• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

CooksInfo

  • Home
  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar
×
You are here: Home / Legumes / Beans / Wax Beans / Purple Wax Beans

Purple Wax Beans

Purple Wax Beans look funky, but they turn an ordinary green when cooked.

If you want to show off their unique colour — and why not — you’re best to serve these raw or just barely-blanched in salads.

There are two very popular varieties. Both can be planted quite early in the season. Both varieties taste pretty much the same as standard green beans.

Royal Burgundy

Royal Burgundy takes about 55 days from seed being planted to produce pods 5 – 6 inches long (15 cm.)

Purple Queen

Purple Queen will flower 42 days and produce beans about 55 days after seeds are planted. The pods are very deep purple, much darker than Royal Burgundy. Even the leaves on the plant are a purply-green.

Cooking Tips

If you want to blanch these for use in a salad, but still retain their purple colour, plop into boiling water and DO NOT walk away from the stove. Blanch for 1 to 2 minutes, but don’t go over the 2 minute mark. Get them off the stove, drain them, and plunge into cold water to stop them cooking right then and there.

Equivalents

1 pound (450g) purple beans = 30 – 40 beans = 3 1/2 cups untrimmed = 3 cups topped and tailed = 2 3/4 cups chopped.

Storage Hints

Store in the refrigerator for up to 5 days tightly wrapped in a plastic bag.

Freezing: Wash the beans, top and tail them. Cut them up, and blanch in boiling water for 3 minutes (no more!) Plunge into very cold water to cool them, then drain well, pack and freeze for up to 6 months.

History Notes

Developed in the Nantes area of France.

This page first published: Jan 18, 2004 · Updated: Jun 13, 2018.

This web site generates income from affiliated links and ads at no cost to you to fund continued research · Information on this site is Copyright © 2021· Feel free to cite correctly, but copying whole pages for your website is content theft and will be DCMA'd.

Primary Sidebar

Search

Home canning resources

Vist our satellite site Healthy Canning for Home Food Preservation Advice

www.hotairfrying.com

Visit our Hot Air Frying Site

Random Quote

‘Cooking is at once child’s play and adult’s joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.’ — Craig Claiborne (American food writer. 4 September 1920 – 22 January 2000)

Food Calendar

food-calendar-icon
What happens when in the world of food.

NEWSLETTER

Subscribe for updates on new content added.

Footer

↑ back to top

About

  • About this site
  • Privacy Policy
  • Copyright enforced!
  • Terms & Conditions

Newsletter

  • Sign Up! for emails and updates

Site

  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar

This web site generates income from affiliated links and ads at no cost to you to fund continued research · The text on this site is © Copyright.