Sauteed Wax Beans with Garlic

Elena Butuc

This recipe was automatically translated from Romanian. View original here

I am often asked for dietary recipes, good for those who care about their body or want to have a balanced and healthy diet. To be honest, I cook a lot on a diet, but it seems like the obvious things to me seem impossible to others - cooking with a little oil, for example - vegetables in light cooked versions for many are tasteless and flavorful food.

Well, let me tell you that these beans (green or yellow), my favorite garnish for a baked fish or a slice of grilled / baked meat. I really recommend the preparation method, it is healthy, tasty and very simple.

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Ingredients

Metric US

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Wax beans

500 g

or green beans

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Green onions

2 pieces

you can also use plain white onions, but nutritionists do not recommend it - the lighter is the green one

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Extravirgin olive oil

1 tbsp

or sunflower oil

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Garlic cloves

2 pieces

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Salt

0.5 tsp

to taste

Step by step

The beans are cleaned and washed - you can break them into shorter pieces or leave them whole.

Now you have 2 options to cook them:

- Steamed, that's what I did - it keeps all its vitamins and the pods taste better.

- boil in water, simpler and classic.

However, in both variants do not boil them too much, about 15 minutes, to be a little al dente.

When the pods are almost cooked, prepare and heat a deep pan well.

Add half a glass of water, 1 tablespoon of oil and finely chopped green onions. Let it cook like this until almost all the water evaporates, and the onion is cooked.