If the runner beans become ripe, you can usually harvest much more than can be eaten fresh. It is therefore worth preserving the vegetables by boiling them down. The stock is also perfect for quick cooking, because all you have to do is heat and season the beans or dress them up as a delicious salad.
How to preserve runner beans?
Canning runner beans is achieved by washing them thoroughly, trimming them, de-fatting them, cooking them in s alted water until al dente and then filling them into sterile jars. Boil a broth of bean water, white wine vinegar, shallots, sugar, s alt and spices, pour it over the beans and soak them at 100 degrees for 30 minutes.
Preparing the runner beans
You can keep the harvest fresh for two to three days in the refrigerator. To do this, wrap the vegetables in a slightly damp kitchen towel and store them in the vegetable compartment.
Before cooking, the runner beans must be washed thoroughly. Then cut off the ends and remove any thread from top to bottom.
Ingredients for 2 jars of 500 ml runner beans
- 1 kg beans
- 350 ml collected cooking water
- 500 ml white wine vinegar
- 4 shallots
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp s alt
- 4 stems of savory
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 tbsp mustard seeds
- 1 tsp black peppercorns
Preparation
- Sterilize jars in boiling water for ten minutes. Drain.
- Clean runner beans and cook in s alted water for ten minutes until al dente.
- Pour through a sieve, collecting the cooking water.
- Bring the bean water, vinegar, peeled and halved shallots, peeled garlic cloves, sugar, s alt and spices to the boil.
- Add beans and cook for another five minutes.
- Remove the vegetables with the slotted spoon and distribute them among the glasses.
- Bring the stock to a rolling boil and immediately pour it over the runner beans. These must be completely submerged.
- Close vessels.
Preserving beans
- Place the jars with the runner beans on the rack of the canner.
- Pour water so that about half of the containers are in the water bath.
- Soak at 100 degrees for 30 minutes.
Alternatively, you can cook the beans in the oven:
- Place glasses in a drip pan and pour two centimeters of water.
- Push into the tube and heat it to 180 degrees.
- As soon as small pearls appear in the brew, switch off the oven.
- Leave in the tube for another thirty minutes.
Check the cooled glasses to see whether a vacuum has formed everywhere. Label the runner beans and store them in a cool, dark place until ready to eat.
Tip
If you want neutral-tasting beans, you can cook them in s alt stock. To do this, boil water to which you add 20 grams of s alt per liter and a dash of vinegar. Cook the beans in it for ten minutes, pour into jars, pour the boiling hot stock over them and preserve as described.
