If you’re trying to figure out a way to preserve a few extra greenbeans this summer I’ve got the perfect recipe for you. I’ve made several jars of Nanette’s Favorite Dilled Beans this summer, and they were a huge hit with my cooking class.
Nanette’s Favorite Dilled Beans
Wash and trim to fit pint jars:
- 3 pounds young green snap beans (I think pretty much any greenbean would work-you’d need to string the varieties that needed it)
In each of six pint jars place:
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 small whole red pepper (I couldn’t find any so I used a piece of red bell pepper)
- 1 sprig fresh dill
Add greenbeans to jars making sure they do not rise above the 1/2 inch head space needed for processing. Really cram the beans in the jar tightly-this will help prevent your beans from floating to the top of the jar after they’re made. (of course they taste the same whether they float or not)
In saucepan combine:
- 3 cups distilled white vinegar
- 3 cups water
- 4 tablespoons kosher salt
Bring mixture to boil, then pour over beans packed in jars. Add lids and rings to jars-then process for 20 minutes in a hot water bath. One run I made ran a little short on the vinegar mixture, if that happens just make up another batch of the mixture.
This is an easy recipe for a novice canner and one tasty enough to use every summer.
Tipper
I’ve never tried dilly beans and they sound delicious! Maybe I missed it, but how long do they have to cure before you can eat them?
Christina-I would let them sit at least a month 🙂
Wow! This sounds good, doesn’t it.
Actually, I like green beans and wax beans so much, fixed any old way sounds good to me. LOL
God bless.
RB
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Tipper this site reminds me of Mother’s pickles and pickled green beans and my mother in-law Hattie’s .boy those two had a handled on pickles (cumbers , bean and corn.)
Tipper,
That sounds good, but I’ve never
heard of pickled beans. I have had ’em broke up and with corn and other stuff and pickled.
I’m on my last jar of baby peeled cucumbers you fixed back in 2011. When my acid reflux flares up and I’m close to the frig, I just open the door and
take a sqig, and I’m ready to go.
I may try some pickled whole beans, cause I like everything
you put in with ’em…Ken
Miss Cindy-Pickles LOL : )
Blind Pig The Acorn
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Cee-yes they taste similar to dill pickles : ) If you try them I hope you like them!
Tipper
Blind Pig The Acorn
Celebrating and Preserving the
Culture of Appalachia
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These look so yummy! I must grow beans next year to try this. I love fresh green beans. Thanks so much!
B-thank you for the tip about how to get them crisp! I’ll be trying that one : ) Yes I pickle me some okry too : )
Blind Pig The Acorn
Celebrating and Preserving the
Culture of Appalachia
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I’ve never heard of dilled beans. Do you eat them in the same manner as dill pickles? I am intrigued – I just may have to give these a try.
Thanks Tipper for the recipe. My husband loves Dilly Beans.
Tipper,
I love Dilly Beans or Pickled Green Beans. This is what the varmits (boys) used to borrow and take to their hideout in the woods back in the day! Seems like the more I pickled the less jars my husband reported was on the basement shelf. I would lose count as I was canning pickling lots during those days. Whatever produce was coming in or ready that or week, I had a run going of Bread n’ Butter pickles, dill pickles, Tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, pickled okra, green beans, pickled green beans etc. etc. He would report that I probably needed to make more pickled beans, okra etc. when we picked enough for another run! Anyhow,
I grew Blue Lakes for dilly beans.
They grow round and long and if the weather is right hang by the double handfuls from the vine. There mild flavor to me is just right for dilly beans. I always canned them in quart jars for the most part. We also planted about 4 cayenne peppers and always used them in my dilly beans and pickled okra. It seems I never had enough dill. So, an elderly neighbor that had grown it for years, (a long wide row of beautiful dill plants) supplied me dill. She said hers self-seeded and had grown in the same spot in her garden for years.
If my boys see your recipe, when they read your post, I will be getting a call for dilly beans!
Thanks Tipper,
Do you pickled Okry as well?
PS..back in the day we added a bit of alum to the jar to help with the crunch. Now-a-days some use “Pickle Crisp” added to their jar for more crispness. I always used a dill head or if the dill head was extremely large only part of a head. A whole red cayenne pepper, I made a tiny slit in mine, before packing it in the bottom of the jar with the garlic and dill! Yep, we like ours hot and crispy!
Tipper, those beans look good. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten any dilled beans but this year would be a good time to start since there is an abundance of green beans this year.
So, here’s a question for you….do they taste like green beans or do they taste like pickles?