Dilled Green Beans And Garlic Pickle

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 2 lbs fresh green beans
• 1 cup white vinegar
• 3 cups water
• 2 tablespoons pickling salt
• 4 sprigs fresh dill
• 2 teaspoons dried dill
• 6 garlic cloves
• 1 dash cayenne pepper (optional)

Recipe

• 1 wash and trim beans to fit vertically in pickle jar.
• 2 in a medium pot add water, salt and beans and bring to a boil. boil for 3 minutes.
• 3 remove beans, and immerse beans into ice water bath.
• 4 reserve blanching liquid.
• 5 in the pot of water used to blanch beans, add vinegar, dried dill, 2 cloves of garlic and cayenne pepper.
• 6 return to a boil, reduce heat and simmer covered for 5 minutes.
• 7 into hot sterilized pickle jars, place 1 clove of garlic and 1 sprig of dill then pack with beans stacked vertically leaving 1/4 inch headspace.
• 8 ladle hot pickling liquid into packed jars, leaving 1/4 inch headspace and seal.
• 9 process in boiling water bath for 10 minutes.
• 10 store in cool dark place.
• 11 ready in 2 weeks and keeps 12 months.
• 12 serve chilled, refrigerate after opening.