Sauteed green beans with butter and garlic is probably the most simple, easy-to-cook, and a flavorful side dish to your roast meat. Actually, it goes well with almost any meal and is ready in under 15 minutes. If you have some extra minced garlic, add it to the buttery sauteed beans at the very end. As you slow cook the beans in butter and garlic, the latter will melt to perfection and turn creamy when blended with the steaming beans, making it one of the best comfort foods you’ll ever eat. So what are we waiting for? Let’s get on with the recipe, shall we?
Whether it’s a side dish to a fancy holiday meal or just a simple dinner recipe for a busy weeknight, sauteed beans always come to the rescue. Usually, people use string beans for this recipe, which are pan-fried until they turn a little brown. They are then tossed around in garlic to give it a delicious buttery and garlicky flavor. This is a 4-ingredient recipe, which will not take over 15 minutes to cook and serve.
Ingredients1 tbsp butter/ olive oil
3 garlic cloves finely minced
1 lb green beans with the ends cut and preferably stringless
1/2 tsp salt (you can alter it as per your taste)
Method* To make sauteed green beans, first, take a large pan and put it over high heat. When it has reasonably heated up, add olive oil and green beans.
* Note that if you are using butter, ensure that the heat is somewhere between medium to low as butter can burn very easily.
* Now, cook the green beans, while occasionally tossing them until they start to soften and blister in patches.
* Once you see them turning black in a few spots turn off the heat. This should ideally not take more than 5 minutes.
* Once done, add minced garlic to the pan and cook it along with the beans.
* The fine raw garlic pieces will mesh well with the beans and butter/oil. Keeping tossing the beans and mixing the ingredients well for about a minute or more till you get a strong garlicky aroma.
* Once done, remove the pan from the heat and toss salt all over it and mix well so that it is evenly distributed.
* You can also add a dash of pepper if you like. Now serve it hot with soup or any main course meal such as roast chicken or beef. Enjoy.