President Obama's Green Beans And Golden Beets
Recipe: #44097
January 22, 2025
Categories: Side Dishes, Beans, Beet, French, Vegan Green Beans, more
"Official recipe for a first course side dish served on January 20, 2013 at the luncheon following the second Obama Inauguration."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (612.9 g)
- Calories 194.1
- Total Fat - 4.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 0.8 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 1236.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 35.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 7.5 g
- Sugars - 27.4 g
- Protein - 6.1 g
- Calcium - 73.4 mg
- Iron - 3 mg
- Vitamin C - 13.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Bring water to a boil and add 1/2 tablespoon kosher salt.
Step 2
(Beets are cleaner and easier if cooked whole and unpeeled and everything done after cooked)
Step 3
(I would quarter them)
Step 4
Place beets into water gently and allow to cook for 5 minutes or until tender.
Step 5
Remove beets using a strainer and set in a bowl.
Step 6
Allow water to return to a boil and gently add the green beans for 4 minutes until tender.
Step 7
Remove the beans from the pot using a strainer and add to the bowl with the beets.
Step 8
Place olive oil in a sauté pan on medium heat.
Step 9
Add the shallots to cook until tender.
Step 10
Add the beets and beans and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Tips
No special items needed.