Czech String Bean and Dill Cream Gravy
Recipe: #14423
September 29, 2014
Categories: Side Dishes, Beans, Potatoes, Eastern European, Sunday Dinner, No Eggs, Vegetarian, Green Beans, Sour Cream, Vegetarian Dinner, more
"From Libbie Wostrel; Czech cooking."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (114.5 g)
- Calories 108.2
- Total Fat - 3.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 2.1 g
- Cholesterol - 9.2 mg
- Sodium - 40.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 15.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.3 g
- Sugars - 2.1 g
- Protein - 3.6 g
- Calcium - 52.2 mg
- Iron - 0.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 9.2 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Drain liquid from green beans into a measuring cup, reserving 1 cup liquid. Pour rest into a pan; bring to a boil.
Step 2
Into reserved one cup of liquid, making sure it is cool, measure 2 tablespoons flour per cup of liquid.
Step 3
Add 2 more tablespoons for 1 cup sour cream. You may use sweet cream mixed with 1-1/2 tablespoons vinegar.
Step 4
Shake or mix flour mixture well until there are no lumps; add to rest of boiling liquid, stirring constantly, until thickened. Add chopped dill.
Step 5
Remove from heat and stir in the sour cream to which the flour has been added.
Step 6
Do not boil after adding sour cream.
Step 7
Add green beans and cooked new potatoes.
Tips
No special items needed.