Green Beans

  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Total Time: 32 mins
  • Servings: 4
  • About This Recipe

    “This is a great recipe for those fresh from the garden green beans.”

    Ingredients

  • 1lbgreen beans
  • 4tablespoonsbutter
  • 1/4 cupolive oil
  • 1/2 mediumonion, finely sliced
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 1/4 cupschicken stock
  • 1tablespoonminced garlic
  • Directions

  • Place the beans in a pan of boiling salted water and cook for 6-8 minutes until firm but not raw, drain well
  • Melt the butter in a pan, add the olive oil and heat, adding the onion and cooking for 3-4 minutes.
  • Add the beans, salt and pepper to taste and toss.
  • Add the chicken stock and garlic.
  • Cover and cook for about 10 minutes until tender.
  • Season well if desired and serve.
  • Reviews

  • “This recipe takes little ingredients and is so simple to prepare.It tastes great and makes an awesome side dish.”

  • “Very delicious way to cook green beans! I realized mid-reicpe that my last head of garlic wasn’t looking so good, so had to substitute garlic powder. It turned out great! Next time I will try real garlic but this worked just fine as well. Not a bean left in the pot by the time dinner was over – and there were only 2 of us!”

  • “My husband LOVED it!! He said that it reminded him of his Grandma’s recipe!! Thanks so much for sharing!!!”

  • “I’m not a veggie person, however these beans are very good and easy to throw togeather. All who tried them in our house liked them.”

  • “I made these green beans for Thanksgiving and everyone enjoyed them.Very simple to make and very tasty.Thanks for the recipe, Erin.”

  • “These beans are incredibly good!Cooked them for Thanksgiving(Canadian) with sesame carots, mashed potatoes and chicken with sage and onion stuffing(small crowd).They were awesome – a really different savoury flavour, with the beans really taking on the flavour of the garlic and onion.Thanks for the recipe!”

  • “Very delicious! We have the at least once a week!”

  • “This recipe was easy and it was also a change from the usual.”

  • “Very easy tasty beans -I only boiled them for 3 minutes and cooked them in the chicken stock for 8 minutes – I like them crunchy. It is amazing how a couple of ingredients can enhance the flavor of the beans. Thanks Miss Erin for a lovely veggie recipe”

  • “Very delicious way to cook green beans. The chicken stock and garlic add so much to the flavor. I also like the easy preparation. Thanks Miss Erin. “

  • “They are so delicious and easy to make. I eliminated the butter and did 2 tbs of olive oil rather than 1/4 cup. I reccomend trying this substitute because I still found that it was a bit too much oil for my taste. “

  • “Excellent savory flavor.I omitted the butter for dietary reasons, and didn’t miss it.The only thing I will do different next time, is to boil them for half the time indicated, to keep some of the tendercrisp texture that I like in fresh green beans.”

  • “Simple to make and so delicious.As a variation, I added slices of chicken.Instead of the broth I used 1/2 cup water with one buillion cube.”

  • “Oh man, these were really good.I normally prefer can green beans instead of fresh because I don’t like the taste of fresh green beans.This recipe has changed that! I made this along with some pork chops (recipe #30173)and it was good.I will be making these again…thanks for getting me to eat my vegetables!”

  • “Good green beans. Thanks for the recipe!”

  • “Great recipe and so simple!!!!I made the green beans for Thanksgiving and used beef stock since I did not have chicken stock and it came out very tasty and I got compliments on it from non-vegetable lovers.I also added almond slivers once the green beans were done as a garnish.Thanks for posting this recipe.”

  • “Really good! I doubled the green beans, onions, and garlic but kept the other ingredients the same. Thanks for sharing the recipe!”

  • “Ditto all other reviews – this was so easy to make and tasted great.Don’t change a thing!!!”

  • “Wow – I didn’t realize I was supposed to add all that butter and oil until I had already made the recipe.I just sauted the onions (and some mushrooms which were a great addition) in a little bit of butter (maybe 1 T) and I didn’t miss the oil or the remaining butter at all.”

  • “Tasty!I used beef broth, frozen beans and 2 tbsp butter and thought they were good.Thanks for a great easy recipe!”

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