Quick Pickled Green Beans

This spicy quick pickled green beans recipe is an easy and delicious refrigerated pickle vegetable that is both sweet and spicy. It makes a delicious and healthy low carb snack that’s easy to make. So if your looking for a green bean recipe to use produce from the garden try this quick pickle. Ten pieces have just 1.9 grams net carbs.

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My husband is becoming a pickling master using all the peppers and vegetables from his garden. His pickled jalapeño recipe is very popular with friends and families and they often request jars after they finished their last one.

One day he made these spicy quick pickled green beans recipe and I LOVED them! The pickle is spicy, tangy and a bit sweet which goes great with the fresh, crunchy green beans. I don’t even like pickled foods that much but I do love these. You can eat them as is or add to a salad.

And best of all this is a refrigerator pickle which means there is no water canning involved. So you make them in about 10 minutes and pop them in the refrigerator to have on hand as a healthy snack. They are also great for charcuterie boards, Bloody Mary garnish or vegetable plates for parties.

Recipe ingredients and substitutions.

The simple ingredients I used for this recipe are green beans, water, white vinegar, sweetener, kosher salt, fresh garlic cloves, dried oregano, coriander seeds, fresh jalapeno peppers and fresh cayenne peppers.

• Green Beans – Of course this is a great way to use garden green beans but you can also use beans from the store. Aldi carries French green beans which are thinner and already cleaned so they make a great option. You can not use canned but frozen beans will could work if you thaw them completely. Just don’t cook them.
• Spicy Peppers – My husband grows all kinds of hot peppers so the fresh jalapenos and cayenne peppers are from his garden. You can easily find fresh jalapenos in most grocery stores. Even Aldi carries them year round. The cayenne are more for color and you can get all the heat from the jalapenos. Serranos are a good red chili pepper substitute. And if you just want the heat you can use crushed red pepper flakes if you don’t have any peppers.
• Vinegar and Sweetener – It’s best to use distilled white vinegar but you could other simple vinegars like apple cider vinegar but this one is easily available and inexpensive. You can use any kind of sweetener you want. I use Swerve products but you can use your favorite sweetener or just white sugar if you are not on a low carb diet.
• Garlic & Spices – Fresh garlic is a must as it adds the spiciness of the brine. The coriander seeds are also a must as it gives the pickle a special flavor. You could eliminate it but you will be missing that extra bit of citrus and a light sweetness. You could use ground coriander but just use a bit. However the seeds are usually used in a pickle recipe and look nicer too.

You could also play around with the spices. I like this combination but other common pickling spices to choose from are hot chili pepper flakes, dried or fresh dill, black peppercorns, fennel seeds, celery seed, brown mustard seeds, cloves, bay leaf, etc.

How to make spicy quick pickled green beans.

My hubby has a whole technique but I’m going to just give you the nitty gritty details.

1. Clean and trim your green beans and chop the peppers. He used pint size jars like this.
2. Turn the mason jar on the side to stuff the green beans in so they are standing straight and then add the hot peppers on top. 
3. Get out a pot and heat to medium heat. Pour in the cold water and all of the rest of the ingredients except the green beans and hot chili peppers to make the brine. Bring the vinegar mixture to a simmer. Turn off the heat. 
4. Ladle the hot brine over beans in the mason jars.
5. Let them pickled green beans cool off before adding a lid and placing into the refrigerator.

You can eat these quick green bean pickles as is for a healthy snack, or use on charcuterie boards, vegetable plates, as a garnish in Bloody Mary drinks or in salads. Take these crunchy pickles to your next summer cookout or give as a hostess gift. Please scroll down for the printable recipe card.

Note: These are not canned pickled green beans. They are refrigerator pickles. As in they have to be refrigerated but they will keep for quite a long time. My hubby said you wouldn’t want to can them because the green beans and peppers would get soggy. You want them to be crispy and crunchy when you pour the hot brine over top that softens them just the right amount.

I’ve read that refrigerator pickles can last from 2 weeks to 3 months. I personally have kept them up to a month. If you want to be safe you can make smaller batches with smaller, ½ pint size canning jars so you eat them quickly.

It’s so easy to do that you can quickly make them whenever you want. This is a larger batch recipe but you can cut the ingredients in half and just make 2 or 3 jars. Or make the whole batch of pickling liquid keep the leftover brine in the refrigerator and use for another day.

More easy refrigerator pickled veggies to try.

If you liked pickled veggies here an are a few more easy recipes to try and that are very similar to this recipe. So they don’t take long to make and there is no canning involved. Just click on the picture to get to the recipe.

Well I hope you like this refrigerator pickled green beans recipe as much as I do. I mostly posted this for my own use; so I can have the recipe at my fingertips to make these year round.

I keep a plate of them by my computer when I’m working and just crunch on one when I get hungry. Or I throw a few in my salads. I like that it’s low carb but it’s also a healthy food too. Plus the canning process can be overwhelming and these quick pickles are easy and take little time.

The nutritional information is an approximation because it will be dependent on how many green beans you use and how many jars (I used 5 jars).

But the nutrition for about ¼ of a pint jar of quick pickled green beans which is roughly 10 green beans is:  17 calories / 0.1g fat / 2.7g carbs / 0.8g fiber / 0.5g protein = 1.9g net carbs