Posts Tagged ‘Green Beans’
French Green Beans with Butter and Herbs-Green Recipe
French Green Beans
Ever see those skinny little green beans in the market? They’re a French variety of green beans, also known as haricot vert, or filet beans. Haricot verts are more delicate than regular green beans and cook up more quickly. This is a simple recipe in which you blanch the beans first, and then sauté them quickly in a little butter with onions and fresh garden herbs. If you can’t find haricot verts, you can use regular fresh green beans, just boil them a little longer.
Do you have a method of preparing haricot verts? Please let us know about it in the comments.
Use fresh herbs if available. If not, you can used dried, but use a quarter as much.
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Green Beans with Almonds and Thyme-Green Recipe
Green Beans with Almonds and Thyme
Green beans are the labradors of the vegetable world, they just seem to get along with everyone. Which is why you will usually find some incarnation of green beans on a holiday dinner menu. This simple preparation of green beans, with butter, thyme, and toasted almonds, comes from my friend Heidi in Carlisle Mass, and over the years has become one of my favorites.
Green Beans with Shallots and Pancetta-Green Recipe
Green Beans with Shallots and Pancetta
It doesn’t take much to dress up green beans for a holiday meal. In this recipe the beans first blanched and then sautéed with pancetta and shallots, with some salt and freshly ground black pepper for seasoning. You can use thinly sliced onion in place of the shallots or substitute bacon or diced ham for the pancetta if that is what you have on hand.
The secret to delicious green beans is using beans that are crispy fresh to begin with. Bend one in half; if it breaks easily, it’s fresh, if it just bends, without breaking, then it’s a little passed its prime and you’ll have a tougher time getting the beans to turn out well. The second tip is to not overcook the green beans (though if they are older, you might have to cook them longer than usual to get them tender), and to douse them in an ice water bath after boiling to seal in their bright green color and to stop the cooking.
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Mexican Green Beans Salad-Green Recipe
Mexican Green Beans Salad
One of our favorite ways to eat mexican green beans is with salsa. The tomatoes, onions, chiles, spices, and vinegar perk up the beans in the most wonderful way. This bean salad recipe is sort of a riff on the salsa theme, taking it up a notch with pickled jalapeños, cilantro, cotija cheese, and avocados. It would make a perfect picnic salad for a Mexican themed potluck. If you love Mexican food, I’m willing to bet you’ll love this mexican green beans salad as much as we do.