Ideas for green beans anyone?

[kismetbaby]

I have about 3lbs of green beans from my CSA. . .anyone have any fab recipes to share?

I'd love to find a recipe or two that uses them in a main dish, instead of just as a side. . .I tend to cook one-pot meals and having to figure out mains and sides gets too complicated for cooking with a 12 month old at my feet!

[nathansmum]

I tend to chuck them into one pot meals in place of other greens.

Also, I've made Green Bean Dip before that is yummy (sorry, don't have a recipe though). I was able to freeze it in portions too.

[griffin2004]

not a main dish, but incredibly delicious: Green Beans with Bacon Balsamic Vinaigrette

http://fortheloveofcooking-recipes.b...-balsamic.html

[HappyMommy2]

My friend used to cook them for hours with water, a ton of pepper and a sliced up potato that would just melt in and make a thick sauce. Yummy!

[miss_nikki]

I just made some last night with pine nuts, olive oil, and salt and pepper. It was really good. Here is the recipe:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/b...pe2/index.html

[LauraN]

ETA: I am SO embarassed. I came to this thread from the New Posts and didn't realize it was the veg*n area!! Still, I'll leave it because my Lebanese BIL was vegetarian for a while and my MIL still made this recipe, substituting cubed potatoes for the meat. I would personally use a non-MSG veggie broth in place of beef buillon and add cinnamon. I hope I didn't accidentally offend anyone.

A Lebanese recipe my MIL makes, green bean stew: http://www.grouprecipes.com/6078/leb...meat-stew.html.

It does NOT need to cook for two hours, just until everything is cooked. I would personally skip the buillon cubes (we don't do MSG) and would just add garlic powder instead. Also, if you don't have allspice, a smaller amount of nutmeg works.
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[motherhendoula]

garlic lemon green beans!
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/n...ipe/index.html

[susumama]

My Lebanese ex-mother-in-law taught me a traditional recipe "Lubia Bi Zayt"
It is soooooo much yummier than the ingredients suggest.

I just do all measuring by eye but will try to approximate measurements - you just multiply or subtract depending on how many people you are feeding.

500gm green beans cut into 5cm (2 inch) pieces
3-4 ripe tomatoes diced or a can of diced tomatoes
4 cloves garlic (or to taste)
1 large onion diced
2 heaped teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
3/4 cup water
olive oil
Hand full of chopped fresh parsley (or coriander)

Fry the onion in a liberal amount of olive oil until transparent. Add garlic, fry until fragrant (until that raw smell has gone), add tomatoes, sugar, salt, pepper and water. Stir to mix thoroughly and put a lid on the pan (frying pan works best) and simmer for 15 minutes. Add beans, stir to coat. Replace lid and cook (slowly simmering) until beans are WELL cooked, stiring occassionally. Add more water if needed - but it's rarely needed. Check for salt and pepper and stir thru parsley before serving.

It's so easy and the ingredients so simple but I am ALWAYS asked for the recipe. I've served it as a side and as a main over rice or pasta. It also lends itself to a one pot meal. I've added chopped, fried eggplant (aubergine), chunky cut potato, chick peas, a can of lentils, chopped spinach you name it, just try to keep the veggies mediteranian (sp?) or Arabic. Our family favourite is the green beans, eggplant and chick peas on rice. It's also great cold as a salad stuffed in pita bread with hommous.

[kismetbaby]

Thanks! These look yummy. . .I'm inspired to cook with my green beans now.

[GoGoGirl]

Maple mustard glazed potatoes and string beans from VWAV! I make them with all beans (no potatoes).

[craft_media_hero]

here's what we've been doing with our csa green beans:

start sauteing green beans in a little cooking oil, shake on some garlic powder or use minced fresh garlic
when approximately 1/3 done, squirt in some braggs and cover to allow beans to steam
approximately 2/3 done, shake in some broken walnut pieces (sunflower seeds are really good, too)
squeeze in some lemon juice if you have it, re-cover
continue to let steam under the lid
in the last few minutes of cooking, slice a tomato on top and heat through
YUM!
All the cooking liquid makes this delicious broth at the bottom of the pan which is best sopped up by fresh bread and also very good served on rice enjoy!

[SilverFish]

Originally Posted by griffin2004

not a main dish, but incredibly delicious: Green Beans with Bacon Balsamic Vinaigrette

http://fortheloveofcooking-recipes.b...-balsamic.html

really? in a veg*n forum?

anyway, i'm jealous, i LOVE green beans. i could eat them every day.
one of my favourite dishes is spicy green beans... heat a frying pan quite high and sear your beans with a touch of olive oil and some coarse salt. when you have some nice brown bits on the beans, toss in chili flakes, and a sprinkle of lemon. you can close the lid on the pan for a minute or two to steam finish the beans. its a Hakka dish (indian/chinese) so goes well with rice and chinese style mushroom or tofu dishes. mmmm.

[mumkimum]

I've seen veg versions of stroganoff done with green beans before. Here's one that's vegan (you could google around until you find one you like best.)


If you have veganomicon - I've been making the peanut-eggplant stew in there a lot lately (glut of CSA eggplants here this year) but it also uses green beans, and is a pretty good recipe.

[HollyBearsMom]

not a main dish but one of my favorites! These are really good cold so I make a double batch just to have some in the fridge to snack on!

1 lb green beans, tipped and tailed
6 garlic cloves,
2 scallions, trimmed and cut into small pieces
1/4 tsp ground ginger
1 TBS vegetable or olive oil
1 tsp red pepper flakes (more or less to taste)
1 TBS low sodium soy sauce
1 TBS rice wine vinegar but balsmac works well too

In food proccessor finely chop garlic, ginger and scallions together.

Place in 14” x 11” x 2” dish, add oil and stir to mix. Cook mixture in micro on high for 3 minutes. Remove dish from oven, add soy sauce and rice wine vinegar and stir. Add green beans, toss well to coat. Cook in the micro, uncovered for 15 minutes, stirring 3-4 times during cooking.