Easy Buttered Green Beans and Carrot Sticks
photo by Redsie
- Ready In:
- 27mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
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6-8
ingredients
- 2 lbs green beans, ends trimmed
- 10 ounces carrots, peeled (cut into matchstick strips)
- 3 -4 tablespoons butter
- 2 -3 tablespoons olive oil
- salt and black pepper
- chopped nuts (optional)
directions
- Cook the green beans in a pot of boiling salted water until crisp-tender (about 5-6 minutes).
- Transfer beans to a bowl of ice water using a slotted spoon (do not discard the water).
- Boil the carrot sticks in the same water until crisp-tender (about 1 minute) then transfer to the same bowl of ice water with the beans.
- Place the beans and carrots on a paper towel and pat them dry.
- Up to this point you can refrigerate until ready to saute them.
- In a large skillet or a medium pot melt the butter with oil.
- Add in the beans and carrot sticks; toss until hot (about 2 minutes).
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Transfer to a large serving bowl and sprinkle with nuts if desired.
- Delicious!
Reviews
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My family only gave this recipe 4 stars, but I had to give it a 5, because it was my fault. I LOVE nuts in my food, and toasted a few almonds to add to the dish as the optional nuts. No one else in my family likes nuts in food. So my DH and 2 sons complained about it. Next time I will make it without the optional nuts, and I'm SURE I'll get a better response. Simple, honest, healthy, delicious food. Thanks again Kitten!
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Simple yet yummy side dish. I used a pound of frozen green beans and a bag of matchstick carrots. I cooked the veggies in the microwave and then sauted them. I only used 3 tablespoons of butter and no olive oil, then seasoned them. I didn't add the optional nuts as my family isn't fond of nuts in their veggies. Quick and easy!
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This is a nice and easy recipe to put together. I like the fact that I could do the blanching ahead and just quickly saute the veggies for a couple of minutes after the rest of the meal was ready to put on the table. Tasty and simple. I didn't put nuts in because my family doesn't generally care for them (although I do). This time I humored them. One note: I used store-bought "shredded" carrots, which are really matchstick cut, but very, very thin. They did get lost in the green beans. Next time I will cut the carrots myself. It would probably work better to have them cut approximately as thick as the green beans, although they might have to blanch longer than 1 minute in that case.