[LivvyW]

Does anyone have any tips for cooking frozen homegrown french beans? I have read on here that they are a great vegetable to freeze,but i just think they taste soggy.

I blanch very briefly before freezing, and have tried steaming and boiling from frozen.

Should i be defrosting them first?

[sunshineband]

I cook mine from frozen

3.5 mins in fast boiling water.

They retain plenty of texture and flavour for me like this

I hope it helps 

[Trillium]

The texture will be different due to the freezing breaking down the plant cells, but doing as Sunny suggests will give you the best results. It's what I do and they taste fine.

[LivvyW]

Thanks mods,

They DO taste good, the just feel a little bit 

I like my veggies quite firm.

Just wanted to check there was no magic way of preserving the crunch.

Thanks again.

[Robert_S]

The ones I froze last year after blanching have been quite good steamed or boiled, but I think steamed are slightly better. Cooked from frozen. They were blanched for a good few minutes, almost par-boiled really.

The ones I tried without blanching...hmmm, tried one lot and am not looking forward to eating those once the blanched ones have run out. But still better than buying from the shop.

[grinling]

I don't bother blanching. fine