Butter Garlic Green Beans

4 Jul

Butter Garlic Green Beans

Butter garlic green beans – a quick and easy side dish to go with your meals. Here’s a step by step recipe with pictures.

This recipe uses the French bean or haricot vert. You could substitute with another variety of fresh beans if you wish; adjust the cooking time according to the toughness of the bean.

Buttery Green Breans with Garlic

You Need:

[For 2-3 servings]

  • Fresh green beans – 250 grams
  • Garlic – 6 small cloves (~1 teaspoon, finely chopped)
  • Butter – 1/2 tablespoon
  • Salt – 1 teaspoon for parboiling + to taste for seasoning
  • Pepper corns – 7-8 (adjust to heat preference)
  • Olive oil – 1 teaspoon

How To Make Butter Garlic Green Beans:

1. Chop and parboil

Wash green beans.

Green Beans Washing

Chop the beans into 1-cm pieces.

Green Beans Cut

Bring three cups of water to a boil. Stir in a teaspoon of salt, add the chopped green beans to the boiling water. Simmer for two minutes, then drain out the water and immediately transfer the beans into a bowl of cold water. [This hot-and-cold shock treatment softens the beans and brings out their green color.]

Don’t be alarmed by quantity of salt in the boiling water. It will all get drained out!

Strain the beans and set aside.

Parboiled Green Beans

2. Prep the seasonings

Peel and finely chop garlic cloves.

Garlic Cloves

Crush pepper corns.

Crushed Black Pepper

3. Cook!

Heat a teaspoon of olive oil in a non-stick pan. Add garlic to the hot oil.

Garlic Frying

When the garlic turns golden, transfer parboiled green beans to the pan. Saute on medium heat, stirring or tossing off and on, for 4-5 minutes. Add pepper and salt to taste.

Green Beans Sauteeing

Add a dollop of butter to the beans.

Green Beans with Butter

Stir and mix. Cook another minute, then take the pan off the heat.

Butter garlic green beans is ready to serve.

Butter Garlic Green Beans

Notes:

You’ll notice that I did not use butter as a cooking medium in this recipe; instead, I added butter as the beans were almost done. You’ll find this helps to give this dish an aromatic buttery flavor without using too much butter!

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4 Responses to “Butter Garlic Green Beans”

  1. Kumki August 18, 2020 at 11:06 PM #

    Butter and garlic come together to lend a lovely flavor to this dish. Thanks for the recipe!

    • S August 21, 2020 at 9:40 AM #

      Thanks for the feedback, Kumki!

  2. Kritika B October 5, 2021 at 7:17 PM #

    Yummy bean recipe! Love how you have managed to have the color bright green in the end!! My beans turn brown on cooking.

    • S October 10, 2021 at 1:22 AM #

      Thank you Kritika!

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