Snack
Blistered green beans with garlic and chile
Beans cooked hard and dry in a hot pan go sweet and slightly collapsed, which is the opposite of the squeaky boiled ones — and they are as good cold from the fridge an hour later.
4gnet carbs
11gfat
3gprotein
125kcal
Per serving15 minServes 4
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Ingredients
For the whole dish · serves 4
- Green beans13 oz
- Olive oil1½ fl oz
- Garlic clovesthree, sliced thin
- Red pepper flakesa good pinch
- Lemonhalf, juiced
- Flaky sea saltto finish
Method
6 steps · 15 minutes
- Wash the beans early and dry them completely. A wet bean steams and never blisters.
- Get a heavy pan properly hot with the oil, then put the beans in and leave them.
- Turn them once after 3 minutes, once more after 2, and stop when they are brown in patches and starting to wrinkle.
- Garlic and pepper flakes go in for the last 30 seconds only — sliced garlic burns bitter in a pan this hot faster than you can lift it out.
- Off the heat, the lemon juice into the pan so it hisses and lifts everything off the base.
- Flaky salt at the last moment. Salted early they weep, and that water is what stops the blistering.
Macros are per serving and are estimates worked out from the ingredients. Keto Tracker AI is a food logging tool and does not give medical advice; talk to a doctor before changing your diet.
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