String beans is a vegetable plant in the legume family. Among housewives, this product is very popular. And this is not surprising, because bean pods can be prepared very quickly, and most importantly, delicious. It should be noted that this plant is unpretentious in cultivation. Green beans add a unique taste to the dish, which is why this product is widely used throughout the world.

Useful properties of a representative of the legume family

It is difficult to overestimate the benefits of consuming this product. Bean pods will help restore hormonal balance, so it is recommended to use them in cooking during puberty. Women in position can eat this product to prevent hormonal disorders.

Green beans are included in the menu of a person who takes care of his health, regularly goes in for sports and keeps an eye on his figure. It should be noted that the main value of this product is the ability to prepare dietary dishes from it. Many diet programs include beans.

About 7% of the world's population suffers from diabetes. Oddly enough, bean pods are an excellent remedy for this disease. They have the ability to lower the amount of glucose. The most effective for these purposes is a decoction of pods with blueberry leaves. This liquid is recommended to drink half a cup before eating.

Among other things, green beans is an indispensable tool for the prevention of a large number of diseases, such as prostatitis, potency disorders, arrhythmias, etc.

Bean Recipes

Most people have ever come across this product in stores, supermarkets, or in the market, but not everyone knows how to make bean pods. In fact, there are a lot of recipes. Housewives often add this product to salads, cook soups from it or stew it with meat.

And it is not necessary to be an experienced cook, even a novice in this business can easily cook beans. This product goes well with chicken, potatoes, eggplant, tomatoes, mushrooms, pasta, lemon, etc. Bean pods stand out for their exceptional taste and low calorie content. Recipes with photos will be discussed below.

Beans stewed with mushrooms

This is one of the simplest but also delicious dishes. To prepare it you will need:

• 500 g of green beans;
• 5 onions;
• 500 g of champignons.

First you need to thoroughly rinse the mushrooms and cut them into 4-5 small parts. Then put them in a pan with olive oil, preheating it. After a little stewing, you can add onions, sliced \u200b\u200bin half rings. After you need to fry until the moisture begins to stand out in the mushrooms. When this happens, it's time to add our main ingredient - green beans.

Then sprinkle with seasonings and simmer until tender. For a more refined taste, you can put a tomato. Together with it, the appearance will be more attractive. This dish can be eaten in any form, but most prefer it hot.

String Bean Salad

Cooking bean pods in most cases is straightforward. This product is actively added to dishes with meat, but vegetarians have reason to rejoice. For the salad you need:

• 500 g of green beans;
• 300 g carrots;
• 1 teaspoon of sugar;
• 3 tablespoons of vinegar, preferably grape.

Carrots need to be cut into strips, and bean pods into small pieces. In boiling water, previously salted, you should put these products at the same time. Simmer for 5-6 minutes over high heat with an uncovered lid.

Then drain, rinse in cold water and dry. Then transfer the carrots with beans to a bowl, add sugar, vinegar, spices, olive or vegetable oil and mix. For beauty, you can put greens in the finished salad.

Beans with meat

Dishes from green bean pods are always obtained aromatic and sophisticated. A large number of people cannot imagine their life without eating meat. If you add this variety of beans to it, you get an incredibly tasty dish. In order to cook it, you will need:

• 500 g of fresh green beans;
• 500 g of meat;
• 2 tablespoons of nuts;
• 1 onion;
• 2-3 cloves of garlic.

It should be noted that it is desirable to use pork as meat, as it is the most juicy. Bean pods need to be well washed and cut into 4-5 parts. Then put it on fire in salted water. It must be ensured that it is not digested.

At this time, onions and garlic should be chopped and sautéed in butter. At the end of this process, meat is added there, previously cut into small pieces. All this is closed by a lid and stewed until cooked. In the process you need to add vegetable oil.

When the meat is ready, you need to add string beans to it. The final stage of preparation is the combination of the dish with walnuts. For lovers of pungency, it is recommended to add red pepper and peeled tomato. To surprise guests with the beauty of the dish, you can decorate with greens before serving.

