Refreshing crunch: green beans with roasted almonds and garlic - voila! Food

2023-02-22T15:14:11.542Z

A simple and easy recipe for the most delicious and refreshing side dish - crunchy green beans with toasted almonds, garlic, lemon and slices of hot pepper. Perfect as a side dish or as a snack. For the full recipe>>

Addition with color, freshness and crispness.

Green beans with garlic and almonds (photo: Walla! System, Einav Hakon)

Fresh green beans are a real treasure to me and now is the season to find particularly beautiful pods.

Last time I added it to a pot of meatballs in tomato sauce, but this time it is the star.

I rinse the pods lightly in boiling water and transfer them straight to the water with ice in order to stop the cooking and leave it a little crispy.

Together with roasted almonds, garlic, lemon and hot pepper, you get a fresh and wonderful dish, which I really like to serve as a side dish between all the dishes and carbohydrates, and even just as a snack.

Einav Hakon is a mother, a financial and pension planner, and a food blogger.
If you want to see what else she's cooking, you can go to her Instagram page.

Green beans with garlic and almonds (photo: Einav Hakon)

Ingredients

- 500 grams of green beans (recommended fresh, but you can also use frozen)
- 1 cup whole or halved blanched almonds
- 10-12 garlic cloves, peeled and halved
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 1 tablespoon coarse salt
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- ½ lemon squeezed for juice
To submit:
- 1 sliced green hot pepper (optional)
- A little bit
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Preparation

How do you make green beans with almonds and garlic?

1 If using fresh green beans, wash well and remove the sting from each pod.
2 Fill a pot with plenty of water and bring to a boil.
Prepare a bowl with ice water next to it (cold water with ice cubes).
Blanch the green beans in the boiling water for about 4 minutes, filter, transfer directly to cool in ice water and filter again.

*If you use ready-made frozen beans, there is no need to cook, just thaw.
3 Heat a deep pan like a wok and pour a quarter of a cup of oil.
Add the almonds and fry while stirring until golden -
caution!
We don't want the almonds to burn and become bitter.
4 Add the garlic and fry together for another 2 minutes.
5 Add the green beans, lemon juice and spices to the pan, mix and sauté everything together for about 3 minutes and transfer straight to a serving plate.
6 Sprinkle slices of hot green pepper and a little sesame and serve.