Roasted Garlic Green Beans are an easy and delicious side dish that will go with pretty much anything. Just 5 ingredients (including seasoning) and you will want to eat these straight off the pan.
These crispy green beans are the perfect side dish for all our your favourite meals. Bursting with garlic flavour, they are so simple to make and a delicious way to get some extra greens in your life. You can even make them a little more indulgent with a sprinkle of Parmesan if you like.
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Why should you try it?
- An easy side dish
- Just 5 ingredients
- Great for batch cooking
- Just 154 calories per serving
- Can be made more indulgent with some Parmesan
What you will need
- Green beans - When it comes to buying green beans, pick only the ones that feel firm and crisp. Avoid green beans with bruises or discoloration, they should be green, as the name suggested. Good beans will snap easily and cleanly when fresh. Don't pick green beans with swollen or large pods.
- Oil - We used a really good quality olive oil.
- Garlic - Fresh is always best, but you could use ready chopped garlic in a jar to save you some time.
- Seasoning
- Flaked almonds (optional)
Step by step
One: Chop the ends off the green beans.
Two: Put them in a bowl with the olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper and mix well.
Three: Put them on a baking try and in the oven at 200C/400F/Gas 6 for 25 minutes (turning half way), until crispy.
Are these healthy?
Green beans are a great healthy side dish, especially as they are baked in olive oil. Plus, any opportunity to get some extra greens in your diet is a good thing I think.
Green beans are not only a good source of iron, but also fibre, folate, zinc and potassium.
How to adapt
We love a recipe that you can adapt and make your own, and this one is just that! One of our favourite ways to adapt it when we want something a little more indulgent, is to mix some grated Parmesan in to the bowl with all the other ingredients - it makes these beans lovely and crispy.
We let the garlic flavour shine through, but you can mix it up with some other flavours. Paprika and chilli work well if you want something smokey and spicy. You can also use your favourite spice blends like Mexican or Cajun.
Other ways to add extra flavour include a squeeze of lemon juice just before serving, or a sprinkling of crispy chopped bacon. We served ours with some flaked almonds for some crunch.
What to serve these with
These garlic green beans pretty much go with anything, but our favourite dishes to serve it with are Slow Cooker Moroccan Chicken, Roasted Harissa Chicken, Stuffed Chicken Breast and Lemon and Rosemary Salmon.
Extra tips
- You can make this easy side dish a little more indulgent by mixing some grated Parmesan in to it before it goes in the oven.
- Add some extra flavour with paprika and chilli, or your favourite spice blend.
- A little squeeze of lemon juice before serving adds some freshness to the dish.
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Recipe
Easy Garlic Green Beans
Ingredients
- 250 g green beans
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 garlic cloves crushed
- 1 pinch sea salt and black pepper
- Flaked almonds for serving optional
Instructions
- Trim the ends off the green beans.
- Put them in a bowl with the olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper and mix well.
- Put them on a baking try and in the oven at 200C/400F/Gas 6 for 25 minutes (turning half way), until crispy.
Notes
- You can make this easy side dish a little more indulgent by mixing some grated Parmesan in to it before it goes in the oven.
- Add some extra flavour with paprika and chilli, or your favourite spice blend.
- A little squeeze of lemon juice before serving adds some freshness to the dish.
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