Garlicky green beans with lemon
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Fresh is the key to this lovely side dish.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
- 500 grams fresh green beans
- 1 lemon, zest and juice
- 2 Tbs. olive oil
- 3 cloves fresh garlic, sliced thinly
- salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
- If the green beans are young, you can leave them whole, and just trim of the stem edge.
- I prefer to steam then, only until they are al dente.
- Meanwhile, slice the garlic very thinly.
- In a small sauce pan, heat the oil.
- When the oil is hot, drop the garlic in and stir until the garlic becomes golden. Be careful to watch the garlic, as it only takes a couple of minutes, and you don’t want to brown it.
- Zest the lemon and after zesting, juice it.
- Mix the lemon juice with the olive oil.
- Add salt and pepper and lemon zest (reserving a bit as garnish) pour over the green beans and mix well.
- Serve warm.
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What’s great is I just got a bunch of green beans, I have a lemon in the fridge and garlic – always! My Mom loves green beans so much. She asks about them all the time so I finally got some really lovely little haricots vert for her. Great recipe as usual!
That sounds like a fabulous and fresh way to enjoy green beans! I just bought a lot of them at the farmers market, so this will be on the menu soon! I LOVE garlic, and lemon is so fresh and good…I also have some dill from the farmers market I might toss in as well. Thanks for the recipe!
Courtney