Take a clean pint size mason jar and put a few slices of onion, some garlic slices, peppercorns and crushed red pepper in the bottom of the jar.Then fill the jar with the cooled green beans and add some sprigs of dill. Then take it off the heat and let it cool while you fill the jars with beans. Bring the vinegar to a boil in a sauce pan, along with some salt, sugar and water.Īs the brine boils stir it to make sure the sugar and salt dissolve completely. I make the brine for these dilly beans from a combination of white vinegar and apple cider vinegar. The pickles might not be quite as crisp or quite as green, but they will still taste pretty darn good. While blanching the beans is recommended if you don’t do it it isn’t the end of the world. Once they are drained submerge them in a bowl of ice water so they don’t continue cooking. Let them cook for 1 minute and then drain them in a colander. To blanch the green beans bring a pot of water to a boil and add the green beans once the water is boiling rapidly. This rapid cooking followed by cooling helps prevent the beans from losing their color, texture and flavor. The process of making these pickled green beans is a little more complicated than some pickle recipes, because it is best to blanch the beans before pickling them.īlanching is the process of cooking the beans quickly in hot water for a few minutes and then cooling them in ice water. I like to put the beans in the jar and cut them all to a uniform length before I blanch them, so I know they will all fit in the mason jar. Wash them and remove the stems before pickling them. The most important thing in pickling green beans (and really any vegetable) is to make sure you are using the freshest vegetables you can. So don’t use skinny french green beans for pickling. The pickled green beans are best when you use beans that are all a uniform thickness, and very thin beans don’t pickle as well. So a combination of yellow and green beans will look very pretty in the jar. The purple beans will turn green after pickling, but the yellow ones will stay yellow. Yellow wax beans or purple beans can be used to make dilly beans just as easily as green beans. What Kind of Beans Should I Pickle?Īny kind of string bean will work in this recipe. I don’t have room in my refrigerator for more than a few jars of pickles at a time and I like to have variety! But you can easily double or triple the recipe if you have a lot of beans and want to make more than one jar of pickled green beans. Pickled beets, pickled radishes, pickled zucchini and even pickled green tomatoes are all delicious and easy to make. This way I can change things up and make a different type of pickle every few weeks. When I make refrigerator pickled vegetables I almost always make a small batch, consisting of one jar at a time. They are fresh, crisp and crunchy and make a nice change from traditional dill pickles.Ĭheck out my recipe for air fryer green beans for more serving ideas for beans! Refrigerator Pickles Pickled green beans, frequently called dilly beans, are a favorite pickle of mine. I rarely bother with doing complicated canning and preserving, but I enjoy making jars of pickles with fresh vegetables all summer long. I like to make quick, refrigerator pickles.
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