PERFECT GREEN BEANS WITH SHALLOTS

 

Ingredients:

Half a produce bag of green beans

2 shallots

2 T Butter or vegan butter

2 T Olive or canola oil

Salt & Pepper

Instructions:

Wash and trim the end of your beans. You can leave them whole, or break them into smaller pieces. Fill your pasta pot with salted water and bring to a boil.

Peel and dice your shallots fairly small. Melt the butter in a pan and add the oil. Sauté the shallots until translucent. Turn off the heat until your beans are done.

When the salted water comes to a boil, add the beans.

Only cook the beans for about 2 minutes. They will turn bright green.

Then pull them out, drained (which is why the pasta pot comes in handy). and immediately take them over to the sink and pour very cold water over them. If you want to be very professional, fill the sink with ice water and dunk your beans in it. This will stop them from over cooking.

 

See how bright green they are? Drain them again and dump them into the pan of shallots, add salt and pepper to taste, and toss to coat. You can turn the heat back on and warm them up. Or they will hold well at this point and you can heat them up later. They are also just really good a room temp also.