Green Beans With Almonds & Hint Of Orange
Recipe: #10517
September 12, 2013
Categories: Side Dishes, Beans, Almond, Beans (String), Brunch, Christmas, Easter, Fathers Day Mothers Day, Sunday Dinner, Thanksgiving, Gluten-Free, No Eggs, Vegetarian, Kosher Dairy, Vegetarian Dinner, more
"There's never a holiday or a fancy dinner that goes by that I don't make these beans and I always double or triple the recipe"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (130.1 g)
- Calories 97.7
- Total Fat - 6.3 g
- Saturated Fat - 3.8 g
- Cholesterol - 21 mg
- Sodium - 147.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 8.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 3.2 g
- Sugars - 3.7 g
- Protein - 3.8 g
- Calcium - 45.7 mg
- Iron - 1.3 mg
- Vitamin C - 15.2 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Place a steamer basket in a large saucepan, add 1 inch of water and bring to a boil. Put green beans in the basket and steam until tender, about 6 minutes.
Step 2
Toss the green beans in a large bowl with butter orange zest, salt, pepper and almonds.
Step 3
To toast sliced almonds, place in a small dry skillet and cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until fragrant and lightly browned, 2 to 4 minutes.
Tips
No special items needed.