How To Freeze Green Beans

I'm going to show you how to cook and then freeze green beans. First of all, you take your lovely green beans here, make sure they're washed. Organic, I find, do taste a lot better.

Just simply line them up, the amount you want to cook and then freeze, and then you can easily just snip off both ends. Freezing green beans is a really good way to have them on hand to enjoy throughout the year especially if you have them in abundance and need to store them. You can cut them lengthwise.

You can cut them in half. What we find is it's just really nice cutting them into about thirds so they're just bite-sized pieces. We like this in particular.

These are quite big so we're just going to chop these into quarters. Just a few nice steps: you get your green beans, first of all, get them prepared. You need to blanch them.

I do think they'll do - do have a little test if you haven't done this before. Try them fresh like this, because I do think that they freeze, but they won't freeze well for a long period of time. So we're just going to take these green beans over here to our boiling hot water.

So I'm just showing you a few green beans at the moment. Of course, you can blanch as many as you like or as many as you can freeze. This thing is, at this stage, don't overcook them because then they will lose their tastiness and they could feel quite rubbery.

So, really, 3 minutes is enough to blanch them so do watch the timer. The green beans have been cooking, just blanching for about 3 minutes, so we take them off of here, and you need to cool them quite rapidly. Take them out.

I find that using a big spoon like this with the slots in it is very handy, and then literally, we pop them into some iced water. The tip I find is if you are blanching for about 3 minutes, you do need to leave them in the ice water for the same amount of time. Green beans are really tasty.

You can put them into a curry. You can enjoy them on their own. You can even add them on top of a salad.

It's a really lovely way to enjoy these. If you have an abundance, pop them into a freezer. When they have cooled down, you can test them as well.

You simply need to scoop out of the water. Obviously, pick off your ice cubes if you have ice in the water and pop them into a freezer bag. Make sure that you get as much water off as you can.

You can actually, after doing the ice cooling them, you can leave them on a plate or even blot them on some kitchen paper, but I find that these work well like this as well. You can label your bag if you want to add the date to your bag to know when you froze them. Try to get as much air out as possible.

Roll your bag up, and then we literally just pop that into the freezer. So, there we have it. That is how you freeze green beans. .