My family goes through dry parsley on a regular basis. It goes on to seared chicken, beef stews, steaks… You name it. Well, a trip to the store revealed that organic parsley spice isn’t cheap. Who wants to spend five bucks on a bottle that won’t last very long?
The cheapest solution: dry my own dang organic parsley. Yes, it can take a little bit of time, but not more than ten minutes. And buying it fresh and organic was a third of the price! How could I not embark upon this adventure?
The first step was to cut the parsley down to little leaf bunches, wash the parsley, and rise it off. I use an organic vegetable wash that I bought, but you can easily make it from scratch by using lemons and vinegar. Here’s the link to that.
To speed up the drying process, I tossed the parsley in my salad spinner and spun it like crazy.
Onto the dehydrator trays it goes! I tried not to cut the pieces too small, as they would have fallen through the cracks in the dehydrator tray.
I set the dehydrator at 95 degrees Fahrenheit. The drying time took about 22 hrs total.
From there, I took the dried parsley pieces and put them into my food processor. A few presses of the high button had them at just the right size.
This was seriously easy and the result was the best parsley spice that I have ever tasted! Skip the expensive spices and just do it yourself.
