How to freeze broad beans without blanching

So you’ve grown enough broad beans to last you throughout the rest of the year, but you don’t want to spend the time blanching them before freezing. And I get it, I mean – who really wants all the hassle and a house full of steam? You want a quick and easy way to freeze broad beans without spending almost an hour blanching them. And here’s how you do it… How to freeze broad beans without blanching First and most important, remove the broad beans from their pods. They should be clean as they have been completely encased in the… → Read More

How To Freeze Broad Beans

Just got back from the allotment with two full buckets of Broad Beans. Obviously I won’t use that many Broad Beans at once so I need to store them, so I thought I’d share with you how to freeze Broad Beans. How To Freeze Broad Beans There are many different schools of thought and techniques for keeping Broad beans,from drying them bottling them but for me the most convenient way is to freeze them. This leads us to our first choice, whether to blanche them or not. Blanching is the term used to describe the process of par-boiling the Beans… → Read More