Fresh green bean recipes

[StanSherman]

We have these starting today:

* Golden Lake Wax

* Burpee's Golden

* Goldfield

* mantra

* Purple Podded

* William's Family Alabama Cutshort

* Anellino Stortino Trento

* Caseknife Pole

* Mennonite Purple Stripe

* Williams River

* Kentucky Wonder 191

* Uncle Steve's It. Pinto

* Fordhook Standard filet

We have a decent size crew with a huge community garden. One of my duties is to assist in menus. By keeping logs we can better tune the bounty and make life easier.

Thanks for any help you wish to provide.

Fresh green bean recipes, We are flooded with beans now.

I flubbed the title and don't know how to fix it.

Edited June 30, 2007 by StanSherman (log)

[little ms foodie]

a favorite salad of mine is blanched green beans tossed with quartered radishes, fresh torn basil leaves in a shallot sherry vinaigrette and parmesean shavings on top!

[tejon]

Here's a recipe for marinated green beans, my all time favorite way of using up fresh green beans. Nice and cool for a hot Summer day.

[BarbaraY]

We had green beans last night. Just blanched and lightly tossed with a little butter.

Tomorrow I'm going to make Salad Niçoise ala Julia Child.

I love green beans so much that I like to keep it simple.

Sometimes a make East Indian Green Bean Sabsi.

[StanSherman]

We had green beans last night. Just blanched and lightly tossed with a little butter.

Tomorrow I'm going to make Salad Niçoise ala Julia Child.

I love green beans so much that I like to keep it simple.

Sometimes a make East Indian Green Bean Sabsi.

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Care to share a recipe? We have 6 requests.

[baroness]

Caramelize some onions, then toss them with lightly steamed new potatoes and string beans.

Dress with a rice or balsamic vinaigrette.

[merstar]

This is excellent:

Citrus Green Bean Salad:

http://www.finerkitchens.com/swap/forum/in...d=1&msgid=55086

Another good one:

Parmesan Green Beans

http://www.finerkitchens.com/swap/forum/in...d=1&msgid=22520

(Note: If you scroll down, you'll see more recipes listed in the thread, but I haven't tried those).

Edited June 30, 2007 by merstar (log)

[chemprof]

I like to coat them with a little olive oil, salt and pepper and put them on the grill until they are done and have a little browned or charred spots. They're good just as a side dish.

I have friend who will let these cool to room temp, and serve them with a chipotle mayo dip as an appetizer.

Anne

[DTBarton]

Sometimes I like to do them the old fashioned southern way my grandmother used to do. Saute some diced bacon and onions, add the green beans, salt and pepper and chicken broth. Then you simmer them way longer than you think you should! She made this in a pressure cooker also, that was the fast way to make slow cooked beans.

[nakji]

Sometimes I blanch some beans, then saute some bacon and garlic in a pan. I drain of a bit of the fat (not too much, though!) and then add some honey, dijon mustard, and red wine vinegar to the pan, making a kind of dressing. Toss the beans in the dressing and serve warm or cool.

[Keith Orr]

Sometimes I like to do them the old fashioned southern way my grandmother used to do. Saute some diced bacon and onions, add the green beans, salt and pepper and chicken broth.  Then you simmer them way longer than you think you should!  She made this in a pressure cooker also, that was the fast way to make slow cooked beans.

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Yes! Yes! Yes!

I also like another slow cooked method - start to brown some shallots or red onions in some olive oil. Add some trimmed and blanched green beans plus some chopped herbs - I like thyme and cook until they're very tender. Serve with a sprinkle of sea salt and fresh ground pepper.

[racheld]

Our first picking of our little bush beans---tiny little things, some less than a foot high---yielded about two gallons of small-to-medium, very tender young beans.

I sorted as I topped---didn't tail this time. The teensiest ones went into a separate bowl, to be blanched for a couple of minutes in salted water, shocked, and then put into a rice vinegar/salt/bit of crushed garlic/brown mustard seed dressing with some paper-thin Vidalia, slivers of roasted red pepper, and the rings of the one little bell pepper I found dropped from the plant. I added a drained can of garbanzos, just for Caro, cause she likes them that way, and I can easily avoid them. It looked pretty, even in the Tupperware.

The larger size beans were snapped and put into the Le Creuset where a big hunka ham had been sizzling for a while, along with a lot of chopped onion getting caramelly in the bottom. Some salt and garlic, a couple of cups of water, and the lid went on. An hour and a half, some tiny red potatoes shorn of one little strip around, dropped in and salted a bit, and another twenty minutes til supper.

That was one gallon---the other Ziploc went to DS#2, who tilled, planted, and hoes the garden. He'll be making stir-fried whole beans with garlic and soy at his house tonight, for my DDIL, who is expecting our little one in September, and who is CRAVING those beans.

[StanSherman]

Sometimes I blanch some beans, then saute some bacon and garlic in a pan. I drain of a bit of the fat (not too much, though!) and then add some honey, dijon mustard, and red wine vinegar to the pan, making a kind of dressing. Toss the beans in the dressing and serve warm or cool.

