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Buttery Green Beans

Modified: Sep 1, 2025 by Judith Coates · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

A simple, easy side dish that will accompany a wide range of meals and delicious with onions!
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Cooked green beans with golden brown onions mixed together.

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The humble green bean is often not treated with the respect it deserves. Yet using it to produce a simple side dish that will accompany a very wide range of meals is so easy. A really quick and simple side dish! Similarly, these vegetable dishes make simple sides to serve as well, Asparagus With Hollandaise Sauce, Best Beet Recipe, and Balsamic Peppers Recipe!

Cooked green beans with golden brown onions mixed together.

Green beans fresh out of the garden are almost a different vegetable than picked and stored to be eaten later, so if you can, eat them freshly picked.

Cooking green beans takes no time at all and if done well are one of the most delicious vegetables available.

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Cooked green beans with golden brown onions mixed together.

Buttery Green Beans

Judith Coates
A simple, easy side dish that will accompany a wide range of meals and delicious with onions!
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Prep Time 5 minutes mins
Cook Time 10 minutes mins
Course Side Dish
Cuisine French
Servings 4

Ingredients

  • 500 gram/1 lb green beans
  • 30 gram/1 oz butter
  • 1 medium size onion
  • salt and pepper
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Instructions
 

  • Trim the beans and cook in boiling well-salted water or steam them for about 10 minutes.
  • Meanwhile, finely chop the onion.
  • Melt the butter and fry the onion until lightly brown.
  • Drain the beans and toss them over heat to dry.
  • Pour the butter and onions over the beans.
  • Season with salt and pepper and serve immediately
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