Bean Pod Soup

How to cook bean pods in an unusual way? The answer is simple - cook the soup. This dish is quite rare, but its taste is not inferior to others. To make the soup you need:

• 300 g of green beans;
• 1 onion;
• 2 carrots;
• 5 potatoes;
• 2-3 slices of white bread.

First you need to finely chop the onion, grate the carrots and throw it all in boiling water for 5-7 minutes. Beans should also be cut into pieces and fry in a pan with the addition of olive oil. Small cubes of potatoes should be put on a carrot with onions. According to its readiness, add the green bean pods, add salt and remove it from the gas after boiling.

Once the soup has cooled, you need to blender its ingredients to a puree state. We put on the burner and bring it to a boil. This dish is served hot with the addition of greens. From bread you can make croutons that go well with this soup.

String Beans with Chicken

What can be prepared from bean pods? Probably the first thought that comes to the minds of housewives is a vegetable with chicken. Many products go well with this meat, and beans are no exception. To prepare the dish we need:

• 500 g of green beans;
• 2 pcs. chicken fillet;
• 5 cloves of garlic;
• 1 teaspoon of honey;
• 2 tablespoons of soy sauce.

You must marinate the meat first. This is done with soy sauce, honey and various spices, you can add olive oil. Before you start pickling, you need to cut the fillet into small pieces. While preparing meat, you need to do beans. It must be washed, cut into bars and boiled (5-6 minutes).

After that, put the finished beans in a heated frying pan, add garlic and spices, chopped into small pieces, to it. In vegetable oil, fry this mixture for two minutes, then put the resulting composition on a plate. In the same pan, fry the chicken fillet until cooked. Then put the meat on top of the beans without mixing. Bon Appetit.

Fried Beans

The simplest and most delicious dish, according to the people, can become even better. To prepare it you will need:

• 400 g of string beans;
• 2 eggs.

First you need to rinse the beans, cut them into bars and cook for 8 minutes. Then put butter in a frying pan, add boiled pods. You should immediately break a couple of eggs. During cooking, stir the dish a little. Serve garnished with greens. The dish can be consumed both hot and cold.

Drawing a conclusion, it can be noted that green beans are a universal product that gives food a unique taste. All people involved in sports or adhering to a healthy lifestyle are required to have it in their diet. String beans are easily digested, so it can be eaten by both adults and children.

Some people think that unripe cereal beans are green beans. And from it you can cook different dishes. But the fact is that grain beans are suitable only for grain (this is the name), and vegetable bean varieties, or, as they are also called, sugar ones, are grown on pods. Such beans have a very delicate pod without parchment coarse layer.

String beans are eaten when its pods are still green, tender, and the grains are small and very soft.

There are varieties (intermediate), which also belong to cereals, but they have such a thin parchment layer that at a young age these shoulder blades can be used as food. Of course, after boiling them.

How to prepare green beans for cooking

• The pods are sorted out, removing the yellowed ones, because they will remain stiff even after boiling.
• The pods break the tail and pull in the opposite direction from it. In this case, the vein connecting the two halves of the pod comes off.
• After that, the pods are washed in cold water.
• Before cooking, they are cut across into three or four parts or cut with diamonds.

How to cook green beans in a pan

• To preserve more nutrients, the pods are placed in boiling water, which is salted (10 g of salt is taken per liter of water).
• So that the pods do not lose their green color, they are boiled in a large amount of water (3-4 liters of water are taken per kilogram of beans).
• Cook until tender, trying not to digest them. This is about 5-7 minutes. But still, the cooking time depends on the maturity of the beans: the older the pod, the longer it will cook.
• Then the beans are thrown into a colander.

Green beans can be stewed in a small amount of salted water. The cover must be closed. In this case, the water is not drained, and the boiled pods are mixed with spices, laid out in a salad bowl and sprinkled with herbs.

