Asparagus beans bush cooking recipes. Recipe in a slow cooker

Frozen green beans are used both as a side dish and as an independent dish. Ready beans perfectly harmonize in taste with meat, poultry or fish. In 20 minutes, you can cook a lean and hearty meal at home.

Classic side dish recipe

Boiled green beans are one of the easiest side dishes for the second, salad or soup. Does not contain fat and has beneficial properties for digestion.

Ingredients:

green beans - 400 g;
garlic - 2 cloves;
olive oil - 3 tbsp. l.;
ground pepper - a pinch;
salt - ½ tbsp. l.;
water.

How to cook:

Pour water into a wide enamel pan and place on the stove.
While the water is boiling, take out the frozen beans, transfer to a colander, pour over with boiling water and drain the liquid.
If the pods are too large, cut into smaller pieces.
Salt the boiling water, put the main ingredient and boil for 5 minutes. Then remove the pods from the water and fry over medium heat for 3 minutes.
Add minced garlic, pepper and oil.
Cover the finished side dish with a lid and leave to simmer for 5 minutes.

Video recipe

The advantage of the classic recipe is that it does not require defrosting. Thanks to salt water, all vitamins and nutrients will be preserved in the pods.

Cooking in a pan with an egg

Ready-made bean stew with eggs is very juicy. The composition contains the optimal amount of protein for a complete breakfast.

Ingredients:

green beans - 500 g;
chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
onion - 1 pc.;
vegetable oil - ½ tsp;
salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking:

Rinse the beans with water and cut into pieces. The smaller the size, the faster the dish will cook. Peel the onion and chop for frying.
Prepare a frying pan for stewing: put on fire, grease with oil.
Fry the onion until golden brown, put the pods and pour water so that the liquid does not cover them completely.
Add salt, ground pepper and stir.
Simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. After pour in the beaten eggs and cook for another 10 minutes over low heat.

By the time the eggs are added, the water should have evaporated. If the beans are still tough, add a little water and cook until soft. So that the dish does not boil to a mushy mass and the pods remain intact, drain the excess water and put the pan on low heat.

How to cook string beans in the oven

For cooking in the oven, frozen green beans are used, which do not require additional processing. Prepackaged bags from the store contain already peeled and sorted vegetables.

Ingredients:

green beans - 1 kg;
water - 2 l;
butter - 70 g;
flour - 50 g;
milk - 1 l;
hard cheese - 100 g;
salt - 1 tbsp. l.;
lemon zest - 1 tbsp. l.

Cooking:

Pour water into a saucepan and put on fire. When it boils, salt and add the pods. After 5 minutes, drain the liquid and put the boiled pods on a baking dish, greased with butter (20 g).
Preheat oven to 200°C.
Soften the butter in a saucepan, add flour and mix. Then add milk, zest and grated cheese. When the liquid thickens slightly, mix with the beans and place in the oven.
After 15 minutes, the dish is ready.

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If there was no lemon zest, it will be replaced by lemon juice in the same amount. To serve, put a portion of the dish on each plate, sprinkle breadcrumbs on top and sprinkle with lemon juice.

Recipe in a slow cooker

The recipe is similar to stewed beans, but it helps to reduce the time of direct participation in the kitchen several times.

Ingredients:

green beans - 400 g;
carrots - 2 pcs.;
onion - 1 pc.;
tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l.;
vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l.;
bay leaf - 1 pc.;
coriander - ½ tsp;
salt - 1 tsp

Cooking:

Cut the beans into pieces, chop the carrots on a coarse grater, and finely chop the onion.
Mix all ingredients in a bowl, except for the tomato paste.
Put to simmer for 30 minutes. 10 minutes before readiness, add tomato paste and mix.

Cooking in a slow cooker is a diet option that is suitable even for those who are on a diet and want to lose weight. For lovers of recipes rich in fats, you can additionally fry onions and carrots before adding them in the "Frying" or "Baking" mode.

The shelf life of frozen green beans is 6 months. When used after this time, the product loses its beneficial properties and will cause the opposite effect.

Green beans contain a lot of vitamins and microelements that have a positive effect on the human nervous and digestive systems.
You should not use it in unlimited quantities, especially for the elderly, and those who suffer from gastrointestinal diseases (gastritis, ulcers).
During cooking, you need to drain the first water so that after eating, the beans do not cause gas formation.

