Green Beans Almondine (String Beans Almondine)

Green Beans Almondine is a perfect everyday side dish and great food for your keto diet as well. This is an easy and quick low-carb dish with crispy nutty toasted almonds.

Green Beans Almondine is an easy and basic french bean recipe. This is a healthy dish to serve as a side or as your low-carb snack.

French beans or green beans are zero in carbs and fat and high in protein as well as fiber. That's why this is one of the best vegetables for a weight loss diet.

If you are following a low-carb diet or keto diet, you may trust this amazing green beans almondine.

This is a great snack and delicious side dish for everyday meals or special occasions e.g. holiday dinners/ holiday menus. It fits into every frame so well. This is a perfect side dish.

What is Green Beans Almondine?

If you are wondering "what is green beans almondine?", this is sauteed green beans with toppings of almonds. Almondine is a culinary term used for almond dressing. This is a French dish originally.

This is a healthy side dish. If you are on a keto diet, this will be a great meal or main dish for a busy night of the week. It's an elegant, simple, and tasty side dish. It's made with simple ingredients and a few minutes only.

Adding crispy slivered almonds compliments the tender sauteed beans and adds a nice crunch and nutty flavor to the beans. You can also add sauteed shallots to the beans for extra flavor.

Green Beans/ String Beans

Green Beans are often referred to as snap beans or string beans.

Fresh green beans are a high source of protein for vegetarians. And because of the high protein factor, you will not crave any food for long hours. So this helps in losing that extra weight.

It's always been a great food or vegetable to add to your diet. The protein component helps in building muscle mass or say prevents loss of muscle mass during the process of fat & calorie burning.

Sauteed Green Beans with Almonds

If you are looking for an easy green bean recipe or meatless and vegan green bean recipes, then this green bean almondine recipe is so perfect.

It's an easy recipe where soft and perfectly cooked green beans are tossed with crispy toasted almondine to make a perfect and easy side dish or snack.

On top of it, the crunchy toasted almonds complete the recipe. It's simple yet so full of flavors. You can toast the almond slices on a skillet or in the oven. Here I have toasted this in a small tsp of olive oil just before sauteing the green beans.

Also read my similar recipe: Keto Green Beans Sauteed With Garlic & Keto Buttery Garlic Spinach, Italian Green Beans Recipe.

Ingredients

Green beans - regular green beans / French green beans or string green beans

Almonds - Slivered almonds

Olive oil - or vegan butter

Garlic - minced or garlic powder

Ice - or cold water

Salt & Pepper

How To Make Green Beans Almondine?

Let's divide the cooking process into 4 steps:

1. Blanch the beans
2. Ice bath beans
3. Toast almonds
4. Saute beans with garlic

This is a simple green bean recipe that is easy and hardly takes 15 minutes to cook. Also, it doesn't take much pain for prepping. Just cut off the top and bottom ends. All done.

Blanch the beans (3 Min + 2 min in Ice water)

Now before blanching, wash off thoroughly and trim the head and tail parts. Now blanch beans in water for 3 minutes.

Ice Bath The Beans

After that just remove the beans from the hot water with help of a tong or pass it through a colander. Then take a bowl of ice water and immerse the blanched beans in ice-cold water for 2 minutes. This will help in retaining the bright green color of the beans and also helps stop overcooking. Now remove the beans and pat dry with a paper towel.

Toast Slivered Almonds (20 - 30 sec)

In a dry skillet or frying pan, heat a spoon full of olive oil or any vegetable oil on medium heat.

Now saute sliced almonds for 20 - 30 seconds till it starts changing color to a golden brown.

Don't overbrown the almonds. Toast on medium-low flame. Once done transfer to a clean bowl.

Saute beans with garlic (4 - 5 Min)

Now in the same oil add chopped or minced fresh garlic and saute for 10 - 15 seconds on medium-low heat till it becomes fragrant and starts changing color slightly.

Add blanched beans to the pan. Add salt and black pepper to taste. You may add some red pepper flakes to the beans to make it spicy. Add a little water (2 tbsp) to coat it all nicely. On medium flame saute for 3 - 5 minutes. Don't overcook as we need tender-crisp textures and not soggy ones. Keep stirring in between.

Remove from skillet and transfer to a plate. Add toasted almonds on top of it. Drizzle a squeeze of fresh lemon juice. Your delicious Green Beans Almondine is ready in a cook time of 10 - 15 minutes only.

Green Beans Almondine

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