How to Cook String Beans in the Microwave

• Green bean pods are sorted, removing unsuitable for cooking, free from tails and veins.
• Cut into pieces.
• Put in a pan and pour cold water.
• Warm up at full power for 11 minutes. In this case, the lid must be closed.
• Pods are laid in a colander. Or add the remaining vegetables, spices and cook for a few more minutes, depending on the recipe.

How to cook green beans in a slow cooker

• Pods are torn off from the pods and the vein that fastens both flaps is removed.
• Shovels are washed in cold water.
• Pour water into the multicooker, salt and bring to a boil.
• Lower the pods and cook for 6-7 minutes. If you cook frozen green beans, then the cooking time increases by five minutes.
• Throw back into a colander to drain water. Use depending on the recipe.

If the multicooker has the “Steaming” function, then the green bean pods can be steamed. For this, a little water is poured into the multicooker, the beans are placed in a special bowl with holes. Cook until the blades are soft, it is about 10-15 minutes.

How to cook green beans in a double boiler

• Prepared beans are washed in cold water.
• Stack in a bowl a double boiler.
• Connect to the network.
• Cook for about 15 minutes until soft.
• Served with butter, sauce or used to prepare other dishes.

How to Cook Frozen String Beans

• Frozen green beans, not thawing, dipped in boiling salted water and cook for about 7 minutes.
• Throw back into a colander and wait until all the water drains. If the shoulder blades are needed for the salad, then they can be lowered immediately after cooking for a few seconds in a pot of cold water. This method of cooling will not allow them to soften very much and lose color.
• When cooking dishes, which include other vegetables, take into account the cooking time of all the ingredients, and they are placed in a pan in order of priority.

Boiled green beans is good as an independent dish, or it can be used to prepare other equally tasty dishes.

There are dozens of recipes on how to cook green beans, you can just fry it with an egg, boil and mix with garlic and olive oil or stew stew. This is a very flexible product in cooking, it can be prepared anywhere - in a pan, pan, in the oven, in the microwave, pickle and even sugar, use as an independent dish, or as a side dish.

Cooking secrets

A truly delicious dish will turn out if you adhere to the recommendations of experienced chefs:

1. You need to buy, the pods of which are light green in color, curved, crispy and dense, but easily broken in half. If they are too hard, it means that the beans are overripe. Only young shoots have a delicate taste and juiciness.
2. Before cooking, each pod must be cut from two sides.
3. Dip the beans only in boiling water and cook for no more than five minutes, otherwise it will break apart, acquire unpleasant fiber content and lose most of its useful qualities. By the way, for many dishes, beans should only be cooked until half-cooked.
4. After the plant is boiled, it will need to be thrown into a colander and allowed to dry a little.
5. If you are not going to cook the beans immediately after boiling, then you need to cut it into pieces, put it in bags and send it to the freezer. As such, it can be stored for a very long time.

If you follow these few simple secrets of preparing green beans, then any dish will turn out tasty and healthy.

To garnish

As a side dish, you can serve both bean salad and light vegetable stew. Below are some excellent and easy-to-follow recipes.

Fried green beans with eggs

  For this recipe you will need 0.4 kg beans, 2, 1 tbsp. l vinegar and 30 grams of butter:

Salad "Eating"

A simple and inexpensive side dish with a piquant taste. To prepare it you will need:

• 0.5 kg of beans;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1/4 fresh chili peppers;
• 1 teaspoon of grated;
• 1 tbsp. a spoonful of soy sauce and apple cider vinegar;
• greens to taste.

Cooking process:

With cheese

Green beans can also be cooked with cheese, while receiving a very tasty side dish. You will need carrots, onions, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sour cream, 50 grams of hard cheese and a kilogram of beans:

If you cook from, then you need to prepare it in advance, and to maintain a bright green color, use an ice bath - after you boil it immediately rinse with cold water or place in a container with ice cubes.

