Green Beans with Lemon, Parmesan, and Pine Nuts

Inexperienced Beans with Lemon, Parmesan, and Pine Nuts are shortly stir-fried to to show recent inexperienced beans right into a particular facet dish. And the addition of lemon, Parmesan, and pine nuts turns inexperienced beans right into a gourmand deal with!

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If you’re writing a house cooking weblog, you’re not solely sharing your recipes with the world, you’re additionally documenting what you’re consuming. And once I first posted this recipe for Inexperienced Beans with Lemon, Parmesan, and Pine Nuts, inexperienced beans weren’t one thing I cooked that usually.

Then I found these pretty skinny French inexperienced beans at Costco, which not solely impressed me to make this recipe but additionally received me began rising my very own inexperienced beans within the backyard. And now years later I’ve greater than 20 Inexperienced Beans Recipes on the weblog.

However even with all these choices, these recipe for inexperienced beans with lemon is among the inexperienced beans recipes I exploit most, and I took some new pictures and to suggest it for my Friday Favorites choose this week to entice you to strive it. In fact, lemon, parmesan, and PINE NUTS! How can that probably not be good?

Should you’re a gardener and have inexperienced beans planted, earlier than lengthy you’ll have extra inexperienced beans than you ever imagined, so let me suggest this option to cook dinner them. And you’ll want to take care of the recipe for extra scrumptious concepts for inexperienced beans from Kalyn’s Kitchen and a few of my running a blog associates.

What components do you want for this recipe?

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• recent inexperienced beans, ideally skinny French inexperienced beans
• Olive Oil (affiliate hyperlink)
• entire garlic cloves
• lemon juice (I exploit my fresh-frozen lemon juice)
• lemon zest
• freshly grated Parmesan cheese
• Pine Nuts (affiliate hyperlink)

What if you happen to don’t have pine nuts?

Pine nuts might be dear if you happen to don’t purchase them at Costco, and currently Costco appears to be having a scarcity at instances. I believe slivered almonds can be a terrific substitute on this recipe.

Can you employ thicker inexperienced beans for this inexperienced beans with lemon recipe?

You may make this recipe with thicker beans or backyard beans which frequently are typically the thicker sort, however you might need to barely improve the stir-frying time.

Are Inexperienced Beans with Lemon, Parmesan, and Pine Nuts low in carbs?

Not solely is that this a tremendous option to cook dinner inexperienced beans, however these wonderful beans have solely 7 internet carbs per serving.

Easy methods to make Inexperienced Beans with Lemon, Parmesan, and Pine Nuts:

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1. Trim beans into items about 2 inches lengthy (and wash if you happen to’re utilizing backyard beans.)
2. Putgreen beans in a bowl, cowl with cling wrap (or a loosely-fitting lid), and microwave for two minutes.
3. Whereas beans cook dinner within the microwave, zest the lemon and squeeze the juice. Get the garlic and Parmesan prepared and toast the pine nuts in a dry pan simply till they’re barely beginning to brown.
4. Warmth the oil in a big wok or frying pan, then add garlic and cook dinner about 1 minute, or till aromatic; then discard the garlic. Don’t let the garlic brown. (That is known as “seasoning the oil.”) 
5. Add inexperienced beans and stir-fry over excessive warmth till they’re simply beginning to brown, however are nonetheless barely crisp. Style one to see if it’s as executed as you’d prefer it; thicker backyard beans will take barely longer.
6. Decrease warmth, add the lemon juice and stir to get that taste combined in with the beans; then flip off warmth and sprinkle the lemon zest and Parmesan over the beans. 
7. Serve scorching, sprinkled with toasted pine nuts.

Make it a Meal:

These Inexperienced Beans with Lemon, Parmesan, and Pine Nuts can be nice with one thing like Baked Swedish Meatballs,Beef and Sausage Meatballs with Tomato Sauce, or Janet’s Simple Mustard Rooster for a low-carb meal.

Extra Concepts for Inexperienced Beans:

Low-Carb Food regimen / Low-Glycemic Food regimen / South Seaside Food regimen Solutions:
Inexperienced Beans with Lemon, Parmesan, and Pine Nuts can be an ideal facet dish for any section of the unique South Seaside Food regimen and so they’re low sufficient in internet carbs for many any low-carb food plan plan.

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Historic Notes for this Recipe:
This wonderful recipe for inexperienced beans was first posted in 2007 and it’s been successful on the web site ever since! The recipe was up to date with higher pictures in 2021 and it was final up to date with extra data in 2024.

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