What do you do when you have an over-abundance of beautiful yellow and green beans from your local farmers market? When you’ve already made one of your latest salad obsession twice in a week; when you’re not in the mood to look up fancy recipes; when you really want to eat your veggies but what you’re really craving for are some salty fries?
Why, you make Green Bean Fries, of course.
Well technically, you make Yellow and Green Bean Fries.
During my weekly visit at the Charles Square Farmers Market, I bought a bunch of these pretty yellow and green beans from Kimball Fruit Stand. Last night, as I was settling down to catch up on all my DVR shows, I started craving for some easy-to-nibble finger foods. But I was also craving for something healthy, especially after all the chocolate I’ve been eating. Finger food that’s healthy? That’s when inspiration came to me: why not make some roasted vegetable fries?? It was rainy and cold anyway, the perfect night for some roasted veggie action. Visions of crispy, roasted green beans started dancing in my head.
I immediately got to work:
prep your beans: rinse, then cut the ends off
toss the yellow and green beans with some olive oil, salt, pepper and chili flakes
roast at 450 degrees for about 40 minutes, until brown and crispy
How easy was that? Now, ladies and gentlemen, this is when a flash of brilliance hit me. I just made green bean fries – and in all honesty, I don’t even like french fries that much. But trufle fries? That’s another story. It’s hard for me to say no to those. And I remembered the little jars of truffle butter that I smuggled from bought in Tuscany…. So I shaved some delicate curls of truffle butter (just a little tiny bit, that’s all you need because the truffle flavor is so strong) and tada! I had Healthy Trufle Fries:
oh yeah
I dipped these in ketchup mixed with Sriracha. Then I had fries for dinner. If you haven’t tried roasted green beans yet, you should. Soon.
This post is for the Loving Local Blogathon at Our Grandmother’s Kitchen. Living Local is celebrating the flavors of Massachusetts and is a fundraiser for Mass Farmers Markets.
What’s an easy meal you pieced together from your farmers market finds?
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I never would’ve thought of this. It sounds delicious!
Very inventive. My husband adds spice to his ketchup too – either sriracha or tabasco. It’s a bit of a rude awakening when dip my food in his ketchup – but it is tasty!
Green bean fries? This sounds really cool! I like to make a sriracha “mayo” using Greek yogurt and Sriracha – so good!
Great ideas here I am keen to try them!
This is genius! I love green beans, but my boyfriend won’t touch them. Maybe he will if I call them fries…. Sounds so delicious!
Oh, I’ve been wanting to make these forever! They look so amazing! And why have I never thought of adding sriracha to my ketchup?! Brilliant!
I don’t think I have ever roasted beans before, but these look amazing. It’s always great to find delicious, fun new ways to prepare veggies!
That looks awesome. I always simmer green and yellow beans in milk and then load them with black pepper — I may have to be more adventurous!
I never would have thought of this – but it just so happens I have a LOT of green and yellow beans. Unfortunately no truffles in any form, but I am going to give this a try sans truffles. This very night. Love your blog!
Anything “fry” ed is OK by me! What a great idea – I can’t wait to give it a try!
These look amazing! Especially with that Tuscan truffle butter – great smuggle in from Italy!
How have you eaten every dessert at Woodward?! Do you hang out their a lot? I will def. have to try your drink recommendation!
Healthy truffle fries — love it! This is such a great idea. Love how creative we all get with abundance of veggies we find at our local farmers’ markets!
my mouth is SERIOUSLY watering over here! i need to make these this week…no question!
oh yeah is right! healthy and truffle sound so good together
hehe
How creative! I’ve never thought of this before, but it looks delicious!
I had green bean fries for dinner on Wednesday, and am doing so again tonight. But I am trying your olive oil and chili flakes this time… was using garlic salt before. Thanks for the idea! And yes… ketchup and mustard and siracha for dipping. All three.
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