Frozen green beans can be an excellent source of vitamins at a time when it is not possible to get them from fresh pods. If you take care of its harvesting in advance, you can significantly save on the purchase of ready-made vegetables in the supermarket, especially since freezing is quite simple.
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You will need
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- Plastic packaging bags;
- black Eyed Peas.
Instruction manual
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In order to freeze beans, you should take care of the source material. String beans will turn out tasty if it was collected at the stage of milk maturity. At this time, the pod can be easily pierced with a fingernail, the beans themselves are juicy and do not have a hard shell. If the collection time is missed, then even freezing will not help to make the beans more tender.
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At the finished pods, cut the stalks on which they were attached to the bush, then rinse them repeatedly under running water. This must be done especially carefully, since if ripe beans grow even in one rain, the presence of earth on the pods is inevitable.
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Transfer the well-washed pods to a colander or lay them on gauze or any other cloth spread on the table so that there is excess water from the glass beans. If this is not done, then when frozen, the pods will freeze to each other and become like a piece of ice.
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Cut the pods into pieces of the length that you want to see in the finished dish. Most often, slices are enough for a vegetable stew, whose length does not exceed 2-3 cm. In addition, in this size, vegetables take up much less space in the freezer than if you lay them out as a whole.
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Put the beans in a plastic bag and get rid of excess air. Then it remains only to immerse the package in the freezer. Instead of bags, you can use plastic containers with lids. The shorter the path between harvesting the beans and harvesting them, the more vitamins they conserve.
note
Vegetables from the freezer are cooked immediately, they can not be re-frozen, since they lose all the vitamins.
Useful advice
Frozen green beans are prepared in the form in which they are taken from the freezer. This product does not need preliminary defrosting, otherwise it will lose its shape and taste.