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Green beans are the garden gift that keeps on giving. If you can keep up with the picking about 1-2 times per week, green beans will just keep on making beans until they freeze. What to do with all those green beans? One of my favorite methods of preserving green beans is dehydrating. The main reason I like it so much is that it shrinks a grocery sack full of fresh green beans into a quart jar of dehydrated beans. And I’ve always lived in a house without enough storage room, so making something take up less space is ideal. Dehydrating saves freezer space and lengthens the shelf life of your preserved green beans over canned beans.I know you’re itching to get started, so here’s how to dehydrate green beans:
1. Pick, wash, and snap or cut your beans into the size you want to eat. My pieces are usually 1-1 1/2 inches long. If the kids are snapping, they’re all random and that’s okay–they all taste the same.
2. Once you have your green beans prepped, you’ll need to blanch them. Get a pot of water to boiling and put your bean pieces in it.
How do you prepare them when you want to use them?
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