How to Freeze Peas

We planted 3 rows of sweet peas in our garden, planning on having extras to freeze to use throughout the year. If you want to freeze your own peas, here's a quick guide to do so.

First you need to open all the pods & get the peas out. Madison loves doing that part. We just put them all in a big bucket.

Next you need to blanch the peas. To blanch peas, you dip them in a pot of boiling water for 90 seconds and then immediately put in a bowl of ice water for 90 seconds. This is a picture of our peas after being blanched.


Then put them in a freezer ziplock bag. You want to try to remove the air in the bag to prevent drying & freezer burn. There's two ways to get that extra air out. First way is to zip it so it's almost shut, stick a straw in there and suck out the extra air, then close rest of the way. We did this with our frozen berries and it worked pretty well.

The 2nd way is to dip the bag in water until 1 inch space is left at top. (We just used the same bowl of ice water that we used for blanching.) The pressure from the water will squeeze out most of the air, then seal up the rest of the way.

Place them in the freezer for future use. They'll be good for about 9 months.