Cooking Garden Fresh Green Beans

Cook beans fresh from the Garden

Green beans are a tasty food to add to your summer menu. They are even better if they come from your garden or the local farmers market. 

This is how I fix and cook our green beans. First I remove the ends and strings and then break them up into small pieces about 1 1/2 inches or 2 inches. Some people just remove the ends and strings and cook them whole but we like them in bite size pieces. Wash them until the water runs clean. 

I use a small pressure cooker to cook mine in (not a pressure canner). I put the clean beans in the cooker and fill with water up to the maximum water limit and add small pieces of bacon and salt the beans. Some people add ham pieces instead of bacon but I had bacon on hand so that is what I used.
Put the lid on and I cooked mine about 25 minutes. This depends  on your stove heat. If it cooks really hot lower the time and if it doesn't heat up as fast or hot then cook the beans longer.

I removed them from the heat when the time was up and removed the lid and the beans will still have liquid in them. Some people like their beans juicy but we like them cooked down. So I cook them to remove the liquid from them and they are ready to serve.

I usually cook them in the morning before it gets too hot outside.

You could also cook them on the stove in a regular pan just cook them until the beans are tender. Same for a crock pot.