Green Beans with Cherry Tomatoes combines two summer favorites in an eye-catching, colorful side dish. Easy and quick to prepare with just a few ingredients, is delicious and goes very well with grilled entrees, such as Grilled Flat Iron Steak, Grilled Stuffed Pork Chops and Grilled Soy Marinated Tuna. Bright, fresh green beans cooked until al dente and colorful, just-bursting cherry tomatoes make this tasty dish a family favorite. Add cubed, firm tofu to Green Beans with Cherry Tomatoes and you’ve created a great vegetarian entrée too.
Green Beans with Cherry Tomatoes
Green Beans Indonesian Style
Green Beans Indonesian Style or Sambal Goreng Boontjes is absolutely delicious and even better the next day. Fresh green beans enhanced by aromatic and mildly spicy Indonesian seasonings, then simmered in coconut milk is a great new way to prepare this versatile vegetable. Serve as a side dish with Balinese Pork Kerrie Ketjap, accompanied by freshly steamed white rice for an Indonesian-themed dinner or enjoy Green Beans Indonesian Style over rice as a light meal.
Prep Time: 15 minutes, Total Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes. Serves: 4.
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Beef and Green Beans Stir-Fry
The inspiration for our Beef and Green Beans Stir-Fry came from a Chinese cooking class Jan’s mom took in the Netherlands when he was in grade school. It was a special dish his parents would prepare together for themselves on the weekends, as this was considered “not food for kids”; the kids had more everyday fare during those meals. Well, Jan did get to taste it a few times and I loved it; he still does so today. Jan recalls that the original recipe called for 1 tablespoon of sherry, 2 tablespoons of soy sauce and a ½ clove of garlic as the marinade; the garlic was revolutionary for Dutch cooking in the 60s!
Easy to prepare, Beef and Green Beans Stir-Fry is a great weeknight dinner; you can prepare the marinade and marinate the beef in the morning too. Start out with a quick and easy to prepare Sicilian Orange Salad for a juicy, sweet and savory beginning to your meal. Enjoy this great dish with white rice or rice noodles or, for a Keto experience, use shirataki noodles or just as is.
Prep Time: 30 minutes, Total Time: 1 hour, 15 minutes plus marinating time. Serves: 4.
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Green Beans and Shiitake Mushrooms Stir Fry
The bright flavor of fresh Green Beans and the earthiness of fresh Shiitake Mushrooms combine beautifully in this simple stir fry with a remarkably deep flavor profile. Green Beans and Shiitake Mushrooms Stir Fry pairs remarkably well with pan-fried steak or our Fast and Fabulous Pork Chops and serves up as a great vegetarian main course too.
Prep Time: 20 minutes, Total Time: 40 minutes Serves: 4 as a side dish or 2 as a main course.
Green Beans Marinara
Green Beans Marinara is a typical Italian contorno or side dish. Oddly enough, while popular in Italian and Italian-American homes, it’s not often seen on restaurant menus in the United States. Contrary to its name, Green Beans Marinara is not just green beans thrown into a large pot of marinara sauce. The marinara sauce is minimal in volume as compared to the green beans; the sauce’s flavor permeates but must not overwhelm the wonderful juiciness of fresh green beans.
Easy to prepare and really delicious, Green Beans Marinara’s flavors are best when prepared with freshly picked green beans and tomatoes, as Vito’s grandmother would do with produce from her own garden. That said, using fresh green beans and ripe tomatoes from the farmers’ market or supermarket will also yield very good results provided you select the very freshest produce possible and prepare the recipe within a day or so of making your purchase.
Green Beans Marinara is a colorful side dish for steaks, chops and chicken, try some with London broil made with Dad’s Special Marinade for Beef; it is also quite good on its own accompanied by some fresh bread to soak up the sauce. Any leftover Green Beans Marinara can be refrigerated for future use within two days.
Prep Time: 30 minutes, Total Time: 1 hour Serves: 2
Beef Stew with a French Accent
Beef Stew with a French Accent is savory and hearty. Jolie Laide (“Pretty Ugly” in French or “beautiful despite its looks”) in appearance, its complex flavors belie its humble, everyday ingredients and its ease of preparation. The onion and garlic provide a flavor base for the beef and the thyme and bay leaves add subtle herbal seasoning notes, complementing the black pepper. Dry red wine and water are the braising medium while the green beans and potatoes complete the triumvirate of the body elements of the stew along with the beef. Finally, the Dijon mustard stirred into the red wine and coating flour, pulls the stew together and deepens the flavorful finish of the stew. Add a starter of Wilted Arugula Salad and pair it all with a Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon wine. All in all, Beef Stew with a French Accent is a wonderful dish for cold winter evenings.
Prep Time: 50 minutes, Total Time: 3 hours, Serves 4 to 6
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