I am super excited to be freezing green beans! This is the first year we have planted enough green beans to have some to save. We are growing purple, yellow, and traditional green beans. The purple are fun, but they turn green when cooked so no one knows that they were purple unless they see them before they are cooked. I think the purple are the sweetest and I like them just as well as the green. The yellow beans are slightly more bitter than the green, but when they are mixed with the others you don’t notice.
What do you need to freeze green beans?
A pot of boiling water.
A bowl of ice water.
A way to dry the beans. (We used a salad spinner, but a towel would work too.)
Something to store them in. Freezer bags or vacuum seal bags.
To get started boil the beans for 3 minutes and then transfer to the bowl of ice water to cool them quickly.
Then dry them.
Store them and freeze.
We finished with 2 – 6 ounce packages and 1-8 ounce package of green beans.
Yum!