Sweet and Savory Thanksgiving Green Beans

You’re not going to make those same-old, same-old gloppy green beans for Thanksgiving again, are you?

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.

Step away from the creamed soup, foodie 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.

How to make Sweet and Savory Thanksgiving Green Beans

As always, first gather your ingredients. For this recipe, you’ll need…

• Fresh green beans
• Extra virgin olive oil
• Fresh garlic
• Dried herbs
• Soy sauce (I always use lower-sodium soy sauce and there is still plenty of salt)
• Agave or honey (I’m using Melissa’s Produce Agave, but honey is perfectly fine here too)
• Water
• OPTIONAL: Garnish of crispy onions or sliced almonds or something crunchy

Toss the beans into an olive-oiled skillet, on medium/medium-high.

Stir fry, then add garlic and herbs. 

Stir fry another minute or 2.

Add soy sauce, agave and water and stir-fry until beans and crisp-tender.

Place cooked beans in a bowl and serve!

Toss some crispy onions on top as a garnish if you like. If not, they’re perfectly fine as-is!

Yowza, these are good!

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It’s Holiday Side Dish Week on the blog! 

Welcome to Holiday Side Dish Week! My food blogger friends and I are offering a variety of new side dishes to grace your table. Hope you try one or more of them and add something new to the celebration feasts for your family and friends. We’re posting Monday, Wednesday and Friday this week to get your cooking engines started. Thanks to Heather from Hezzi-D’s Recipe Box for hosting us.

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Helpful kitchen tools and products for this recipe:

13-inch handmade thin dark wood saute spatula by Earlywood. {affiliate link}
I use my set of these every day, whenever I pull out my skillet. Made in the U.S.A. Super high quality, very comfortable.

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