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How to prepare green beans

✅ The essentials

Green beans get topped and tailed, cook six to eight minutes in boiling salted water, and go through cold water to stay green and crisp. Then a turn in the pan with butter or a vinaigrette.

🛒 Choosing it

Thin, firm, snapping when you bend them. They must snap.

🧼 Preparing it

Snap or cut both ends. Wash them. The thick strings come away when you snap the end and pull.

🔪 Cutting it for the dish

  • Whole, boiled or steamed.
  • In pieces, for a salad or a stir-fry.

⏱️ How long it takes

Five minutes for 500 g, it is the longest move on this list.

🧊 Storing it

In the fridge, three to four days. Frozen, they are very good: straight into boiling water without thawing.

🍽️ Make it tonight

The page "How to boil and steam vegetables": green beans, seven minutes, then cold water.

Recipes that use it

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18 min

Green beans in vinaigrette

Very easy

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