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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Alice Zaslavsky

Is your fridge a vegetable graveyard? How to revive dead produce into crisper soup

For Alice Zaslavsky column. Crisper Shchi. Melbourne. Australia.
Earthy sweet vegetables make shchi ‘the soup of mass satisfaction’, says cook and author Alice Zaslavsky. Photograph: Rochelle Eagle/The Guardian

Your fridge’s crisper drawer is the first kitchen skill worth cracking. Even if you’ve grown to refer to yours as “the rotter” where that hopeful haul of herbage snapped up at the shops in a spontaneous “health kick” goes to die. Especially so!

Rather than letting your vegetables gloop and congeal, extend their lives. And if they start to look a little lank, there’s a tasty way to transform them into a midweek marvel.

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