Did you know that water isn’t the only thing you can freeze in your ice tray? In fact, ice trays are a great tool for portioning out and creating made-ahead portions of ingredients. There are lots of great things to be done with your ice trays, so go get a few extra trays and check out these three ideas!
Coffee Ice Cubes
If you often find in summer that your cold brew gets too watered down when you add your ice (a double problem when making iced coffee since the hot coffee immediately melts the ice right into water), then you should try freezing coffee as ice cubes instead! Add these cubes of coffee to your morning brew and find your coffee getting stronger instead of weaker with each sip!
Ginger or Ginger/Garlic Paste
If you make a lot of Asian-inspired dishes, you probably find yourself grating up ginger and garlic constantly. That’s hard work! A great alternative is actually to make your own ginger-garlic paste by grating up or food-processor-ing a whole peeled ginger root and a peeled head of garlic. Then, portion the paste out into your ice cube trays and freeze it. Now instead of grating for each meal, all you have to do is grab a ginger-garlic cube and throw it in the pan.
Fresh Herbs
Fresh herbs tend to go bad a little quicker than you can use them up, and when that happens, ice trays are a great solution. Just chop up the herbs you have that you know you won’t use in time, and portion them out into the cubes molds. Then freeze them, and voila! Next time you’re cooking, just throw in an herb cube for convenient flavor.
