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Sweet and Savory Thanksgiving Green Beans is a new side dish, amped up with garlic and herbs, seasoned with soy and sweetened with agave. Get rid of the gloppy green beans!
You’re not going to make those same-old, same-old gloppy green beans for Thanksgiving again, are you?
Step away from the creamed soup, food friends. You know, the cream of mushroom, the cream of celery, the cream of chicken…whatever is your family’s heritage cream-of.
There is a way better version of your green bean side dish, and you’ll thank me for it s soon as the holiday craziness is over.
What if I convince you to try something new, something less goopy, something every bit as comforting and tasty and certainly even better for you? This is it – Sweet and Savory Green Beans, amped up with garlic and herbs, seasoned with soy and sweetened with agave.
Yowza, these are good!
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Recipe: Sweet and Savory Thanksgiving Green Beans
Summary: A new green bean side dish for Thanksgiving, amped up with garlic and herbs, seasoned with soy and sweetened with agave.
Ingredients
- 8 ounces trimmed fresh green beans
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic, finely minced or pressed
- 1 teaspoon herbs (I used ¼ teaspoon EACH of dried oregano, thyme, marjoram and basil)
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoons agave or honey
- 1 tablespoon water
- Garnish: crispy onions or sliced Marcona almonds (optional)
Instructions
- Add beans and stir-fry for about 3 minutes.
- Add garlic and herbs and stir-fry for another minute or 2.
- Add soy sauce, agave and water and stir-fry until beans are crisp-tender, another minute or 2. Add another tablespoon of water if the soy-agave coating gets too dry or begins to scorch.
- Place on a serving platter and sprinkle with crispy onions or sliced almonds if you like (or not if you want to revel in simplicity).
- Serves 4.
Source
Adapted from Teriyaki Green Beans
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Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Diet type: Vegan, vegetarian
Diet tags: Reduced fat, Gluten free
Number of servings (yield): 4
My rating
I found inspiration for this recipe on the blog Troyers Loving Life by blogger Kirsten, who describes her site as a “come sit and be a friend” blog. That’s a great description, isn’t it?
I was spelunking into this site because it was assigned to me for Secret Recipe Club, and I spent a long time perusing her delicious suggestions. I nearly made her Banana Nut Cornbread because I am in love with the Jiffy mix, and her Candied Spiced Chickpeas just cried out to me at 5 p.m. (with some wine?). Summer garden abundance might be a good purpose for her Oven Baked Zucchini Fries, and her Blueberry Chia Seed Jam is right up my chia seed alley.
But Thanksgiving looms, and the green beans won the day! Join us in the Secret Recipe Club this month for some delicious eats, from Kirsten’s blog and many others!
You can see what other cooks in the Secret Recipe Club made this month, right below here in the array of photos. Click any of them to be transported to that particular recipe!
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These sound so good! I had a boyfriend in high school and his mom used to make the gloopy green bean casserole each Thanksgiving – blerg! Lovely SRC pick 🙂
JJ,
Love that word — blerg!
These green beans sound delicious! I’m a huge fan of sweet and savory. 🙂
Love your take on a classic! I am actually making green beans, but was going to do my simple take with almonds. I think now I’ll incorporate your agave into it and maybe do a mix and match with my recipe.
great post!
Thanks, Sally!
Play around with the green beans, definitely!
Glad you liked them. I have made them for a few holidays. this year I’m making a totally “from scratch” version of green bean casserole with fresh not canned anything…lol
What a wonderful alternative to the typical green bean casserole! Great (and timely) pick this month!!! 🙂
I love green beans when they’re done well. Yum!
Wonderful side dish for Thanksgiving!
I love fresh green beans!! What a perfect choice for this time of year! 🙂
Wow! What a wonderful recipe! Just so happens I have green beans from the farmers market frozen in my freezer and can’t wait to make these:) In my family, we aren’t fans of the green bean casserole so this is perfect! Great src pick~ Lynn @ Turnips 2 Tangerines~ Happy Thanksgiving~
Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
I joined the Group D fun this week – normally I’m with Group A – but it’s nice to meet some new-to-me bloggers. I have to figure out how to add this to our Thanksgiving table this week! Look amazing. Eat Laugh Love (Group C) is an orphan no more!
What a great recipe. I’m going to try these for sure. I’m getting tired of the same old green bean at Thanksgiving. Great SRC pick!
Thanks, Traci!
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