Don't throw away wilting herbs as simple method will keep them good for months

Using fresh herbs in your cooking is a great way to add delicious flavour to your food. But whether you buy them at the store or grow them yourself, you might be aware they usually don't last for long.

While there are plenty of things you can make to make sure to use up the herbs before they go bad, such as pestos and other herb blends, sometimes you just might not have any ideas on what to use it for.

To help you prevent food waste, food and recipe creator Nicole K. Modic shared her ultimate tip on how you can prepare these herbs in order to keep them fresh and good for months at a time, making you feel less rushed about remembering to using it.

In a video posted onto Nicole's social media pages, where she has over 3.6 million followers across Instagram and TikTok, she went on to show what she does to wilting herbs.

"If you have herbs sitting in your refrigerator that are about to go bad, listen up because you need to do this," she said at the start of her video.

In the video, she is seen having chopped up her array of fresh herbs before she divides them up into an empty ice tray.

She goes on to explain: "Chop them up and put them in an ice cube tray and fill each cavity with olive oil or melted butter and then freeze."

"You will just have made your very own olive oil herb cubes that you can use anytime to give your food a lot more flavour," she added.

While olive oil is quite expensive at the moment, you can also use any other cooking oil that you already have at home, or melt butter and pouring it over the herbs in the ice cube tray.

When you're ready to use them, you just pop out a few cubes of the specific herbs you want and let them defrost in a heated frying pan before frying your food in the herby oil. Buttered herb cubs would also go great in mash, or on a steak - or whatever else you can think of.

These frozen herb cubes will last you for up to six months in the freezer, so there's no rush in having to use them up.

People quickly took to the comment section of Nicole's video, with many viewers praising the content creator for her simple yet 'genius' hack.

"This is perfect. I love fresh herbs over the dried ones but I find myself wasting so much! I can't wait to try," one viewer wrote. A second person said: "Sooo smart."

"Thank you all the tips," someone else said.

Another person recommended: "I make the mint with water in my ice cubes to pop into my water as ice blocks and added it to my smoothies. Game-changer."