Apricot Glazed Green Beans with Toasted Almonds

These apricot glazed inexperienced beans are made with only a handful of substances, creating a fast and attractive inexperienced bean facet dish.

Inexperienced beans almondine is a basic French dish that tastes superb, however I wished to make a vegan and extra lazy/weeknight model with much less chopping. me, some days I simply can’t be bothered to take care of onion and garlic. It is available in waves.

My answer to including complementary taste to inexperienced beans, with some complexity however much less trouble, was to toast some sliced almonds proper within the skillet alongside the greens, after which dollop in some apricot preserves (maybe leftover from making a glazed tofu roast?). The flavour trifecta created by this methodology is surprisingly good, and the apricot preserves cling the almonds to the inexperienced beans so it’s straightforward to eat all of it collectively.

Be sure you use an apricot unfold that’s truly manufactured from apricot. Whereas it’s attainable to seek out apricot jam on the retailer that’s naturally-sweetened with fruit, the opposite fruit used (normally apple or grape) will dilute the apricot taste, which received’t be nearly as good on this explicit dish. I used Santa Cruz model in on this recipe (hyperlink is to indicate you the product; the value on Amazon as of writing is far larger than in grocery shops). The one fruit in it’s apricot.

You may need seen that my inexperienced beans are sliced up into items. If I’m making an attempt to make some sort of visually fancy dinner unfold, I’ll depart them complete, however in any other case I like my inexperienced beans lower into roughly 1 1/2″ items. They prepare dinner extra evenly that manner and will be eaten and not using a knife. Your writer is just not a fan of the sound of knives scraping on plates. I do the identical factor with asparagus, which apparently is actually against the law. *shrugs*

Once I’m trimming the ends off of inexperienced beans I like to make use of the sting of my knife to line up a bunch of them without delay, and trim all of them with a single lower. Then I rotate them and do the identical factor on the opposite facet, like within the picture under. For me personally it’s the quickest methodology to prep them.

To make sure that your pan-roasted glazed inexperienced beans are a hit, get the almonds and the apricot preserves measured out prematurely. This recipe strikes tremendous rapidly, which is a blessing however can be a curse!

I hope you take pleasure in these apricot glazed inexperienced beans with almonds! It’s an excellent recipe to have in your again pocket for a fast facet dish with dinner, or simply to munch on.

Apricot Glazed Inexperienced Beans

Scrumptious apricot-glazed inexperienced beans with toasted almonds come collectively in only a few minutes with just one pan.

Course Facet Dish, greens

Delicacies American, vegan, vegetarian

Key phrase apricot-glazed inexperienced beans

Elements

12 oz inexperienced beans trimmed and lower into 1.5-inch items
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 oz sliced almonds (1/4 cup)
2 oz apricot jam or preserves (1/4 cup)
salt and pepper to style

Directions

Warmth the vegetable oil in a sauté pan or skillet over medium warmth (medium-high if utilizing an electrical range). As soon as scorching, add the inexperienced beans and a sprinkle of salt, and stir. Cook dinner for two minutes.
Stir within the almonds, and proceed to prepare dinner, stirring steadily, till almonds are toasted and inexperienced beans are crisp-tender, 3-4 extra minutes.
Flip off the warmth. Add the apricot jam to the pan, stirring properly to coat because the jam softens.
Season to style with salt and pepper, and serve. This dish is finest eaten straight away. Nonetheless, leftovers will maintain for a few days. When you particularly plan to have leftovers, I like to recommend undercooking the inexperienced beans barely.