The green beans served at Thanksgiving dinner are often a maligned lot – ignored for the most part and eaten by children only after much cajoling. Here are some green bean recipes that will be more than the token vegetable during your holiday feast.
Green Beans with Cremini Mushroom Sauce
Mushrooms offer one of the best ways to transform beans from bland to tasty. Food and Wine’s Green Beans with Cremini Mushroom Sauce, a recipe by Marcia Kiesel, shows exactly how this happens. To prepare two and a half pounds of green beans, Kiesel’s recipe calls for a pound of thinly sliced shallots, 1/3 cup all-purpose flour, two tablespoons unsalted butter, a medium-sized onions (thinly sliced), half a teaspoon of paprika, a pound of cremini mushrooms (thinly sliced, stems discarded), two cups chicken stock, half a cup of crème fraîche, two tablespoons fresh lemon juice, a pinch of cayenne pepper, freshly ground pepper, salt, and oil for frying. [Read more…]