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Blanching Green Beans

November 20, 2023 | by Joshua Kid

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How to blanch green beans

Hello and welcome to this blog post. My name is Joshua Kid and I am 11 years old. Today I am going to tell you about blanching green beans but you can do it with other things too. My allotment produced an a’bean’dent (abundant beans basically, get it) harvest of beans, so we had to preserve them so we can eat them during the winter. But if you just put them in the freezer their texture and taste changes and quite frankly, they do not taste nice. So, we blanched them and then put them in the freezer to preserve them. Here I will show you in a step-by-step guide with pictures how we blanched our beans.

Ingredients for blanching green beans

Really all you need for blanching beans is the beans, but what tools do you need? Well, here is the list.

Tools needed for blanching green beans

You Need: 3 big saucepans; a baking tray (optional); a knife; kitchen roll; ice; water; a hob and a wire basket (Like you use for cooking chips in a deep fat fryer.). So now we get on to how to do it

How to blanch green beans

  1. You take the hard bit at the top of the bean off with the knife
  2. You then have to wash the beans
  3. Put the first saucepan on the hob to simmer
  4. Then you take the second saucepan and fill it with water and ice
  5. You take the wire basket and fill it with beans ready for blanching
  6. You put the wire basket in the first saucepan when it is simmering
  7. You leave it for 3 minutes
  8. Then you transfer the beans into the second saucepan (the ice water one)
  9. Take the beans out when they are cool
  10. While you are waiting for the beans to cool you take your baking tray if you are using one and line it with a double layer of kitchen roll. If you are not using a baking tray, just put a double layer of kitchen roll on the side
  11. Then when the beans are cool you can use tongs or a spoon to transfer them out of the ice water saucepan and onto the kitchen roll.
  12. If you are doing more than one batch you may need to add more ice into the saucepan at this point in the process
  13. Now you take an extra piece of kitchen roll to dab the top of the beans dry
  14. When the beans are dry you can put them into freezer bags
  15. Then put the contents and date on the bags because you do not want to eat off green beans!
  16. Then tie the bags up ready for the freezer
  17. Put the bags in the freezer
  18. When you want green beans just take them out of the freezer cook and enjoy

Blanching other vegetables

The frozen beans you get at the grocery store are blanched. The frozen peas and the frozen sweetcorn are blanched too. There are endless possibilities. But they all follow the same principle. I showed you how to do it on green beans but you can do it with other vegetables too. As I said there are endless possibilities…

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