These Haricot Verts are sauteed and tossed with crispy cooked bacon and buttery breadcrumbs. These tasty beans are one of my favorite green bean recipes, are easy to make and is perfect for holidays, special occasions, or for dinner tonight!
❤️ Why you'll love it
Easy side dish: sautéed green beans make a great side dish for your next holiday meal.
Quick, simple recipe: this recipe uses simple ingredients with basic steps, and is ready in just 12 minutes.
Not your traditional green beans: this recipe for Haricots verts are a step up from your tradition green beans.
🥘 Ingredients
Haricots Verts: these are a long green bean, also known as simple french green beans and be found in the grocery store in the fresh produce section. Regular green beans can be used if you can't find Haricots Verts.
Unsalted butter: used to saute and add flavor
Shallot: these are similar to an onion but with a bolder flavor and are smaller.
Sturdy bread crumbs: use a firm bread such as ciabatta or a day old sweet dinner roll.
Thick cut bacon: use pre-cooked bacon that is cooked until crisp.
Salt and black pepper to taste
Lemons
🔪 Instructions
- Rinse green beans and pat dry with paper towels to absorb any moisture remaining.
- In a large skillet, melt tablespoon butter over medium heat until bubbly. Add shallots and saute for 1 minute, stirring frequently
- Add string beans and saute for 7 minutes or until a fork easily pierces the bean.
- While beans are sauteing, add remaining butter to small skillet and melt over medium heat until bubbly. And breadcrumbs and toss to coat, cooking until lightly browned and crispy, stirring often. Remove from heat.
- Add breadcrumbs and bacon to green beans in skillet and stir to combine. Garnish with a squeeze of lemon juice if desired.
🥄 Equipment
Large skillet
Flat head wooden spoon
🥫Storage
Refrigerate: store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge up to 4 days.
📖 Variations
- Great additions to these beans would be diced red peppers, red onions, or toasted almonds.
- Substitute ½ small onion and 2 cloves garlic for the shallot.
- Top finished dish with ¼ cup crumbled feta cheese or goat cheese.
- Add ½ - 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper for a little bit of spice.
💭 Tips
- Beans are done when they are vibrant green and can easily be pierced with a fork.
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🍽 Serve with...
Serve as a side dish to air fryer pork chops.
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📖 Recipe
Sauteed Haricots Verts
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Ingredients
- 12 ounces fresh Haricots Verts , rinsed
- 2 tablespoons butter , divided
- 1 small shallot , chopped
- ½ cup bread crumbs
- 2 slices thick cut bacon , cooked until crisp and crumbled
- salt , to taste
- black pepper , to taste
Instructions
- Rinse green beans and pat dry with paper towels to absorb any moisture remaining.
- In a large skillet, melt tablespoon butter over medium heat until bubbly. Add shallots and saute for 1 minute, stirring frequently.
- Add string beans and saute for 7 minutes or until a fork easily pierces the bean.
- While beans are sauteing, add remaining butter to small skillet and melt over medium heat until bubbly. And breadcrumbs and toss to coat, cooking until lightly browned and crispy, stirring often. Remove from heat.
- Add breadcrumbs and bacon to green beans in skillet and stir to combine. Garnish with a squeeze of lemon juice if desired.
Mignone Claudia says
What bacon you suggest to use back or streaky bacon?
Shelby Law Ruttan says
I would say streaky bacon is the closest to what I use here in the US, but you can use whatever you like.
bellini says
Everything is better with bacon Shelby and when I think of how breadcrumbs elevate a simple pasta dish, I'm in. Thanks for bringing it to the table.