Frozen green beans have unique properties - they retain more nutrients than fresh ones. In addition, the pods are not affected by toxins and fumes from the environment. It is a low-calorie and dietary food product, from which it is easy to prepare side dishes, salads and festive dishes.

Culinary Etude 26.07.2018

String beans, so popular and beloved in the cuisines of southern and eastern peoples, are often ignored by our housewives. And absolutely in vain! Dishes from it differ in excellent taste and tenderness. In addition, they are very useful. You just need to figure out how to cook green beans tasty and fast.

The calorie content of green beans is low. In steamed or boiled - only about 32 kcal per 100 grams of product. If you eat it in this form, then it is quite suitable for the nutrition of those who follow a diet for weight loss.

About how and what to cook from fresh green beans, Irina Rybchanskaya, well-known to blog readers, will tell us now, as a constant leader of the heading I give the floor to Irina.

Hello dear readers of Irina Zaitseva's blog! I'm sure there are many vegetable lovers among you. Therefore, it is with special pleasure that I present to you today my favorite - green beans in the best possible light.

For cooking, we need asparagus beans. How is it different from just a string? In short, asparagus is grown exclusively for green young juicy pods, and not for peeling grain. Today in the world there are a huge variety of varieties of such a vegetable crop.

At the break, asparagus beans are most often round in cross section, and its juicy pulp resembles a thick jelly. In order to check the quality of a vegetable, take and break the pod with your fingers. If this is easy to do and a characteristic ringing crack is heard in the process, then this indicates that our choice is correct.

How to cook fresh green beans tasty and fast

Our today's heroine is cooked in just a few minutes. After cooking, you can cook dishes very quickly and tasty from it, both for an ordinary everyday breakfast and for a festive table.

Heat treatment has a rather gentle effect on the nutritional properties of the product. After it, approximately 80% of vitamins are preserved.

A few cooking secrets

Before cooking, rinse the raw materials, remove the “noses” and “tails”.
If there are hard side fibers, then they must also be removed.
Cut or break the pods into pieces, 3-5 cm in size.
The prepared product should be put in water brought to a boil, which can be lightly salted.
The cooking process should be short - only seven to ten minutes.
Be careful not to burn yourself, try the pods. If they are already soft, but still retain some elasticity and "resistance to the teeth", then the fire should be turned off.
Boiled pieces should be immediately placed in ice water, and then dried on a clean towel. This procedure will help maintain a bright color and crispy structure.
Put young green beans in vegetable soup, taking into account the cooking time of all other vegetables.

What can be cooked from fresh green beans

Fresh green string beans are used to prepare such dishes:

Soups are clear and filling.
Meals "in one pot" (such as chanakhi or Hungarian goulash).
Side dishes.
Dressings for risotto or pasta.
Hot appetizers (lobio, beans with fried egg, bean julienne).
Cold appetizers (lobio, salads, sandwiches, bruschettas, crostini).
Casseroles.

Below I will present a few recipes from some of the above groups.

Soup with fresh green beans and mushrooms

Light, dietary soup, the taste of which can be varied by adding certain vegetables.

Ingredients

One chicken breast (400 - 450 g);
1.5 liters of water;
350 g fresh green beans;
6 brussels sprouts;
two small young potatoes;
6 small champignons;
half a green sweet pepper;
small bulb;
small carrots;
ground black pepper;
salt.

How to cook

Wash the breast, dry it, put it in a saucepan with cold water, heat until foam appears.
Carefully remove the foam that appears, add the onion. Reduce the heat to minimum, cook for twenty minutes, remove the onion.
Pull out the meat, disassemble into fibers.
Wash the green beans, cut into pieces of 4-5 cm.
Wash potatoes, peel, cut into cubes.
Rinse the Brussels sprouts.
Bulgarian pepper cut in half, chop.
Peel the mushrooms from the film, cut into slices.
Peel clean carrots, cut into cubes or strips.
First put potatoes and carrots in the broth, after a couple of minutes you should put the remaining vegetables and mushrooms. Cook on a low flame of the stove, salt during cooking. At the end of the cooking process, season with salt, add ground black pepper.
First put chicken meat in a plate, then pour soup over it.

Fresh green beans for a festive side dish

I suggest watching a great video on how to cook fresh green beans with parmesan for a festive side dish.

Stew with fresh green beans in a pot

Ingredients

One kilogram of beef or pork;
300 g of green beans;
two large young eggplants;
two tablespoons of olive oil;
two tablespoons of butter;
two large onions;
one large bright sweet carrot;
three cloves of garlic;
ground black pepper;
fresh cilantro, parsley;
boiling water or broth;
salt.

