The ‘Green bean is an American cuisine dish that is generally served as an accompaniment to Thanksgiving dinner. The main ingredient in this dish are green beans served in a casserole (casserole) with cream of mushrooms, and abundant fried onion. The casserole usually has black pepper and / or soy sauce as less traditional ingredients.
Learn how to make your Green Bean Casserole in an easy and simple way with this recipe!
Green Bean Casserole
4
servings30
minutes40
minutesTo make your Green Bean Casserole you will need the ingredients from the list. Follow the step-by-step preparation mode and watch the video for more details.
Ingredients
250g Green beans
400g Mushrooms
4 Garlic cloves
4 Rashers of bacon
40ml Double cream
Knob of butter
Salt and pepper (to season)
1 tbsp Plain white flour
Chicken stock
Grated parmesan
- French fried onions
1 Onion
Milk
Plain flour
Directions
- To begin with take 400g of washed mushrooms and slice.
- Now take a large saucepan and place over a medium heat on the stove.
- Add a knob of butter and allow to melt then add in the sliced mushrooms.
- Also add 4 finely chopped garlic cloves and 4 rashers or chopped bacon (if you want to keep it vegetarian, simply skip this step out).
- Fry these ingredients for 5 minutes, making sure some of the juices from the mushrooms remain in the pan.
- To these juices, add 1 tbsp of plain flour.
- Mix the flour into the juices until the sauce becomes thicker.
- Next, pour in 40ml of double or heavy cream then top the ingredients up with vegetable stock until the ingredients are just covered.
- Give everything in the saucepan a stir then leave to simmer over a low heat for 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in a separate saucepan, bring some water up to boiling point and blanch 250g or green beans.
- After the 5 minutes, take the green beans from the saucepan and place them in a bowl of cold water (which will stop them cooking).
- After 15 minutes of the mushroom sauce thickening up, add the green beans to the saucepan.
- Mix them in until all coated in the sauce, then take an oven dish.
- Pour the content of the saucepan into the dish and again, make sure those beans are coated in that lovely mushroom sauce.
- Then place into an oven that’s been preheated to 180c, which with 350f.
- Then leave to bake in the oven for 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile we’ll prepare some French fried onions for the topping.
- They’re easy to make because all you have to do is slice an onion, coat the onions in some milk and flour, then fry in a hot pan with some oil.
- When they’ve turned lovely and golden, set aside.
- After 15 minutes of baking, remove the green bean casserole from the oven.
- Again, give it a stir to make sure it’s all cooked and the sauce is lovely and thick.
- The add the french fried onions to the top.
- Also, grate over some parmesan cheese then your green bean casserole is ready to enjoy.
