Garlic Stringgreen Beans Fit For Life Recipes

Steps:

• Fill saucepan with water, when boiling, add green beans and cook for about 2 minutes, until just crunchy.
• Rinse immediately under cold water.
• Alternately, you can cook the beans in the microwave for a few minutes until heated through.
• Put margarine in pan and melt, add slivered almonds and toast, as the almonds begin to turn brown add lots of garlic.
• Add green beans and toss quickly.

Steps:

• Blanch the string beans in a large pot of boiling salted water for just 1 1/2 minutes. Drain immediately and immerse in a large bowl of ice water to stop the cooking. When they are cool, drain and set aside.
• Heat the butter and olive oil in a very large saute pan over medium heat and cook the garlic for 1 to 2 minutes, tossing occasionally, until lightly browned. Add the string beans, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and toss together. Reheat the string beans and serve.

Steps:

• In large heavy saucepan, heat oil.
• Add garlic and beans, and saute over high heat to sear beans, stirring frequently so they do not burn.
• Add thyme, sea salt, and pepper to taste.
• Add water and bouillon.
• Bring to boil, cover tightly, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer for 20-30 minutes or until beans are tender when pierced with tip of sharp knife.
• Add more water, if necessary.
• Frozen beans will take only half the time.
• Add squeeze of lemon juice and toss well.
• Original recipe states it serves 2 but it easily will serve four as a side dish.

Steps:

• In a skillet, cook bacon until crisp. Remove bacon; crumble and set aside. Drain, reserving 1 tablespoon drippings. Add beans, water, onion and seasonings to drippings; bring to a boil. Cook, uncovered, until beans are tender, 15-20 minutes. Discard bay leaf. Stir in bacon.

Steps:

• In a large skillet over medium heat, melt butter with olive oil; add garlic, and cook until lightly browned, stirring frequently. Stir in green beans, and season with salt and pepper. Cook until beans are tender, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat, and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.

Steps:

• In a 15x10x1-in. baking pan, toss green beans, oil, garlic and Italian seasoning until beans are well coated. Bake, uncovered, at 450° for 12-15 minutes or until beans are crisp-tender and lightly browned, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.

Steps:

• Bring 2 cups salted water to a boil in a saucepan. Add the beans, bring the water back to a boil and simmer 6 to 8 minutes. The beans should be crisply tender. Do not overcook. Drain.
• Place the oil and butter in the same saucepan. Add the garlic and cook briefly. The garlic should remain white. Add the beans and chives, and salt and pepper to taste. Toss to blend.

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
• Fill a large bowl with ice water.
• Working in two batches, boil beans until just tender but still crisp and bright green.
• Start testing after 4 minutes or so, being careful not to overcook.
• When done, plunge beans into ice water to stop cooking, lift out immediately when cool and drain on towels. (Recipe can be made to this point up to a day in advance and kept refrigerated, wrapped in towels.).
• When ready to cook, heat 2 tablespoons oil in a wide skillet over high heat.
• Add half the beans, half the ginger and half the garlic, and cook, stirring and tossing constantly, until beans are heated through and ginger and garlic are softened and aromatic.
• Sprinkle with salt, and remove to a serving dish.
• Repeat with remaining oil, beans, ginger and garlic. Serve.

Steps:

• In a pan put your string beans and potatoes.
• Pour enough water to go up about 1/2 way.
• Add salt.
• Cover.
• And bring to a boil.
• Cook until potatoes and beans are tender.
• Drain water into a large measuring cup.
• Take a small iron skillet, melt butter, add enough flour to make a roux to thicken the beans with.
• When the roux is a good golden color add the garlic and saute but do not brown the garlic.
• Add some of the bean/potato liquid to the roux and stir constently until you get the consistency of sauce you would like for your beans.
• Before you add the sauce, use your wooden spoon.
• With the back of the spoon mash a few of the potatoes so they will blend with the sauce, but leave others whole.
• Mix everything together and cook just a few moments until the beans and potatoes have taken on a little of the flavor of the sauce.
• Taste to make sure there is enough salt.
• If not this is the time to add it.
• Last but not least just before serving stir in 1 Tblsp. sour cream.

Steps:

• Place green beans into a large skillet and cover with water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until beans start to soften, about 5 minutes. Drain water. Add butter to green beans; cook and stir until butter is melted, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Cook and stir garlic with green beans until garlic is tender and fragrant, 3 to 4 minutes. Season with lemon pepper and salt.

Steps:

• Wash and trim fresh string beans.
• Add string beans to a pot of boiling water.
• Cook until soft and drain water.
• In large frying pan, heat butter and olive oil over medium heat and add minced garlic.
• Let garlic sautee in butter and oil until a light golden brown and add string beans.
• Stir, coating all the string beans with butter and oil.
• Sprinkle string beans with bread crumbs and stir, coating all of the string beans.
• (If it's a little dry add some more oil) Sprinkle with parmesan cheese, oregano, salt and pepper.
• Serve immediately.

Steps:

• In large heavy saucepan, heat oil. Add garlic and beans, and saute' over high heat to sear beans, stirring frequently so they do not burn. Add thyme, sea salt, and pepper to taste. Add water and veegtable broth. Bring to a boil, cover tightly, reduce heat to med.-low, and simmer for 20-30 minutes or until beans are tender when pierced with tip of sharpe knife. Add more water, if necessary. frozen beans will take half the time. Add lemon juice, toss well.