How to cook

Wash the meat, drain, cut into cubes, brown in half of the warmed butter and olive oil until a beautiful caramel color.
On the other half of the oil mixture, brown half rings or onion cubes, carrot sticks, large eggplant cubes.
Rinse the string beans, cut off the "tail", cut into pieces 5-6 cm long.
Put onion with vegetables on the bottom of the pot, put peeled and crushed garlic cloves, fried meat, green beans on them.
Pour salt, pepper, put chopped cilantro, parsley.
Pour boiling water or broth so that the liquid slightly covers the contents of the pot. Lightly stir all the ingredients with a wooden spoon.
Simmer on the smallest fire for an hour and a half.

My remarks

If desired, you can add Bulgarian, hot peppers and chopped tomatoes to the composition of the ingredients.

The most tender asparagus beans of sugar varieties make an excellent hot holiday appetizer that tastes like mushroom julienne. How to cook everything? For clarity, my step-by-step recipe with photos.

Ingredients

One kilogram of green beans;
half a liter of heavy cream (33 - 35%);
one tablespoon of flour;
one large onion;
half a small pod of hot pepper (optional);
half a tablespoon of excellent quality butter;
salt.

How to cook

Rinse string beans.

Break into pieces 4 - 5 cm long. Boil at a minimum boil for 6 - 10 minutes. You can send the boiled green beans to cold water to keep the bright green color. This time I didn't do that.

Chop the peeled onion into cubes, fry it on a small flame until transparent.

Add beans, stir. In a separate bowl, mix the cream with a tablespoon of flour until smooth. Pour the mixture into the pan, mix the contents, cook for five minutes over low heat, season with salt, add finely chopped hot pepper.

Ready dish in a frying pan.

What a beauty it turned out when serving.

Georgian green bean lobio

The season for fresh asparagus is short. But, how delightful it is in its summer luxurious primordial freshness! Hurry up to cook green lobio - an incomparable dish of Georgian cuisine, equally excellent both warm and cold.

But there is nothing tastier on a summer evening than a misted glass of light white wine, a piece and Georgian lobio! They eat it not just to get enough, but for enjoyment and a pleasant pastime.

Here is one of the recipes on how to cook green beans in a frying pan very tasty.

Ingredients

Half a kilo of fresh tender string beans without fibers;
250 g of onions;
200 g of good summer juicy tomatoes;
one green sweet pepper;
a small pod of hot pepper (optional);
one - two cloves of garlic;
50 ml of high-quality vegetable oil;
80 - 100 g fresh cilantro;
a large pinch of fresh parsley leaves, savory, purple basil;
a little wine vinegar or lemon juice;
a pinch of Imereti saffron (optional);
ground black pepper, coriander;
salt.

How to cook

Prepare and boil the beans as above.
While it is cooking, remove the husk from the onion, chop into half rings, brown until transparent in hot vegetable oil.
Add thinly sliced carrots, after a minute send bell peppers cut into thin julienne into the pan. Cook for three minutes on a medium intensity flame.
Cut clean tomatoes into cubes. Washed, drained greens (except cilantro) chop. Send tomatoes and herbs to roasted vegetables. Cook until most of the tomato juice has evaporated.
Grind chopped cilantro with salt, pepper and coriander, send to the rest of the ingredients, mix, add boiled green beans. Simmer everything together for five to seven minutes.
Add finely chopped hot pepper, Imeretian saffron, if you cook with them, mix. Season with wine vinegar or lemon juice to taste.
Lobio will become even tastier if it is infused within ten minutes after being ready.

My remarks

Cold lobio on the second day after cooking is wonderful, like the many-voiced Georgian song “a capella”.
To prepare for the winter, fill sterile lobio jars. Sterilize one liter jars for sixty minutes. Close with boiled lids, refrigerate by placing on the lid, without wrapping.

Azerbaijani fresh green beans with egg

String beans are loved by all the peoples of the Caucasus. In Azerbaijan, it is treated almost with trepidation. For its preparation, fresh or melted butter is most often used. This gives the dish a special, characteristic "nutty" taste and aroma.

Ingredients

One kilogram of fresh green asparagus beans;
400 g of onions;
three cloves of garlic;
one large green pepper;
a small pod of hot pepper (optional);
six chicken eggs;
60 g fresh butter or 50 g ghee;
ground black pepper;
a small pinch of turmeric;
cilantro, parsley, savory, basil;
salt.

