Learn How to Cut Fresh Herbs from your Garden this Summer with this Quick and Easy Kitchen Hack!
It’s fresh herbs season.
Oh, how I love fresh herbs season.
The house smells fragrant when they are cooking. The kitchen smells fragrant when they are being chopped. And your hands smell fragrant from picking them. Ahhh….
Scroll down to the end for some of my favorite and scrumptious recipes with fresh herbs!
The best and most efficient way to cut fresh herbs (IMO) is to chiffonade them and then run a knife through them once through after that.
First, remove all the stems.
Bunch up the smaller leaved herbs, like oregano, sage, parsley, rosemary leaves, and place them inside of a larger basil leaf.
Roll up the basil leaf like a cigar.
Chiffonade away. Then run the knife through it all once to get them nice and finely chopped.
Rolling the bigger leaf around the smaller leaves keeps any stranglers from falling to the side (which would happen if you were to run a knife through a pile of fresh herbs). Try this next time…see if it works for you!
Fresh Herb Recipes
Balsamic Tomatoes with Feta and Fresh Herbs
A combination of flavors that you'll fall in love with!
How to Freeze Fresh Herbs
Learn the best way to freeze and preserve your fresh herbs!
How to Cut Fresh Herbs
Learn how to cut fresh herbs like a pro with these simple steps!
Roasted Zucchini with Herbs and Feta
This zucchini recipe will make you, and maybe even your kids, love veggies!
Scallops & Herbed Tomatoes
A beautiful dish with beautiful flavors!
Scallops with Herbed Tomato Sauce
A dish that seems quite fancy, but is actually pretty easy to prepare!
Angel Hair with Julienned Zucchini
A great way to cut your pasta in half and use up your veggies!
Grilled Chicken Thighs with Chile-Herb Sauce
You are going to adore this sauce!
Herbed Chicken on Vegetable Confetti
If confetti is in the name, you know it's going to be good!
Allison says
Another way to do small herbs is to stack them all up and use a sharp pizza cutter. That works great to get finely chopped herbs without risking finely chopped fingers!
Dana says
I just discovered this trick on my own by accident the other night, Allison! All my good knives were in the dishwasher so I used the pizza cutter and loved it!
Jessi @ Quirky Cookery says
Oh what a nifty trick! I usually make the mistake of trying to cut each kind separate, but this could really help.
Rebecca says
I usually just put them all in a bowl and go at it with a pair of kitchen scissors!