Frozen Green Beans

One way of preserving food is by freezing but freezing vegetables will only make them mushy when thawed. So there is a process that should be done before freezing it. And that is, you have to blanch it first before making frozen green beans.

How to make Frozen Green Beans

• Select young tender string less beans that snap when broken.
• Cut beans into 1 or 2-inch pieces.
• Put beans in a blanching basket, lower basket in boiling water and cover. Heat for 3 minutes.
• Plunge basket of blanched beans in cold water. Cool for 3 minutes.
• Remove the beans from water and drain.
• Pack the beans into polyethylene bags.
• Leave 1/2-inch headspaces and seal by twisting and folding back top of bag and tying with a string.
• Freeze at once. Store at 0 °F or below.