Best Green Beans Almondine - Easy Side Dish for Dinner
Best Green Beans Almondine Recipe: Simple and easy to make, yet total crowd-pleaser dish ready in less than 15 minutes. The toasted almonds add the perfect crunch and nuttiness to the tender green beans. Serve this green bean almondine as a side dish for a weeknight meal, or add it to your holiday menu.
Servings: 6
Calories: 150kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- 16 oz Green beans 450 grams, trim the ends
- 3 tablespoon Butter olive oil for vegan version
- ½ cup Almonds sliced or slivered
- ¼ teaspoon Salt adjust to taste
- 5 Garlic cloves minced or finely chopped
- ¼ teaspoon Pepper powder
- ½ Lime or lemon juice
- Zest of 1 Lime or Lemon
Instructions
Blanch green beans
- Cook the green beans in a large pot of salted boiling water for 4 to 6 minutes or until tender yet crisp and bright green.16 oz Green beans
- Drain and rinse under cold water. This helps retain the green color and also to stop cooking further.
Toast the almonds
- Add butter to pan on medium heat. Once the butter melts, add almonds with salt and saute until it becomes light in color and crispy.3 tablespoon Butter, ½ cup Almonds, ¼ teaspoon Salt
- Add garlic and saute for 30 seconds to a minute, and switch off the flame.5 Garlic cloves
Toss
- To this, add blanched green beans, salt if needed, pepper powder, lemon juice, and zest, and toss till everything is combined.¼ teaspoon Pepper powder, ½ Lime or lemon juice, Zest of 1 Lime or Lemon
- Serve this with risotto, your favorite pasta or holiday chicken roast or turkey roast or for a quick weeknight meal with chicken patties.
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Notes
- If you are making this for Thanksgiving or a Christmas meal, you can blanch the green beans a day in advance.
- Instead of dry roasting almonds, toast them in butter. Adds more flavor to the dish.
- Make sure you cook the green beans in salted boiling water so that it is seasoned well both in and out.
- Never overcook the green beans.
- Instead of almonds, pecans, walnuts, or even cashew nuts can be used.
- You can also garnish it with extra parmesan cheese if desired.
- Depending on how thin or thick your green beans are, the cooking time varies.
- While toasting almonds, see that the flame is medium, and make sure you keep an eye on them all the time and do not burn them.
- Make this recipe vegan by using olive oil instead of butter.
Nutrition
Calories: 150kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 15mg | Sodium: 147mg | Potassium: 271mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 703IU | Vitamin C: 13mg | Calcium: 70mg | Iron: 1mg