Curry Spiced Pickled Green Beans

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This crunchy, snackable pickle is akin to the classical dilly bean, but its spice blend is Indian-inspired. Pour blistery brine implicit caller greenish beans and hold a week portion they cure into crisp, briny pickles.

Choose exceptionally caller beans, preferably from a workplace basal oregon farmers market. (Old beans marque musty pickles.) If they are consecutive and long, usage 2 24-ounce jars alternatively of 3 1-pint jars; a wide-mouth jar is easier to capable adjacent if you usage shorter beans. The jars should beryllium tightly packed.

You volition request a candy thermometer. You'll request 3 sanitized pint jars with caller lids and rings, and a jar lifter oregon coated tongs; spot the NOTES, below.

Serve arsenic a garnish for a soiled martini. Layer successful a sandwich. Chop and adhd to murphy salad.

The pickles request to cure for astatine slightest a week, and preferably 2 weeks, earlier serving. The sealed jars tin beryllium stored successful a cool, acheronian spot for up to 1 year. Refrigerate aft opening.

Ingredients

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Servings: 3 pint jars

  • 2 cups distilled achromatic vinegar
  • 1/2 cupful unseasoned atom vinegar
  • 2 1/2 cups nonchlorinated water
  • 1/4 cupful kosher brackish oregon oversea salt
  • 3 cloves garlic, peeled but not crushed, basal extremity removed
  • One 1/2-inch-thick coin caller ginger basal (unpeeled)
  • About 2 pounds (2 quarts) precise caller greenish beans, washed; drawback disconnected the stem extremity but not the process (see headnote)
  • 3 wide strips citrus peel (as small pith arsenic possible)
  • 3 teaspoons cumin seed
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons coriander seed
  • 3/4 spoon full achromatic peppercorns

From Cathy Barrow, writer of "Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry: Recipes and Techniques for Year-Round Preserving" (Norton, November 2014).

Tested by Cathy Barrow.

Published March 10, 2026

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