How to cook

Boil the green beans for six to eight minutes, fish out with a sieve and place in very cold water.
Cut the peeled onion into thin half rings. Also chop the green peppers, peeled from the middle.
Crush the garlic freed from the husk on a plank, crushing it with a knife blade laid flat.
Melt the butter, wait until it stops foaming and a characteristic “nutty” aroma appears. If you are cooking with ghee, just melt it.
Put the onion, fry it on a small flame. The indicator of readiness is golden color. Add turmeric, stir.
Add garlic, green pepper, mix, cook together for two minutes, send them to the company with towel-dried green beans.
Shake the eggs, send chopped greens, strips of hot pepper, ground black pepper to them.
Pour the beans with a mixture of eggs and herbs, stir, sprinkle with salt. The eggs will curdle after a while. A wonderful Azerbaijani dish is ready!

Dear readers of Irochka Zaitseva's blog! I will be glad if my short article on how and what you can cook from fresh green beans will help you choose the recipes that you like. If you have any questions, I will definitely answer them in the comments.

With sincere and sincere wishes for health and all the best, Irina Rybchanskaya blog author Essay of a culinary amateur.

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Preparation of string (asparagus) beans

There are many ways to cook string (asparagus) beans. It can be boiled, fried, baked and even marinated.

How much to take green beans for cooking?

Before you cook a delicious dish of asparagus beans, you need to decide how much to take green beans for cooking?

To prepare green beans as a side dish, start with an average serving per person, which is 150-200 grams.

Of course, everyone's consumption rates are different, and you can easily increase the serving, taking into account your own preferences and appetite.

Dishes from green (asparagus) beans. Recipes with photos

Now directly about how delicious to cook asparagus beans. What photo recipes for dishes from green (asparagus) beans do I offer?

Asparagus beans boiled

I suggest the easiest and fastest way to cook asparagus beans is to boil them in salted water.

To do this, the pods of asparagus beans are sorted out, removing badly spoiled or blackened ones. Remove leaves and stems. If the bean pods are too long, they can be cut into several pieces.

To prepare boiled asparagus beans, pour water into a saucepan and put on fire.

It is better if the pan is not aluminum, as this cookware is prone to oxidation. Use for cooking green beans, and other food, stainless steel or enameled dishes. This container is more suitable for food products.

How to boil string beans

Before boiling green beans, pour more than half of the water into the pan, add salt to taste.

Raw green beans are light and will float to the surface at first. After boiling, cook green beans for 3-5 minutes. After that, put the boiled asparagus beans in a colander and let the water drain.

I think a dish like boiled green beans does not require a photo for the recipe. Everything is extremely simple, the main thing is not to digest the beans. Ready boiled green beans look like shown in the photo.

Boiled asparagus beans will be an excellent side dish for meat and fish. It can also be an excellent base for vegetable dishes.

Boiled green beans can be fried, marinated and, if desired, added to a vegetable salad.

The only thing you should not do is to eat green beans in their raw form, because it contains substances harmful to the human body.

Soup with green beans. Recipe with photo

A light vegetable soup is a great start to the day. Therefore, if you cook soup from asparagus beans - tasty, low-calorie, but nutritious at the same time - it will appeal to both those who follow their figure and those who prefer a healthy diet.

To prepare 2 liters of soup with asparagus beans according to my recipe with a photo, you will need:

Potatoes - 4 pcs.;
Asparagus beans - 100-150 gr.;
Carrots (medium) - 1 pc.;
Onion - 1 pc.;
Tomato - 1-2 pcs. (depending on size);
parsley or dill;
Vegetable oil;
butter (optional);
Salt, spices to taste.

Recipe for the soup with asparagus beans:

Pour about two liters of water into a saucepan, put on fire and bring to a boil.

Meanwhile, peel the potatoes, onions and carrots. Cut the potatoes into small cubes, dip in boiling water and salt.

While the potatoes are cooking, prepare the dressing. To do this, grate the carrots, and cut the onion into cubes.

Pour a small amount of vegetable oil into a preheated pan and simmer the carrots and onions over low heat. Vegetables should not be fried, but sweat a little until golden brown.

Add finely chopped tomato to the pan and sauté a little. For a deeper and more delicate taste, you can add a small piece of butter to the dressing.

