Dilly Beans- DILLYICIOUS!
- windridge6
- Aug 28, 2020
- 3 min read
Dilly Beans
I think you can probably pickle just about anything, around our house green beans are a favorite.
This is a nice way to preserve extra green beans without a pressure canner. We picked green beans and ended up with enough to make 10 pints of dilly beans.
Preparing Beans
To prepare the beans we have a little bean picking party on the front porch. Everyone gets a bowl and starts snapping the ends off and breaking the beans to size. I have read that some suggest cutting the end off, seems to me that it is much easier to snap them. Being a lazy gardener/canner, I only snap off the stem end. I don’t see the point of taking the other end off, it tastes just as good as the rest of the bean. I will confess though that the one jar of dilly beans that my daughter prepared for fair did have both ends removed so they would look pretty.
Ingredients
Ingredients you will need for each pint of dilly beans: • Beans • ½ tsp mustard seed • ½ tsp dill seed • 1 clove garlic • 4 slices of jalapeno pepper rounds– adjust depending on heat level you would like • 1 dill head • 1 slice of onion round • Vinegar, water and salt solution- see recipe below
Vinegar, Water and Salt Brine
Wash the pint jars, lids and rings in hot water.
Filling the Jars
Slice up the jalapeno peppers, peel garlic, and slice onion.
Slice Veggies
First put the garlic clove, mustard seed and dill seed in the bottom of the jar.
Add Spices
Fill the jar with beans. They look pretty if you break them about and inch shorter than your pint jar. It is easier to fill a wide mouth canning jars for this. I usually use regular for canning, just because the lids are cheaper, but for this I used the wide mouth. Tilt the jar to the side and layer the beans into to the jar. Once you have enough beans to fill it place the dill head, onion rounds and jalapeno rounds on top. You should still have ½ “of head room in the jar.
Jars Ready for Brine, because there are other jars of beans in back it looks like the jars are filled to the top- there is 1/2 inch of headroom- I promise.
Now is a good time to start the water boiling in the water bath. It will take longer than the liquid solution to heat up to a boil. Add enough water to the canner to cover the jars with about 1” of water.
The Pickling Brine
I like to fill the jars before mixing the vinegar solution, so I can make the proper amount of brine.
For 10 pints I mixed: • 5 cups vinegar • 5 cups water • ½ c pickling salt Put the liquids in a stock pot and bring to a boil.
Vinegar, Water and Salt Brine
Place your canning lids in a pan of water and turn on to a low simmer.
Once the canner is boiling and the vinegar is boiling it is time to put it all together. Ladle the brine into the jars leaving 1/2″ headroom. Use a butter knife to run around the edge inside the jar to remove any air bubbles. Place a lid and ring on the jar and tighten.
Fill Jars with Hot Brine
Put the jars in the canner rack in the boiling water, you need to have a rack in the canner- not on the bottom. The water will initially stop boiling as they are added. Wait for the water to begin to boil again before you start the timer.
Jars Almost Ready to Start to Boil
The pint jars need to be processed for 10 minutes in the boiling water bath. Remove the jars and place them on a dry towel. Check lids to make sure that they have sealed before storing. The small button/dimple on the top will be drawn down. Wait 2 weeks from canning before they are opened. They need time for the flavors to blend.
Disclaimer– this is the process that I use to can dilly beans and it works for me. Please consult your local extension office for more canning information or Ball Blue Book- canning book is a great resource.
Finished!
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