The Best Fermented Green Beans with Ginger and Scallions

You can make these probiotic-packed fermented green beans at home with just salt, water, fresh green beans, and spices. Fermenting green beans requires a kitchen scale for measuring ingredients and two weeks of fermentation at room temperature.

Prep: 10 minutes
Total Time: 336 hours 10 minutes

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Ingredients

325 grams fresh green beans
425 grams water
10 grams grated ginger root
30 grams scallions, chopped
A pinch of red pepper flakes
32 grams sea salt

Instructions

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Cut the ends off the green beans and rinse them well in cool water.
Measure your salt and water. Dissolve the salt in the water.
Add the green beans, ginger, and scallions to the 1-quart mason jar, and fill the jar with the water and salt mixture.
Place your fermentation weight in the jar and make sure the weight and all the green beans are submerged in the salt brine.
Place the mason jar lid on the jar and secure it closed.
Allow for fermentation at room temperature for 2 weeks.
During the first three days, expect a lot of carbon dioxide production. You will need to gently open the jar lid to let some of the gas out daily. At the one week mark, you should notice the bubbles decreasing and eventually stopping completely at two weeks.
Check the pH at two weeks to ensure it is below four. Once it is, store the fermented green beans in the fridge.

Notes

This recipe requires a higher salt concentration to prevent the growth of kahm yeast. Green beans are high in the FODMAPs sorbitol and mannitol that can encourage yeast growth. A 4% to 5% salt concentration usually controls this.
This recipe is sized to fit a 32-ounce mason jar at 1x.
Do not use triple-washed green beans. Triple-washed, bagged vegetables do not have the microbes necessary to initiate fermentation.
I suggest using a wide-mouth mason jar.
It’s best to set the fermentation jar in a glass baking dish to catch any liquid that seeps out while it’s bubbling.
The green beans will keep in the fridge for a year or two.

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