Fresh Green Beans with Garlic

Fresh Green Beans with Garlic

  • Prep Time: 5 mins
  • Total Time: 20 mins
  • Servings: 4

    • About This Recipe

    “Good Beans!! lots of taste”

    Ingredients

  • 1lbfresh green beans
  • 2teaspoons butter or 2teaspoonsolive oil
  • 1smallonion, thinly sliced
  • 2clovesgarlic, chopped
  • 1tablespoon fresh thyme (or 1/2 tsp dried) or 1tablespoonoregano( or 1/2 tsp dried)
  • salt
  • cayenne pepper
  • hazelnuts( or your favourite)

    • Directions

  • Trim beans, boil for 4 or 5 minutes until tender crisp- Drain In a cast iron fry pan or saucepan, melt butter add onion and garlic and cook over medium low heat.
  • Stir occasionslly until onion is just tender Stir in beans, tyme salt and cayenne, Heat through.
  • Add nuts just before serving.

    • Reviews

  • “5 star all the way. I steamed my beans for abought 3 minutes, set them aside and a few minutes before serving finished the recipe, I had slivered toasted almonds on hand so used those.Not only a tasty recipe but great appearing as well Thanks Derf another do again recipe”

  • “These green beans were fantastic. I used chopped fresh oregano and about 1/4 c. chopped hazelnuts and a pinch or two of cayenne. Great flavor. Thanks Dorothy.”

  • “Very nice! I plan to try this using diffent nut varieties. This time I used the hazel nuts. Yum YUM !! Thank you !”

  • “These were some of the best green beans I’ve ever eaten!I took someone else’s suggestion and used almonds.Superb!”

  • “This was remarkably good. I made it with 1/2 T of butter and 1/2 T of olive oil, 1/4 tsp of ground thyme (no fresh on hand) and a sprinkling of Parmesan instead of the cayenne and hazelnuts. My older daughter, who has never met a green vegetable that she liked, actually had THIRDS!”

  • “This made a wonderful side dish. I used almonds instead of hazlenuts and the recipe was delicious. I served this with another Recipezaar recipe called Roasted Sticky Chicken. I plan on making this again!”

  • “Wonderful and simple way to prepare green beans,yet with elegant results. I also used almonds in place of the hazelnuts.”

  • “Great recipe; thanks for posting! I made it to accompany the Peking Salmon Maple and Ginger (also found on food.com). I used roasted cashew nuts, a purple onion and dried thyme. Loved it!”

  • “Just found, made & fabulous!!”

  • “Yum!I used a purple onion and slivered almonds.A nice change from the usual.”

  • “Served this with baked tilapia and loved it – it complimented the fish really well.”

  • “Mmmm, very good!I used dried thyme and didn’t have any nuts, so I left those out.This is a great new way to use up all those fresh green beans in the garden.Thanks for posting!”

  • “AMAZING recipe, although I had to make a few substitutions to not having some ingredients on-hand.Used coconut oil, which imparted a very nice subtle taste, toasted chopped walnuts for hazel nuts,and abt 1/2 tsp of dried red peppers due to lack of cayenne.The beans were about 20 min out of the garden-fresh and I’m not sure I’ll want to make fresh green beans any other way now.”

  • “This is the best green bean recipe ever. My son, who hates all vegetables, had 2 servings and then came back to make sure I didn’t throw the leftovers away. We had guests over for dinner an they raved about them. I toasted the hazlenuts (350 for 10 minutes)…definitely use hazelnuts. Substituted shallots for onions and used fresh thyme. I never knew how to properly cook fresh green beans until now. This will be a staple recipe for my family. I can honestly say I have never been excited about a vegetable side dish before now.”

  • “These were great, and my DH loved them too! We’re garlic lovers, so I doubled the garlic. Green beans were cooked, but still crispy. YUM! Thanks for sharing.”

  • “These were amazing!”

  • “Made as directed, cooked in an iron skillet on the grill about 10 minutes, perfect. Thanks for sharing!”

  • “I made these beans as a side dish with Thanksgiving dinner and they were so good that I finished this before anything else!! While the beans were boiling, I sauteed onion first with italian seasoning and salt and pepper…then once then were starting to get soft, added 4 cloves of minced garlic. I added the beans after the onion mix was fully sauteed and returned everything together back on medium heat with extra butter and sauteed until the onions and garlic were caramelized….this brought out a nice sweet flavor and the beans were just so good!!!!”

  • “Really really yummy!My stepson even ate them, which is a challenge in itself for veggies.Thanks!”

  • “This is a great recipe! I subbed slivered almonds for the hazelnuts and omitted the cayenne pepper. I used salt pepper & thyme for seasonings in addition to the garlic & onion. Made kind of a Green Bean Almondine dish. very yummy, probably my favorite fresh green bean recipe to date!”

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