Green Beans & Tomatoes

5m
Prep Time
20m
Cook Time
25m
Ready In


"This green bean and tomato dish is flavorful and balanced. It is quick and easy to put together, and it is a guest worthy side to just about any main meat dish."

Original is 5 servings

Nutritional

  • Serving Size: 1 (235.1 g)
  • Calories 108.3
  • Total Fat - 6.1 g
  • Saturated Fat - 1 g
  • Cholesterol - 0.8 mg
  • Sodium - 22.6 mg
  • Total Carbohydrate - 12.5 g
  • Dietary Fiber - 4.1 g
  • Sugars - 6.6 g
  • Protein - 3.3 g
  • Calcium - 65.1 mg
  • Iron - 1.4 mg
  • Vitamin C - 28 mg
  • Thiamin - 0.1 mg

Step by Step Method

Step 1

Plunge tomatoes in a pot of boiling water and boil until skin loosens, about 1 minutes.

Step 2

Allow cooling, removed skin and chop into bite sized pieces and set aside.

Step 3

Drizzle oil into a large skillet and heat to medium-high.

Step 4

Cook onion and garlic until onion is translucent.

Step 5

Reduce heat to medium.

Step 6

Add green beans, tomatoes, balsamic vinegar, water, basil salt and pepper and simmer uncovered until beans are cooked to desired tenderness.

Step 7

Add 1 tablespoon parmesan cheese and stir well.

Step 8

Serve and sprinkle with more parmesan cheese if desired.

Tips


No special items needed.

6 Reviews

Joni

I used veggies from my garden and they turned out delicious! There wasn't a bean left when dinner was done. Yummy!!

5.0

review by:
(16 Jul 2014)

Dissie

This is a wonderful recipe! Wish I had thought about adding tomatoes to green beans! Bea, just an awesome idea and an awesome outcome! I boiled my beans a few minutes before adding them to the tomatoes. (Cut down on cook time). These were phenomenal. Going to be making these all summer. Thanks for the great recipe! I wanted to add that I didn't skin the tomatoes either, just added as is, after dicing.

5.0

review by:
(7 Aug 2013)

Bergy

I love the balsamic with the veggies. Next time I will steam the beans for 3 minutes then add them to the pan for finishing the cooking. I found they were just a bit tough. My fault not recipe fault. Definitely a do again recipe 14 Aug 2015 Made the recipe again and this time I did steam the beans for 3 minutes then added them to the pan - wonderful! I forgot the Parmesan. Next time Bea I'll get it all right.

5.0

review by:
(5 Aug 2013)

Engrossed

Very tasty healthy recipe for green beans! I used thin French green beans and halved grape tomatoes which I threw in near the end. This was a new cooking method for green beans for me, and I liked it very much, but I would probably cover it next time to speed up the cooking process. I forgot the parmesan, and it was great even without it. Made for the Alphabet Soup recipe tag game.

5.0

review by:
(26 Apr 2012)

Derf

loved the combination of green beans and tomatos , so refreshing with the balsamic and herbs, i'll be making these often, thanks for posting. Aug 7/13 these are tasty and excellant side dish.

5.0

review by:
(26 Mar 2012)

Kchurchill5

Delicious recipe! I only had one slight change. I didn't peel the tomatoes, I just chopped them. I don't mind the skins. But, that didn't change the recipe. Great flavor ... and I'm sorry my pic doesn't do it justice. I also would of used a greated parm - but I used what was on hand. Still same flavor. Very nice.

5.0

review by:
(3 Feb 2012)

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