Ready-made vegetable soup with asparagus beans in a saucepan

Asparagus beans are a delicate product, so it does not need to be cooked for a long time. When the potatoes are almost ready, you can add green beans to the soup.

Before this, rinse the pods and remove the leaves. Cut the beans into small pieces, and they will cook in the soup in just a few minutes.

After adding the beans, add the dressing and bring the soup to taste.

A dish like asparagus soup will taste better if you add ground coriander, bay leaf and sweet peas to it.

Rinse parsley or dill and finely chop. When all the ingredients for the vegetable soup with asparagus are ready, add the herbs and remove from heat.

Tender green leaves do not need to be boiled - this way they retain more nutrients and aroma.

And now, vegetable soup with asparagus beans is ready! The recipe, as you can see, is simple.

Roasted string beans recipe

Green beans can be a great main dish. Delicious and at the same time light, vegetarian.

To prepare fried asparagus beans according to my recipe, you need the following products:

- boiled asparagus beans;

- ground black pepper;

- coriander;

- vegetable oil.

To prepare fried green beans with spices, boil green bean pods according to the above recipe. Drain in a colander and let excess water drain.

Pour vegetable oil into a heated frying pan. Put the asparagus beans in the pan, add salt and sprinkle with your favorite spices.

I usually use black pepper and coriander for this purpose, and French herbs are also very harmoniously combined with green beans. If you have your favorite seasonings, use them.

Since the asparagus beans are no longer raw, if desired, they can only be simmered a little over medium heat, or you can make them hotter.

To what extent and for how long to heat-treat asparagus beans, each housewife decides for herself.

I like to fry until a delicious golden crust forms, as you can see in the photo for the recipe for fried green beans.

String beans baked with egg

For people who prefer to eat less fried foods, my recipe for green beans baked with egg is perfect.

This dish is not as spicy and spicy as fried green beans. So, how to cook asparagus beans deliciously so that the dish is dietary?

To prepare green beans baked with an egg, take:

- Boiled asparagus beans;

- Chicken egg - 2 pcs.;

- Vegetable oil.

Boil green beans according to the recipe above.

On a greased baking sheet or deep frying pan, pour the boiled beans, salt and pepper to taste.

Beat the eggs with a whisk and pour them over the beans.

Place the skillet in the preheated oven for 5-10 minutes.

If there is no desire to bother with the oven, do the same manipulations on the stove.

Pour the boiled beans into a preheated oiled frying pan and pour over the pre-beaten egg.

Cover the pan with a lid and cook over low heat until cooked through.

When making green beans baked with egg, you can leave them to bake as a whole pancake, or you can make them crumbly by stirring during baking or frying (as seen in the recipe photo).

Of course, these are not all recipes for preparing the simplest and, nevertheless, delicious dishes based on asparagus beans. But taking them as a basis, you can add mayonnaise, tomato, garlic, boiled meat and any herbs, creating more and more new culinary masterpieces.

The main thing is to know the basics of cooking asparagus (green beans), and how to cook it deliciously, my recipes with photos and your imagination will tell you! Healthy and easy-to-cook asparagus dishes will allow you to feed your family with delicious and healthy food. Bon appetit!

I remind you of my other recipes that I shared in previous articles. This is both, and, and more high-calorie food. For example, you can find out or . And, of course, do not forget about the preparations for the winter - or.

Green beans are rich in various vitamins, such as vitamin A, C, E, B, in addition, they have a huge amount of minerals (such as magnesium, folic acid, calcium, chromium and iron). Very often, asparagus beans are recommended during diets, because due to the high fiber content in this bean, the work of the gastrointestinal tract improves, toxins are removed from the body.

In this article, we want to present you with different recipes for cooking asparagus beans. All of them are not particularly complicated and even a novice hostess can do it, however, after spending a little time, you will get a tasty and healthy dish.

Asparagus beans - a recipe for making salad from asparagus beans with potatoes

Boil potatoes in their skins. Clean and cut into cubes. Rinse the asparagus beans, cut off the ends. Dip in boiling water, add a little salt and sugar. Boil for 15 minutes. Cut boiled green beans into pieces. Combine all the ingredients in a salad bowl according to the recipe, season with mayonnaise.

You can simply boiled asparagus beans mixed with chopped onion vinegar. Get a light diet meal. So that the asparagus beans do not lose their green saturated color, after cooking it must be dipped in ice water for several minutes. It can be combined with cheese, mushrooms, meat, and other vegetables.