defrost them. This is a very important thing to do.