((I have 8 MINUTES!!)) How can I season boiled green beans?

Here is a fantastic recipe that is quick and easy.

Chinese Sauteed Green Beans

Yields: 4 servings

1 tablespoon less-sodium soy sauce

1 tablespoon honey

1 tablespoon unsalted butter

2 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil

12 ounce green beans, trimmed

Kosher salt

1 tablespoon minced garlic

Combine the soy sauce, honey, and 1 tablespoon water in a small dish and set near the stove. Set a shallow serving dish near the stove, too.

In a 10-inch straight-sided sauté pan, heat the butter with the olive oil over medium-high heat. When the butter is melted, add the green beans and 1/2 tsp. salt and toss with tongs to coat well. Cook, turning the beans occasionally, until most are well browned, shrunken, and tender, 7 to 8 minutes. (The butter in the pan will have turned dark brown.)

Reduce the heat to low, add the garlic, and cook, stirring constantly with a heatproof rubber spatula, until the garlic is softened and fragrant, 15 to 20 seconds. Carefully add the soy mixture (you’ll need to scrape the honey into the pan). Cook, stirring, until the liquid reduces to a glazey consistency that coats the beans, 30 to 45 seconds.

Immediately transfer the beans to the serving dish, scraping the pan with the spatula to get all of the garlicky sauce. Let sit for a few minutes and then serve warm.

Hi Hunni, A Traditional sauce is holandaise. If you google you will find a recipe it is long to write or explain but very easy to make. or another is a basic white sauce made with half milk and half chicken or vegetable stock,called a veloute or velvet sauce. Or if you fry breadcrumbs in a very little oil in which you add a couple of cloves of garlic to flavour the oil -after which you throw the garlic away - this will give the beans a different texture and flavour. i hope this helps. all the best. Rab

Salt to taste anf return to pot onto the turned off element and add a good knob of butter. Toss occasionally and serve, drizzling the butter over the top. or add some more butter.

After they are boiled drain and add any of the following:

Cooked crumbled bacon, microwave the bacon if you must, and some sauteed onions.

Garlic sauteed in butter.

Toasted nuts.

Sauteed onions, toasted sesame seeds and butter.

How about adding some orange zest and fresh minced garlic?

sesame oil is a good choice...a few drops will give the beans a rounded depth of nutty flavor ..salt and pepper as usual with it...

i personally would say a little minced garlic if you happen to have any (o rgarlic power if you must) little little bit of butter salt and maybe black pepper to taste

You can transfer to a skillet with butter or oil & slivered almonds.

Throw a piece of bacon in them, or salt, pepper, and some butter.. or all of the above..

drop in some beef bullion