Chicken Bean Soup

String beans: how to cook it in soup? Very simple! You can choose both a vegetarian option and a meat broth. Especially delicious is chicken soup.

Ingredients:

• 400 grams of chicken;
• 2 cup green beans;
• 300 grams of brown beans;
• 5 glasses of vegetable stock;
• 3 tomatoes;
• 2 zucchini;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 12 basil leaves.

Cooking:

Second courses

Many housewives serve green beans on the table as an independent dish.

Phali

  Phali is a popular dish of Georgian cuisine, for its preparation you need to take 400 grams of green beans, 70 grams, a little cilantro and parsley, one onion and lemon. Add salt and pepper to taste at the very end.

Most often, phali are served with meat and a glass of red wine, decorating each serving with several sprigs of fresh herbs.

Stew

How to cook stew with green beans:

Beans because of their characteristics can be the cause of increased gas formation, so before cooking it must be soaked in a weak solution of soda.

Gyuvech

There are a lot of recipes from green frozen beans, one of them is gouache - a hearty Bulgarian dish. Traditionally, it is prepared in a clay pot, but you can use the usual heat-resistant pan. To prepare the cucumber, you will need the following ingredients:

• 500 grams of pork;
• 300 grams of green beans;
• 2 onions;
• 150 grams of green peas;
• 4 tbsp. tablespoons of sunflower oil;
• 4 potatoes;
• 4 bell peppers;
• a bunch of parsley.

How to cook:

Step by step recipe:

The finished dish can be sprinkled with black ground pepper for pungency or sesame seeds.

Nicoise salad with green beans and cod liver

Nicoise salad is a great choice for a festive table. This recipe is a great example of how to make green beans in pods deliciously. For him you will need:

• 180 grams of cod liver;
• 200 grams of green beans;
• 3 eggs;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 3 potatoes;
• 100 grams of olives;
• 3-4 leaves of green salad;
• 1/4 lemon.

How to cook:

Pay attention to the recipes with green beans with photos on the site, which describe in detail the preparation of dishes with beans. The basic rule for preparing green beans is to cook for several minutes, not more so that in the finished dish, green beans retain a bright green color. In some countries, especially in southern Europe, green beans are particularly respected. In the Dictionary V.I. Dahl has such a proverb: "The Bulgarian disappeared without beans ...". There is some truth to this. Many of us (southerners do not count) got acquainted with green beans thanks to Bulgarian, Romanian, or Hungarian pickles. String beans are great for canning or freezing. These methods allow you to save vitamin C and carotene in the pods. In addition, along with peas, beans contain protein, the amino acid composition of which is similar to meat protein.

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String beans are available all year round in stores. You can see a variety of green string beans from fresh to canned. In summer, you can buy it fresh. It is sold frozen throughout the year. You can find canned. Green beans are a nutritious product and can be, as an independent dish, so become a complement to any other.

In view of the fact that this type of bean is not so popular yet, it is important to learn how to cook it correctly and pleased with its taste.

How to make fresh green beans

As you know, any type of bean is somewhat toxic and simply must undergo heat treatment so that toxic substances are destroyed in it (in a string bean it is pheasin). It is for this reason that fresh green beans must first be boiled.

First, the string beans are sorted, cleaned from twigs and washed thoroughly under running water. To do this, the selected pods can be folded into a colander or a deep bowl. Stir the pods during washing to wash away all dirt and sticky leaves or other debris.

It is also very advisable to soak the pods in water (only cold) for several hours before the cooking process.

Drain the water and leave them in the colander for another minute, so that the glass is excess water or dry with a paper towel.

Cut the ends of the beans on both sides with a knife. There are bean varieties that have fibers on top of the cusps. To remove them, first break the pod from the tip that was attached to the plant and pull down along the entire length of the pod.

It is necessary to lay the prepared vegetable only in salted and already boiled water.

