Raisins are very popular dry fruit which is sweet and tangy in taste and is used to add in various kinds of desserts, cakes, small waffles<\/a> and drinks. they are low in calories and packed with lot of healthy nutrients in them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n you can easily freeze them to increase the shelf life of the raisins although they still can go bad beyond expiry date and lose flavor. generally raisins packets and boxes comes with shelf life of 12 months but once you open the pack to consume it then shelf life drops to about 6-8 months due to moisture entry in container.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n freezing raisins is good to keep them in good shape and right texture for long time, so if your freezer has some space left then keep the raisins packet in freezer and use when required without any issues.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n put the raisins in small plastic container and make sure they don\u2019t stick with each and then put in freezer. when you require it then open the container and take them out in required quantity and keep the rest back.\u00a0if you have vacuum sealer bags then you can store raisins in them as well to keep in freezer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n to avoid sticking of raisins due to moisture in them, i would recommend you to take a parchment paper or baking sheet on a tray and spread all the raisins on then tray evenly so that all of them are separate and not sticking then let them freeze for 1 hour. doing this will make sure that moisture is gone from outer layer of your raisins<\/p>\n after that take raisins in small quantities and store them in small containers and zip lock bags to store in freezer separately so that when you require small quantities, it is readily available without worrying about defrosting whole big chunk of raisin every time.\u00a0 doing this will ensure raisins will also stay sticking free and wont form big blob of raisins when required for using in our tasty recipes.<\/p>\n Also when we freeze the raisins, it increases its shelf life for 6 months, making total shelf life of about 18 months.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Checkout:<\/strong> how to get rid of freezer burn<\/a><\/p>\n If you want to enjoy some raisins as snacks then just take the container out and keep it on your counter top for few hours and it would be ready to it or you can just transfer the container from freezer to fridge and the job of defrosting would be done over night or in few hours so that you can take out the raisins and enjoy cold raisins as snacks or in some dishes.<\/p>\n if you need to add raisins to some baked dishes like cakes, drinks, puddings etc. then you can add in freeze form only and it will become normal on its own due to the heat of the dish and make them taste good.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n raisins can be consumed in many forms with many dishes. if you eat them without anything you will find them sweet and tangy depending upon the variety you choose to eat.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/span>Benefits of raisins<\/span><\/h2>\n
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