Creamy, roasted green beans topped with crunchy toasted, walnuts make an easy, nutritious meal served with rice. Simply season with garlic and soy sauce for a quick sheet pan dinner.
Sometimes, it's too hard to think about what to eat for dinner.
You don't have a lot of ingredients and don't want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen.
Sheet pan meal alert!
Nothing warms my heart more than making an oven do all the work for me.
Instead of snacking on a handful of walnuts, try adding them to this green bean recipe made in one pan.
It works as a Thanksgiving side dish or a very simple main dish served with rice.
How do you them taste good?
The short answer is salt and plenty of it.
The better answer is soy sauce.
In addition to salt, soy sauce has fermented soybeans that add umami missiles of joy, without any animal products.
How to cook fresh green beans
I have many not so fond memories of cooking fresh green beans in restaurants.
It is a very popular side dish to serve and sell because it looks much better than broccoli.
Unfortunately, the conventional method of cooking green beans involves blanching them in a large, bubbling pot of water, fishing them out at just the right time before they discolor, and developing little beads of salty sweat from unnecessary stress.
Learn to roast these skinny green suckers in the oven, and be done with dinner in 15 minutes.
How to Roast Green Beans
Time needed: 20 minutes
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Trim green beans
Cut the stem end of the green beans off with scissors or a knife. Put the beans into a pan.
- Mince garlic and add to the pan along with soy sauce and oil.
- Add walnuts, and toss everything together.
- Put pan in the oven and cook to desired doneness.
Cook for 10-15 minutes in the oven. 10 minutes if you like your beans still crunchy. 15 minutes if you like them creamier.
- Roast longer if you like your green beans completely tender but they will lose some of their bright green color.
- Serve hot
This works as an easy side dish or main dish alongside steamed ric.e
Helpful Tips
- To make this a main dish, serve with steamed rice or cauliflower rice.
- For very crunchy beans, roast for 10 minutes. For softer green beans, roast for 20 minutes. for something in between, roast for 15 minutes.
- Instead of green beans, substitute broccoli, carrots, or cauliflower.
- The smoking point of most sesame oils is at least 350 degrees F, so we think it's ok to cook with it in this recipe.
- Use a nonstick pan for parchment paper to avoid too much sticky soy sauce baking onto the pan.
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Recipe
Roasted Garlic Green Beans with Walnuts
Ingredients
- ½ lb green beans stems removed
- ½ c walnuts toasted
- 1 Tb soy sauce or tamari
- 1 Tb sesame oil or other cooking oil
- 1 clove garlic minced
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Toss green beans and walnuts with oil, soy sauce, and garlic.
- Roast in oven for 10-15 minutes until cooked through and slightly browned.
Notes
- To make this a main dish, serve with steamed rice or cauliflower rice.
- For very crunchy beans, roast for 10 minutes. For softer green beans, roast for 20 minutes. for something in between, roast for 15 minutes.
- Instead of green beans, substitute broccoli, carrots, or cauliflower.
- The smoking point of most sesame oils is at least 350 degrees F, so we think it's ok to cook with it in this recipe.
- Use a nonstick pan for parchment paper to avoid too much sticky soy sauce baking onto the pan.
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