For more crave-able veggie side dishes, try out my Brown Sugar Green Beans with Bacon, Sauteed Brussels Sprouts, and perfect Roasted Butternut Squash.
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Did you make these super easy and delicious garlic green beans?? Fantastic! Please rate the recipe below! Fresh Green Beans: I am quite certain that anyone who believes that they dislike green beans must have grown up with a mother or father (or grandmother or great aunt Gertrude) who used frozen – or even worse, canned – green beans. PLEASE. Just don’t. Fresh green beans hold their texture better and are able to stand up to the heat, while having better flavor and none of that soggy limp mess that you remember from your childhood. Sesame Oil: You can use extra virgin olive oil here but I swear that toasted sesame oil takes the flavor of these green beans to the next level and makes them anything but boring! Toasted Almonds: Almonds tend to get a richer, nuttier flavor when toasted (and that’s what they’re essentially doing there, being tossed around in the skillet with the green beans). That little bit of crunch goes so well with these tender, flavorful green beans. Plus they soak up some of that sesame oil we were just talking about, intensifying the flavor of the whole dish! This question is one that’s hard to answer simply, since taste is so objective, and also depends on what spices you like. If you’re not sure, I recommend trying some spice mixes. Some of my favorites include Italian, lemon pepper, Herbes de Provence, garam masala, Chinese 5 spice, and Mexican adobo. If you’re experimenting with spices, follow the instructions below, using olive oil instead of sesame. Then, when it says to add the spices, add the ones you’ve chosen to experiment with. Follow step 2 as well, making sure the green beans are finished by piercing with a fork. Starting simply is the easiest way to figure out what you like, from there you can get fancier by adding in other ingredients — like garlic, nuts, sugars, etc. We all have to learn to crawl before we learn to walk, right?
