Green Beans with Lemon and Cumin
Recipe: #5719
June 14, 2012
Categories: Side Dishes, Beans, Lemon, Beans (String), Birthday, Fathers Day, Mothers Day, Potluck, Romantic Dinner, Sunday Dinner, Valentine's Day, more
"I found this lovely recipe in a Atkins Diet Cookbook."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (250.1 g)
- Calories 150.2
- Total Fat - 9 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.4 g
- Cholesterol - 0.6 mg
- Sodium - 626.5 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 17.2 g
- Dietary Fiber - 6.4 g
- Sugars - 7.7 g
- Protein - 4.4 g
- Calcium - 94.3 mg
- Iron - 2.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 33.3 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Bring a pot of salted water to a boil.
Step 2
Add green beans and simmer until just tender, about 3 minutes.
Step 3
Drain; plunge the beans into a large bowl of cold water to stop the cooking and drain again.
Step 4
Heat butter and oil in a large skillet over high heat.
Step 5
Add the cumin and sauté until fragrant, about 15 seconds.
Step 6
Add beans, salt, pepper, lemon zest and lemon juice; sauté until beans are crisp tender and lightly browned, about 4 minutes.
Tips
No special items needed.