Lemon and Garlic Green Beans
This is a very easy, but delicious recipe from Everyday Italian. Sometimes the simple recipes are the most satisfying!
Brown a handful of pine nuts in a hot skillet. Remove to a small bowl. In the same skillet saute 3 or 4 cloves of garlic in a drizzle of olive oil for just a minute. Add 1 quart of canned green beans, drained, or a pound of fresh green beans. Canned green beans just need to heat through; cook fresh green beans until tender but crisp. Zest a lemon into strips. Add roasted pine nuts. Season with salt and pepper. Enjoy!
mmm yummy
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Mmmm….I’m like this one too and thinking it will be my green bean dish! I do like simple, quality fresh ingredients – that’s what makes a dish taste amazing. I will leave out the canned beans tho and go all fresh!!
I would have used fresh – just one of those drawbacks to living in a small town. It’s sometimes difficult finding good fresh green beans at this time of year!
This looks like something that you’d find in a trattoria in Rome somewhere. Fresh ingredients combined simply. It doesn’t get much better than this.
Thanks, John! This is my favorite way to fix green beans!
If it hadn’t been such a poor bean season, I’d be doing this with frozen beans from the garden…stupid hurricane…
I love the pine nuts – great addition!
The pine nuts are great! We don’t have enough room to grow green beans – and many other things! Tomatoes, herbs, leeks and a pepper plant is the extent of our garden!
Yes, I had an au gratin recipe the other day, but with beans, simpler is always better. This looks fantastic.
Thanks, Greg! I thought your green beans looked very good – especially with a slice of turkey to compliment their creaminess!
I just love garlic, so with a green veg and some iron-rich pine nuts thrown in this is definitely a dish for me! AND it’s easy to prepare!
It is an excellent side dish – or main dish! I agree, I love anything with garlic!