Green Beans With Lemon and Pine Nuts

"Despite the fact that they require few ingredients and little effort, these beans always get raves."
 
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Ready In:
25mins
Ingredients:
5
Serves:
8
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ingredients

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directions

  • Cook beans in a 4-quart saucepan of boiling salted water until just tender, about 5 minutes.
  • Then drain well in a colander.
  • Transfer to a bowl and toss with nuts, parsley, zest, oil, and salt and pepper to taste.

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Reviews

  1. I have never, ever liked fresh green beans. Despised them, in fact. For some odd reason, I decided to give this recipe a try and WOW! This recipe is going into heavy rotation at my house. The pine nuts and the lemon zest add such a complex flavor.
     
  2. Served this at a dinner party and everone seemed to enjoy the beans, but the nuts all sifted to the bottom of the bowl and were difficult to get. I love pine nuts so this was a real disappointment. Anyone else have this issue? We still liked the flavor very much.
     
  3. I am so used to just steaming veggies and eating them plain that this was a nice treat! I still steamed them, but then added the extras. Sadly, the rabbits got to the parsley in my garden so I added basil instead. And my pine nuts were toasted (adds that extra yum factor when you toast nuts!). I will make this again!
     
  4. Really nice, light, flavorful way to serve fresh green beans. Use the full amount of parsley for best results.
     
  5. I left my beans a little longer. Being mid winter, fresh parsley from my garden wasn't an option. But I did have some that I dried at the end of the season, so I used that. We did feel that it needed a little bit of salt, but that was quickly solved by a couple of twists of the salt grinder. Served as a side to grilled fish
     
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  1. I am so used to just steaming veggies and eating them plain that this was a nice treat! I still steamed them, but then added the extras. Sadly, the rabbits got to the parsley in my garden so I added basil instead. And my pine nuts were toasted (adds that extra yum factor when you toast nuts!). I will make this again!
     

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