Drying Parsley

My parsley plant that I planted this spring grew huge over the summer!

At the same time my bottle of dried parsley just had a few sad flakes at the bottom.  Looking it up online, there were several good posts about drying parsley.  

I was excited to try something new!!!!  I have never dried herbs before.  Just bananas.  

The instructions they had in common were:

• Put your dehydrator on a low setting
• Put the parsley in a single layer on the drying rack
• Dry until crisp and easy to crumble

I have a cheap dehydrator that I got from Aldi.  It took it about 4 hours to dry a full contingent of parsley.

I love how pretty it looks when dry as well!

Batch 1

Batch 2

Batch 3

Just two more batches to go until my bottle is full.  My favorite ways to use dried parsley are in the topping I make for garlic bread and in homemade chicken noodle soup.

What are yours?

Have an adventurous day!

dEb