Best Buttery Garlic Green Beans | Christmas, Thanksgiving Green Beans

easy lemon garlic butter green beans recipe

5 from 2 votes

Best Buttery Garlic Green Beans | Christmas, Thanksgiving Green Beans

Easy butter garlic sautéed green beans recipe is so simple to make yet tastes amazingly delicious that you can make it frequently as your dinner side.

What is Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner without atleast one recipe with green beans?

Prep Time5

Cook Time10

Total Time15

Course: Dinner, Lunch, Side Dish, sides

Cuisine: American, Indian

Servings:

Calories: 100kcal

Author: Kushi

Equipment

1 Pan
1 Pot

Ingredients

1 Pound Fresh green beans (500 gram)
2 tablespoon Butter
6 to 8 Garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 tablespoon Spring onions or Green onions
Juice of 1 lemon
¼ teaspoon Salt

Instructions

Cut the green beans

Nicely wash the green beans. Grab a few at a time and trim off both ends. Now you can leave it as it is or cut the beans further into halves or thirds if you like it smaller in length.
1 Pound Fresh green beans (500 gram)

Blanch green beans

In a pot on medium-high heat, add enough water (1.5 to 2 liters) and bring it to a boil. Add the green beans and cook until tender for 6 minutes.
Transfer it to a colander to drain any excess water. Keep this aside.

Make Garlic Butter

Melt butter in a pan. Add garlic cloves to it and saute until light golden in color. Add spring onions to it and mix. Switch off the flame.
2 tablespoon Butter, 6 to 8 Garlic cloves, finely chopped, 1 tablespoon Spring onions or Green onions

Toss

In a bowl, add blanched green beans, a pinch of salt, lemon juice, and garlic butter, and toss until combined.
Juice of 1 lemon, ¼ teaspoon Salt
Serve and enjoy.

Video

Notes

I blanch green beans for 6 minutes and drain. This keeps it crisp and tender. If you are looking for softer green beans, then cook them a little longer, say 8 minutes.

You can see in the picture that the butter became semi-solid as soon as I mixed it with green beans. The room temperature was also freezing. In this case, you can microwave for 10 seconds.

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