Canning peas made easy: instructions & tips

2024 Author: Leonars Benson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 16:46

Canned peas from the supermarket often contain sugar, flavorings and a relatively high amount of s alt. However, if you cook the he althy, green balls with their high protein content yourself, you will know exactly what is in the jar. In this way, an unexpectedly rich harvest can be preserved for a long time.

How can I preserve peas?

Canning peas can be done in the oven or in a pressure canner. The peas are cooked twice in the oven at 120 degrees for 90 and 60 minutes. In the pressure canner they need about 40 minutes under pressure at 98 degrees.

Cooking peas in the oven

You don't need any special equipment to cook peas. Canning jars with twist-off lids or preserving jars as well as the oven are sufficient. Please note that the legumes should be boiled twice due to their high protein content, as this is the only way to reliably kill bacteria.

Ingredients for 4 glasses of 500 ml each

• 2 kg peas
• 20 g preserving s alt or table s alt without added iodine or fluoride
• Water

Preparation

1. Sterilize jars and drain on a clean tea towel.
2. Shell the peas and blanch them briefly in boiling water.
3. Drain and immediately cool with cold water.
4. Pour the peas into the jars.
5. Add a teaspoon of s alt to each glass.
6. Pour boiling water over it. There should be three centimeters of space left towards the top edge.
7. Place in a drip pan and pour three to four centimeters of water.
8. Cook at 120 degrees for 90 minutes.
9. Let it cool down and can the next day in the same way for another 60 minutes at 120 degrees.
10. Store in a cool, dark place.

The classic way: canning peas in the pressure canner

Prepare the jars as described above and place them on a rack in the canner. The food being preserved must not touch each other, as this is the only way the steam can circulate freely.

1. Fill about 4 liters of water.
2. Close the lid and bring the water to the boil.
3. Allow steam to escape for ten minutes.
4. Close valves to allow pressure to build up in the pot.
5. Simmer for 40 minutes.
6. Switch off device and release pressure.
7. Open the preserving pot and remove the hot jars with a glass lifter.

Tip

If you cook peas with a conventional preserving pot, you should can them at 98 degrees for 110 minutes and repeat this the following day.