Green beans with toasted almonds

This recipe is quick, healthy and delicious! Green beans with toasted almonds are a great side dish for chicken, turkey and ribs, but also go well with salmon.

If you don’t like green beans, I can promise you, once you’ve tasted this version, you won’t want to eat them any other way again.

Put it on the table:

As expected, there are few ingredients and the dish is literally prepared in just 15 minutes.

Ingredients

250g fresh green beans

½ cup flaked almonds

1 lemon

2 tablespoons butter

salt & pepper

Top and tail the green beans and rinse them in cold water. Halve the green beans if they are very long.

Trimmed fresh green beans

Bring the water to a boil in a pot on the stove to which a pinch of salt has been added. When the water starts to boil, add the green beans. Let it boil for about 5-7 minutes (it shouldn’t be mushy, but still nice and firm). Remove from the pot and strain them through a colander.

Cook the green beans

You can of course buy toasted almonds in the store – raw almonds can be a little bland. But if you only have raw almonds (like we did), put them in a pan and toast them dry by moving the pan from side to side until the almonds are golden brown. Put them aside.

Toasting the almonds

Melt the butter in the pan and add the cooked green beans. Add salt and pepper and stir-fry it for a minute.

Cooked green beans back in the pan

Scatter the toasted almonds over the green beans and add the juice of the lemon. (You can also add some of the pulp of the lemon for extra flavour).

Add toasted almonds and lemon juice

When the green beans are hot, they are ready to be served. You can even be daring and drizzle some balsamic glaze over.

Green beans with toasted almonds

The crunch of the almonds works surprisingly good with the green beans … with the roasted chicken it was a real winner.

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