Hey guys!
I'll cut right to the chase. I'm looking for a way to get the most out of cilantro. I want to make some sort of liquid that, when eaten, tastes like you've just chewed on a bunch of the stuff. What would be a technique to use to go about doing this?
PS: I'm not looking to make an infused oil.
Thank you in advance for your time!
I froze cilantro in a bag and I froze green alcohol in a jar. Then I put the frozen cilantro in the frozen alcohol and shook it every three days for a week. I strained the alcohol/cilantro blend through a coffee filter and placed the alcohol in a relatively flat Akia spice tin (The kind with the magnets on the back).
I then placed the tin on the flat surface with a 6 inch fan placed about 10 inches away to help with evaporation. At first the alcohol which we doing with that wonderful herbal smell of cilantro. You see, I have a ton of cilantro in my garden and while I wanted some of her to go to seed so that I could have whatever the heck that spice is called, I can’t remember, I wanted to see if I could process the cilantro in a way that it would keep for a long time. But then something strange happened . As the alcohol began with operate there was no more aroma and no more flavor!
No I’ve been doing the same process with cannabis sativa for the past 15 years and you can let it go until you literally have hash oil at the bottom of the chin. But you can either stop the process so there’s still a little bit of liquid or you can stirring some olive oil over very low heat for about five minutes.
Making pain salve for my arthritis in this manner I add organic beeswax and coconut oil lecithin and vitamin E. It doesn’t lose any of its potency.
But with my cilantro I was left with about an inch of green alcohol they had no flavor whatsoever.
can anybody explain what the heck happened?
Perhaps the solution is to not try to evaporate it at all but to bottle it up right away. I could use a dropper bottle and put a couple droppers in soups and stews at the appropriate time so the alcohol burns off and I’m left with the flavor. That’s my goal. To have a range of herbal alcohol solutions that will hold the flavor and last a long time. I don’t know whether you called them absolutes, or essential oils, or extractions, or infusions but I’m obviously confused!
