Green Beans Recipes

Keep summer's freshest green beans around a bit longer by making quick refrigerator pickles.

Dress up your green beans. Miso is a perfect replacement for butter in most sauteed dishes and offers a nice earthy, salty note to the beans.

Crunchy almonds and sweet caramelized onions dress up your favorite green beans. A drizzle of balsamic adds a tangy contrast.

Green beans and onions are lightly sautéed in only one tablespoon of oil.

Yummy side dish

The trick to learning to like vegetables you hate is to disguise their appearance and flavor. Think about what it is you dislike about that particular vegetable.
I asked Fred why he's anti-green beans. It turns out that he remembers the long, mushy canned beans from childhood.
Step 1: Chop the beans into 1-inch pieces.
Step 2: Change texture. Sauté them in a bit of olive oil, salt and pepper on high heat until they're crispy on the outside and still slightly firm.
Step 3: Change the flavor: Add pesto (with homemade lemony basil from the co-op) and an extra bit of parmesan cheese!
Results: "Is this pasta?" Fred asks as I hand him a plate of beans.

Really quick and very easy

Soy sauce and red pepper flakes dial up green beans!

This recipe is to replace the green beans you get at most/all Chinese Buffets including Panda Express and many others. They are a hit with everyone, every time I make them... even my picky picky picky people that I have to feed!

[EDIT: After noticing everyone commenting on the sodium, I realized that I didn't add the 'lite' soy sauce that I use - I had added regular! Fixed it now :) ]

This Italian green bean recipe is my favorite way to eat green beans. It's incredibly simple and delicious!

This recipe is adapted from one Padma Lakshmi submitted to a magazine around the holidays.

The bacon really adds flavor.
Cook in the crock all day for a great flavored tender bean!

Lots of veggies, very few calories. Takes little to no skill, and the hardest thing is not eating the bacon while the green beans cook. Try serving this instead of the creamy, fatty green bean casserole at holidays.

Potato salad gets a French twist with chunks of Swiss cheese, bacon, eggs, and a tangy Dijon dressing. Served warm, this salad is a hearty side dish or light lunch.

A soul-satisfying pasta dish with the snap of fresh green beans in a creamy tomato-pesto sauce!

Lots of veggies, very few calories. Takes little to no skill, and the hardest thing is not eating the bacon while the green beans cook. Try serving this instead of the creamy, fatty green bean casserole at holidays.

Makes enough to cover 2 quarts of produce with brine. The nutritional info is figured with green beans but the same brine can be used on cucumbers to be canned.

tender-crisp green beans good as a side dish , tastes awesome with anything !!! serve with white rice and hard-boiled eggs sprinkled with pepper,salt and dill

A small dinner for one.

Skinless Boneless Chicken Split Chicken Breasts slow cooked in Canned Diced Tomatoes which were spiked with Green Peppers and Onions in the Slow Cooker topped with Cut Green Beans

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This is delishious and you can make them grilled or sauted!

This is an awesome low carb side dish, with healthy fats. You can always substitute the Blue Cheese for Feta Cheese if you prefer one over the other. For an extra treat thrown in some Cranberries...Yummmm

This was my attempt to have black bean sweet potato enchiladas without the hassle of rolling up the enchiladas, making a sauce and using the oven. These cakes are not like pancakes, but like hash browns, creamy in the center.

Very easy, healthy and quick meal

So tasty and healthy. Great as a side dish or veggie entree.

Yummy change for green beans
This recipe uses whole-grain mustard which is not in the SparkPeople data base.

green beans, red peppers and onions sauteed in olive oil

This is an updated lower calorie version of an old family Southern favorite. If you are fortunate enough to have a country ham you must use some of the little bits that are trimmed off to flavor your greens. If you don't have country ham then any ham will do. Go for the lean parts and this will be a healthy recipe.