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Blanching simply means to quickly boil foods (typically vegetables, fruits, or nuts) without fully cooking them. The blanched foods are then placed in a bowl of ice water for shocking (another cooking ...

You can do so many things with green beans, from making them with lemon and garlic to cooking up a classic green bean casserole, and even pickling them-- there are plenty of ways to add different ...

Beans are a pantry staple, serving as a wallet-friendly solution to boosting your meals with plant-based protein and nutrients. Among the bean family, fava beans have been celebrated as one of the ...

The difference between a gorgeous, appealing bowl of green beans and an unsavory, mushy mess comes down to how they’re cooked. Learn how to blanch green beans and no one at the dinner table will ever ...

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Blanching refers to quickly cooking vegetables in rapidly boiling water to set the color, soften just a bit or prepare the fresh produce for freezing. The advantage for freezer-bound produce is that ...

Not knowing how to boil water is the standard shorthand for culinary incompetence. There are, in fact, important lessons to learn from blanching, a basic technique that lies only one ingredient and ...