Spicy Pickled Green Beans are mildly spiced and a wonderful way to prepare fresh green beans. A great accompaniment at lunch, dinner, and especially parties.
Buffet parties are such a great way to entertain. The tables are lined up with lots of different types of food.
Important additions are some accompaniments such as olives, sweet brussel sprouts, and pickled vegetables.
In fact, one of my favorite dinners is made up of a few different appetizers. Tapas as they call them in Spain.
Little plates with a few bites like Pesto Tortilla Rollups, No Bake Stuffed Mini Peppers, and these Spicy Pickled Green Beans would be perfect.
Recipes don’t have to go overboard with tart vinegar when being pickled. I do love a great crisp dill pickle but mild pickling with just a hint of sweet or heat is my preference.
That is what this recipe is all about. These mildly spicy pickled green beans are something you can add as an appetizer to many dinners.
It won’t fight with the flavors of the other dishes.
Fresh summer green beans are starting to arrive at the stores.
In fact, I saw one of those huge vegetable trucks driving by the other day (we are in New York right now) and it was piled high with green beans.
That was a first for me. I've seen many onion, garlic, and beet trucks but never green beans.
That is mostly what they grow around here - green beans, corn, and cabbage. The fields are gorgeous.
What Chili Peppers can be used with Spicy Pickled Green Beans?
- First of all, be very careful when handling hot chili peppers. I wear thin rubber kitchen gloves and pull them off from the wrist, and let them turn inside out as I pull. Throw away.
- Cayenne peppers are very hot, so you don't need more than 2-4 for this recipe.
- You could even use red Thai peppers. They are hot, short, skinny, and red.
- You only need one or two hot cherry peppers. Round to triangular in shape and red. Not to be confused with sweet cherry peppers.
- Jalapenos can turn red, too, and are very popular in their green form.
- There are probably over 100 varieties of hot chili peppers but remember to handle them carefully and don't touch your eyes.
If you are lucky enough to have some bush beans in your garden, use them. If not, then head out to the market.
There is nothing like the fresh, crisp snap of young green beans.
This recipe is for refrigerator pickled green beans not a canning recipe so that will help the house keep cooler too.
Now step back because here is another nicely marinated vegetable appetizer that's not too tart or sweet, it's just right.
Mildly Marinated Cauliflower gets rave reviews!
So you can see I'm serious about good pickled vegetables.
They aren't hard to do and are different from the usual extra choice for an appetizer.
Don't waste this precious time and try to get some green beans pickled as a very nice accompaniment for your get-togethers.
📋 Recipe
Spicy Pickled Green Beans
Ingredients
- 1 pound green beans fresh
- 1 ½ cups white vinegar
- 1 cups water
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 2 teaspoons maple syrup
- 4 cloves garlic peeled
- 4 red chile peppers
- ½ teaspoon dill seed
Instructions
- Wash two pint canning jars and their lids in very hot, soapy water. Rinse well.
- Drop two garlic cloves and ¼ teaspoon dill seed into the bottom of each jar.
- Snap the tips off of the green beans and place to green beans, lengthwise, into the jar so that you can keep the beans in a longer length. Keep the tops of the beans down to about where the shoulder of the jar. You will want to cover them with the liquid and still leave a little space at the top.
- Slip two chili peppers down in between the green beans in each jar.
- In a large pan bring the vinegar and water to a boil. Add the salt and maple syrup and cook another minute.
- Pour the hot liquid over the green beans to just cover. Leave a little space at the top of the jar. Wipe the rims and screw on the lids and rims.
- Set aside to cool. The lids will pop down making a nice seal as the liquid cools.
- Place in the refrigerator and let pickle for 2 days.
- Serve or store for up to 2 weeks in the refrigerator.
Tim Hordo
This is great, I just need some canning jars and I'm in business! Thanks for sharing this and for the clear instructions 🙂
Ginny McMeans
You are very welcome Tim! Glad you found me and this recipe. Come back often.
Bev
I just discovered pickled green beans! And my green beans in my garden are all blooming! I'll have fresh gree beans soon! I'm sure I can leave the pepper out if I wand just dill, tight? Thank So much! It's like Pinterest was reading my mind!
Ginny McMeans
Yes, absolutely leave out the pepper. The recipe will still be great just so heat.
Ginny McMeans
How exciting! I love picking fresh green beans out of the garden. Have a great time enjoying them and thanks Bev!
Elaine Dennid
Can these be canned in water bath method?
Ginny McMeans
Yes Elaine! That would work perfectly.
Billy
I love that you made these spicy! I've seen pickled green beans before but I feel like people are sometimes too scared to add a little bit of heat into their pickle. This sounds delicious! I can't wait to try it at home. Thank you for sharing!
Ginny McMeans
You are very welcome Billy! I too love a bit of heat, just a bit to add a great contrast. Thanks again!
Stephanie
Will these be able to last more than 2 weeks in unopened jars? I am looking for a recipe that will have a good shelf life.
Ginny McMeans
Hi Stephanie. These are refrigerator pickles and they would keep a couple of weeks in the fridge. If you'd like to keep them longer then you would need to can them in a hot water bath.
Ciji
How would I change this to doing a hot water bath then? Just boil for like 20 minutes?
Ginny McMeans
It should be 30 minutes Ciji and would work great!
Alexis
My grocery store didn't have red chili peppers (regular or dried) can anything be used in place of those? Thank you!
Ginny McMeans
They can be hard to find Alexis. To keep a red color in there you could do long slices of red bell pepper and they will pickle right a long with the green beans. For the heat you could add a dash of cayenne, or a few crushed red pepper seeds (they are really hot so be careful, like 1/8 teaspoon).
Soba
Can you use this recipe for other pickling veggies???
Ginny McMeans
Yes, you can Soba. Carrots would be really good too.
Jessica Formicola
These are my kind of green beans! They sounds wonderful!
Lisa
I'd love to stick a few of these in my next bloody mary!
Iryna
I've never made pickled green beens before. However I tried them in the Amish restaurant and they were pretty good. I need to make them one day too.
Angela
These beans sound incredible! Ive never thought to pickle a green bean and now I cant wait to give it a try!
Whitney
I've never thought about pickling green beans! These look fantastic!
Amelie
Good!! I’ll try the recipe with the hit bath method!
Would you let them pickle in the fridge and hot bath them after 2 days or would you hot bath them the day you donthe recipe? Thank you!!!
Ginny McMeans
I'd hot bath them the day of Amelie!
Scott Madding
How many pint jars does this recipe make?
Ginny McMeans
2 pints Scott.
Carol Conway
If you hot bath them, do I still have to keep in the fridge?
Ginny McMeans
No Carol. They will keep a very long time from a hot bath - just shelved. After they are opened then they should be refrigerated.
Michael kohn
Is the cauliflower recipe the same?
Ginny McMeans
No Michael, not at all. The cauliflower is milder and not spicy like the green beans.
Becky Danko
This was a super recipe! Quite easy. Extremely tasty! Only suggestion is 2one cup of water. Other than that, thanks for sharing your recipe.
Rebecca
Can you water bath this recipe?
Ginny McMeans
Sorry, I have not attempted to water bath. Maybe another reader has.
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I have no dill seed can I replace with either celery mustard or coriander seeds