Italian Sautéed Green Beans
Add Italian Sautéed Green Beans with Tomatoes to your menu for a pop of vibrant color on your plate plus an outstanding treat for your taste buds!
This Fresh Green Bean Recipe is easy enough for every day, yet elegant enough for company!
Why You Must Make
As I often do, I came to search my blog for this fresh green bean recipe. I spotted these yummy roasted green beans, but apparently, I was remiss in sharing this recipe with you all. Finding decent green beans in the produce section, in the middle of winter, reminded me of these tasty beans!
- Once I tracked down the recipe, it took only about 10 minutes until they were ready to serve.
- The recipe is super easy, yet definitely packed full of flavor.
- It’s perfect for a weeknight dinner, yet the flavor and colorful presentation make it a fun option when having company over.
How to Blanch Fresh Beans
Though these beans could easily be cooked until tender, strained, and parked until the garlic butter was ready, I decided to blanch them. What is blanching, you might wonder? Blanching is the process of plunging fruit or vegetables into boiling water briefly, then into cold water to stop the cooking process. I often do this for sugar snap peas and asparagus, when serving them as crudite, to slightly soften and minimize the “raw” flavor. When making peach pie, this process also is helpful in removing the skins.
According to the Food Lover’s Companion, blanching can set the color as well as heighten the flavor. Since I wanted them cooked past crisp, this may have been more of a parboil than blanching. Let’s call it a long blanch.
How to Make Sauteed Green Beans
- First, the veggies are parboiled or blanched, then there are just a couple more steps.
- The butter is melted and seasonings are added to the mix.
- Next, the cherry (or grape) tomatoes are tossed in and cooked until soft.
- Finally, the beans are added and cooked to your desired doneness.
Recipe Notes:
- Though I didn’t do it this time, slicing the tomatoes in half makes them easier to eat.
- Parcooking or blanching the beans until tender will make the final cooking time much shorter.
- Fresh basil can be replaced with any other herb that goes well with beans and tomatoes, like fresh thyme.
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By the way, I found this recipe shared in 2012 but had titled it Haricots Vert with Grape Tomatoes! And here I was searching for green beans. Photos, name of recipe, and text have been updated so this doesn’t go missing again.
Italian Sautéed Green Beans
A vibrant green bean recipe flavored with butter, garlic and basil and sweet cherry tomatoes.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ to 2 pounds fresh green beans
- ¼ cup butter
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- ¾ teaspoon garlic powder
- ⅛ teaspoon of salt
- ¼ teaspoon of pepper
- ½ teaspoon basil
- 1 cup whole or halved cherry or grape tomatoes
Instructions
- Cook green beans in salted water until tender. Drain and set aside.
- In a large saute pan, melt the butter, then stir in the sugar, garlic powder, salt, pepper and basil.
- Add the tomatoes and cook until soft.
- Add the green beans and toss gently. Serve while hot.
Notes
May use frozen green beans if fresh are not available.
Adapted from Southern Living.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 140Total Fat: 8gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 20mgSodium: 113mgCarbohydrates: 17gFiber: 5gSugar: 10gProtein: 3g
11 Comments on “Italian Sautéed Green Beans”
I love this side dish; it is so delicious and easy to make. Thank you for this recipe; I will definitely make it more often. Everyone loved it!
I’m so glad, Marina!! Thanks for reporting back!
Such an amazing side dish!! So easy to make and so good!
Nothing boring about these beans! They are full of flavor. The tomatoes pair perfectly with the beans and the seasoning is spot on!
The fresh green beans in the stores here should have stayed on the vine lots longer they’re really puny. I will definitely have to use frozen beans for now.
Sounds good. Looks delicious. And, easy. My kind of recipe. Thanks, again, for tips and how-tos.
Beautiful! Simple yet elegant and delicious, as you mentioned. I love to cook green beans in a tomato sauce with some garlic and herbs, and I love this butter-flavoured version, too! Perfect for the late winter / early spring.
I’m not sure if I actually know the difference between a parboil and a blanch. Anyway, long blanch is a good term. 🙂 And we often blanch veggies — sets the color, and I agree it locks in some flavor (although a stir-fry locks in flavor too). Anyway, good dish — love green beans, and pretty soon we’ll be flooded with local ones.
These beans would be a fantastic Christmas side dish! I love fresh beans
I love green beans! I know they are typically served as a side dish, but I could make a meal of just these they look so good!
Simple, fresh and so delicious! I would have to double or triple the portion though LOL