Depending on the degree of maturity of the beans, the time of its preparation varies from five (if the pods are young) to seven minutes. It is impossible to digest it, because the beans will become unpleasant in taste and will become stiff-fibrous.

The readiness of the beans is indicated by the fact that the pods stop crackling, while remaining solid. For inexperienced housewives, the method of determining readiness will be a light pricking of the pod on the fork.

After that, the product reclines in a colander and allow to drain water and cool completely.

To make the pods crunch. Immediately after draining the water in which they were boiled, they are placed under a stream of cold water from the tap.

It can be placed in an ice container (the process of further heat treatment is abruptly stopped, and a bright attractive green color of the product is preserved. By the way, a few drops of lemon juice can be added to the water during cooking).

For cooking, it is preferable to choose young beans, which are very easy to distinguish from the old: mature pods are stiff and darker in color. Young, not overripe beans are characterized by a soft yellow or pale green hue. It is worth remembering that overripe pods will not taste delicate and will acquire fibrousity.

Do not buy stained pods, which may indicate spoilage.

How to Cook Fresh Green Beans in the Microwave

Prepare the bean pods as described above. Place the prepared beans in a pan suitable for cooking in the microwave with 2 tablespoons of water.

Put in the microwave and turn it on at full power for 3 to 7 minutes. Depends on the amount of beans, the shape of the cut and the power of the microwave.

Shuffle and turn it on for the same time. Or by turning down the power, set the cooking time from 8 to 12 minutes.

How to cook green beans in a double boiler

In a double boiler you can cook whole pods or chopped. Put the beans in a bowl and turn on the double boiler. Beans in a double boiler are cooked from 18 to 15 minutes. Depends on the type of double boiler and the amount of beans.

How to Cook Frozen String Beans

In winter, frozen string beans become the most relevant. It can be purchased both in the store and frozen on its own, like other types of fruits or berries.

Unfortunately, but the method of preparing frozen green beans, which is indicated on most packages, often does not lead to a positive result, giving the healthy vitaminized product a non aesthetic appearance.

To cook a deliciously frozen green bean, take note of the instructions of experienced housewives, which are as follows:

• use an exceptionally large pan;
• filling the cooking vessel with water only halfway;
• before laying in a pan, rinse the pods under a stream of hot water, not cold (to wash off ice and snow);
• put beans only in salt boiling water (this will reduce the cooking time and preserve all the nutrients);
• do not cover the pan with a lid during cooking;
• cook no more than 5-7 minutes.

Like fresh green beans, boiled frozen is thrown into a colander and put for 10 minutes under cold water.

After draining excess water, it is ready for further use for cooking a variety of dishes.

If the beans after full readiness were left for some time at room temperature, then they will have to be heated in a saucepan or pan with the addition of butter (vegetable) oil.

How to Fry String Beans

For lovers of crisp, you can find many recipes on how to fry green beans. True, some of them for some reason do not take into account the necessary heat treatment.

That is why any recipe that does not indicate the stage of preliminary cooking can be attributed to incorrect and even harmful.

Before frying beans, it must be boiled until half ready in salted water. Rinse with cold water and dry.

Pods can be cut portionwise both before and after cooking.

You need to put beans in the pan only when the pan is completely warmed up and the oil starts to “sizzle”.

If you want to cook green beans in egg batter, but this will require patience and more time.

True, it is best to add boiled asparagus to omelets or fried eggs with fried eggs. It goes well with these products.

What are the spices for green beans

Like any bean culture, green beans "love" a number of certain spices that will only emphasize the taste and aroma of the plant product.

All chefs know that green beans are not the owner of pronounced taste. The dishes from it are rather tender and, to some extent, neutral.

That is why culinary experts are not afraid to add coriander, black and allspice, garlic, onions (fried), hot bitter pepper, paprika, basil, caraway seeds, zira, cilantro and turmeric to the string beans. Most often, of course, black pepper, onion and garlic are used.

That's all the secrets of how to cook fresh and frozen green beans.