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Everyone wanted to try this tonight. We had some farm cured bacon, local honey, and Goldfield beans. Nice, really nice. If we were a fine dining establishment we'd be proud to serve what we had tonight.

[nakji]

I'm tickled you enjoyed them. My husband loves beans, and this is one of my favourite ways of cooking them.

Another way I like to do them is to stir-fry them with lots of garlic and a bit of fish sauce. It makes a nice side to lemongrass chicken, or a thai curry.

[Jeff L]

What we like to do in the summer months is to par boil a pound or so of fresh New Jersey green beans, drain pot and add a few cloves of minced garlic and oil. After you smell the garlic add a cup full of fresh diced Jersey tomatoes or good canned ones and put the beans back in. Simmer for about 10 minutes and add some fresh basil at the end.

Edited July 1, 2007 by Jeff L (log)

[kbjesq]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the braised green beans from "All about Braising" by Molly Stevens. I think that Chufi posted a picture of these in the dinner thread. Even though they are called "end of summer green beans", it is such a wonderful recipe that I use it all the time. Especially good with runner beans, I bet!

I also like to prepare new beans by quickly stir-frying (just until they turn bright green) in a bit of sesame oil, with a pinch of salt and sugar. Sprinkle with sesame seeds. Delicious hot or cold.

[BarbaraY]

We had green beans last night. Just blanched and lightly tossed with a little butter.

Tomorrow I'm going to make Salad Niçoise ala Julia Child.

I love green beans so much that I like to keep it simple.

Sometimes a make East Indian Green Bean Sabsi.

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Care to share a recipe? We have 6 requests.

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I spun this off from a recipe of Madhur Jaffry's for Zucchini with Green Pepper Sabzi.

2-3 Tablespoons of oil, or ghee.

1/2 tsp whole cumin seeds

1/4 tsp black mustard seeds

1 1/4 lbs. blanched green beans

2 Tablespoons plain yoghurt

1 Tablespoon ground coriander

1 teaspoon kosher salt

1/2 teaspoon masala

Juice from 1/2 lemon

Heat oil and cook spices till mustard starts to pop.

Add beans and cook for a few minutes then stir in yogurt, coriander, salt, and masala cook and blend for about 1 more minute.

I put the lemon on my own portion because my daughter can't have lemon.

It called for asafetida which I don't have and don't care for.

Edited July 1, 2007 by BarbaraY (log)

[Beebs]

Szechuan green beans with lots of garlic, ginger, and chili always floats my boat!

[Peter B Wolf]

After steaming/boiling your beans to only the al Dente state ( still crisp ), drain well, and, I never shock mine in icewater !! , spread out on a couple of paper towels o absorb excess water.

Saute a couple diced slices of double smoked bacon in some fresh butter, salt pepper, and fresh snipped Bohnenkraut (Summer Savory) add Beans and toss, do not forget to eat.

"Bohnenkraut", literally translated from German as "Bean Weed".

If you have fresh available, remove leaves from stems for later (cooked Beans) addition, but take the stems and pound them flat like you would with some flowers when putting them into a vase. Now add the stems to the first cooking liquid and its flavor will seep into your beans.

Added note: American summer savory does not seem to have the same potentsy as European Summer Savory ( Bohnenkraut ).

[Shalmanese]

Balsamic Glazed Green Beans:

Saute green beans over medium high heat until they're wilted and there are little specks of brown and black on them, about 15 minutes or so. Then, add in some fine slivers of garlic and toss for a minute and then deglaze with a healthy glug of balsamic vinegar. Toss for another 30 seconds until the vinegar is reduced down to a nice glaze and then serve. The key is to cook the green beans long enough so they they're soft and nicely charred.

[StanSherman]

Barbara, We are going to try your recipe tomorrow. I'll give you feedback.

[ruthcooks]

Here's a link for Summer Succotash on my website (the website is woefully non-updated but the recipes are still great!).

Using baby green beans instead of limas, fresh corn, cream and chives, it's a delicate, fresh version.

[Kouign Aman]

Blanch lightly.

Saute in olive oil with minced garlic.

Season with lemon juice and pepper.

Top with toasted pinenuts.

Toasting the pinenuts ~ doubles the total time from start to finish. The little boogers burn fast.

[jdtofbna]

How about dill pickled green beans? Sterilize tall jars (I like those Ball quilted jars, I think they're 12-oz), put a garlic clove, pinch of red pepper flakes, 1/4 tsp dill seed, and a dill bloom head if available in each jar, then pack with washed fresh whole green beans. Boil 1 qt. white vinegar, 1 cup water and 1/2 cup pickling salt and pour into jars. Top with sterilized lids and process in a hot water bath. Makes for great snacking and lovely bloody mary garnish!

[StanSherman]

We made Sabzi last night. We have some marinating tonight as we process 25 pints for the pantry. It's 107 right now so we have to wait until about 9pm to go harvest more.