dehydrating snap beans
Another garden/kitchen experiment...
I dehydrated lots of runner beans last year, and I enjoyed them so much (as a snack, eating straight from the jar) that I decided to try other types of beans this year. Alas, neither Emerite nor Blue Coco works as a dried snap bean. There's not much left when they're dehydrated, and they don't retain much flavor.
And I ran out of time to pick beans so I've let my runner beans go to seed! I guess I could try picking all the runner beans and using them as shelly beans, and hope the plants continue to produce beans.
I blanched my runner beans last year, but put raw snap beans in the dehydrator this year. I wonder if it makes a difference to blanch them first?
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