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How to Freeze Green Beans From The Garden

Updated: Oct 25, 2023


Green beans are such a great vegetable to add to a meal. I especially love to eat them sauteed up with onions and bacon. Here, we are teaching you how to freeze green beans from the garden (store, farmers market, or anywhere you get them) for easy use later.

Prepare the green beans to blanch and freeze.

Snap off the end

How to Blanch Green Beans

Freezing green beans is so easy. All you have to do is cut off the blossom ends and then blanch the trimmed beans. Do this by either boiling or steaming the green beans for 3-5 minutes.

Blanch the green beans.

Blanch the beans

After blanching, you will want to dry off the beans by gently patting them with a clean kitchen towel.

Pat the green beans dry after blanching.

pat dry

How to Freeze Green Beans

You can either freeze Green Beans in separate small batches like my friend does, or you can freeze them in bulk and pull out a few as you need them, as we are doing on this video.

How to Freeze Green Beans from your garden.

Freezing separately vs together

I really prefer to freeze green beans in a manner that ensures my ability to choose how much I want later. Do this by placing the beans on a cookie sheet and freezing them for 2-4 hours before placing them in the storage bags.

Label your freezer bag with the contents and date.

Label bag

I label the storage bag with the date and contents before putting any food inside. It is just easier to do it when you can lay it flat. Labeling contents may seem funny, but after it has been in the freezer for a while you may forget what is in the bag.

Place the frozen green beans into a freezer safe bag.

Place in bag

After the beans are frozen, I place them in a freezer bag and remove as much air as possible.

How to store frozen green beans.