This delicious and simple side is the best fresh green beans recipe, and is paleo and keto friendly!
Fresh greens beans marry with garden tomatoes and basil to create an awesome side dish with simple ingredients!
Green beans are one of my very favorite vegetables, and when summer hits, I have beans coming out my ears!
Where I could eat them most nights very happily, my husband cringes at the idea of yet another night of beans (and in the spring, he has a similar feeling about asparagus, but still loves it occasionally…especially my grilled asparagus!!).
What is one to do?! He picked a woman who will always shop in-season for taste and economy, and quite frankly, fresh, in-season produce can’t be beat!
This simple side marries the very best flavors of summer (or at least three of them!). Beans, basil, and cherry tomatoes are staples in my garden, and I absolutely LOVE sending the kids out to harvest the goodies for dinner.
This recipe came about as a way to use up my garden’s bounty. I love this preparation, and I can bet you will too!
How to cook fresh green beans:
Green beans actually take much longer to cook than many veggies! In order to be tender, they need to be steamed, blanched, or roasted.
- Blanching: Bring a pot of salted water to boil, add the trimmed green beans. Boil, covered for 8-10 minutes until tender, drain immediately and rinse with cold water to stop the cooking process.
- Steaming: Using a steamer basket, set the green beans over steaming water and steam, covered, for 8-10 minutes until tender. Rinse in cold water to stop cooking process
- Roasting: Toss trimmed green beans in a heat safe fat and sea salt to coat evenly. Roast in a 400 degree oven for about 20-25 minutes, turning once half way through cooking.
More Fresh Green Bean Recipes:
- Smoked Turkey Salad makes a great portable and on the go lunch! Fresh and vibrant flavors, Whole30 and keto!
- Everything Bagel Green Beans Almondine
- Worcestershire Green Beans look tasty!
- Balsamic Roasted Green Beans a classic prep!
Best Fresh Green Bean Recipe:
If you try this recipe, I want to hear about it! Please leave a comment below!
Tender Green Beans w/ Cherry Tomatoes
Ingredients
- 1 pound green beans washed and snapped (tips and stems removed)
- 1 cup halved cherry tomatoes or more to taste
- 3 tablespoons ghee or allowed butter
- 3 tablespoons fresh basil chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
- 2 drops liquid stevia OR 1 teaspoon honey or sugar
Instructions
- Steam your green beans until crisp tender, about 8-10 minutes.
- In a pan over medium heat, melt your ghee.
- Add in the tomatoes, basil, salt, and stevia.
- Saute gently for about a minute or two to release the tomato juices.
- Remove from the heat, and toss with the steamed green beans.
- Taste, and add more garlic salt to taste if necessary.
Nutrition
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Making this out of season and have no fresh basil. Suggestion for a substitute?
I use dried basil in a pinch! 1/2 – 1 teaspoon
This is such a perfect summery side dish, and I just happen to have everything I need to make it!
Garden fresh! These sound delish! Thanks for linking up at our Gluten Free Fridays party! I have tweeted and pinned your entry to our Gluten Free Fridays board on Pinterest! π
Hope your week is great!
Cindy from vegetarianmamma.com
I’m always looking for new ways to fix green beans, and since I just got some from the farmers’ market, this is perfect timing! Thanks for linking up to Healthy 2Day Wednesday!
This sounds so incredibly good! Wonderfully, I have all three main ingredients growing in my garden…I’ll just have to wait a bit longer π
I love garden green beans & mine are just now producing enough to harvest for meals. I’ll have to give this recipe a try, it sounds delicious. Thanks for sharing! (Visiting from Natural Living Monday)
~Taylor-Made Ranch~
Wolfe City, Texas
These look incredible! A great way to use up fresh garden veggies! Yum. I am definitely making these soon.
Thanks for sharing on Natural Living Monday!
Thank you for your submission on Nourishing Treasures’ Make Your Own! Monday link-up.
Check back later tonight when the new link-up is running to see if you were one of the top 3 featured posts! π
Congratulations!
Your recipe is featured on Full Plate Thursday this week. Hope you have a great summer week end and enjoy your new Red Plate.
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Miz Helen
Made this tonight! A great flavor combo and a nice change from our usual green bean dish. Had friends over too. Loved by everyone! Thanks for another keeper recipe!
Alright Kristy, so glad you liked it. Jazzing up the same old veg is always nice, so easy to get stuck in ruts!
Hi Tessa,
We just love fresh veggies and this looks delicious. Your recipe looks awesome! Hope you have a great week end and thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
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Miz Helen
I love green beans too, and cherry tomatoes, so this is the dish for me! I like the garlic and basil you have included too. What a lovely seasonal side dish!
Green beans say summertime goodness! Lovely recipe, Tessa!
xo,
Shirley
Those colours look so inviting. Found you via Beyond the Peel’s Keep it Real Thursday. I linked in bacon and scrambled egg rolls. Have a super week.
I love fresh in season food and you don’t get more local than your back yard – how blessed are you! I received green beans in my CSA bag yesterday and am headed to an Amish farm for the basil and tomatoes so we can enjoy this for dinner tonight! (I pinned this!)
Don’t be TOO jealous Christy, I have a postage stamp of a lot, but I maximize it to the fullest!! And beans climb, so they don;t take up too much square footage! Aren;t we lucky to have CSA, farmer’s markets at our access now? I just love them too! Please let me know if get to make them tonight!
I have tons of cherry tomatoes and will have beans soon so this recipe is perfect! I am pinning it π
Thanks a lot for the recipe. Its easy yet very healthy. Sounds tasty too. Surely going to try this out.
I would love it, if you would share this, & any other recipes you may have, on my recipe link up. http://goodrecipesonline.com/organized-linkup-for-all-your-recipes-goodrecipesonline-com/.
What a fun combo of flavors and I’m sure to love this too!
Looks Delicious! I’m printing it off right now π
My favorite too Tessa. We all love them actually. Great recipe! I’m always looking for more ways to use green beans. I also steam them before hand. They are just too tough if I only saute or roast (in my opinion). π
Your Tender Green Beans w/ Cherry Tomatoes & Basil recipe looks amazing. I come from a family of Diabetics so Liquid Stevia is a household word at our family. We are having a family gathering this month and this recipe will be my contribution. I will be sure to tell then where I found your recipe. Thank you!
Thanks for stopping by Liquid Stevia Lover, that could be MY name too!! I use it in everything now!