Greek Green Beans

Greek Green Beans

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Ethnic green bean recipes.

I found this yummy and easy recipe for Greek green beans on a vegetarian cooking site www.all-creatures.org.

As mentioned on our home page, green bean have a world-wide appeal and every culture has adapted them with their own unique taste. Greek's prefer their green beans simmered until the beans are soft. They add onions, tomatoes, garlic and oregano.

Greek Green Beans

INGREDIENTS

* 3/4 cup olive oil
* 2 cups chopped onions
* 1 clove garlic, minced
* 2 pounds fresh green beans, rinsed and trimmed
* 3 large tomatoes, diced
* 2 teaspoons sugar
* 1 pinch salt to taste

DIRECTIONS

1. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir the onions and garlic in the skillet until tender.
2. Mix the green beans, tomatoes, sugar, and salt into the skillet. Reduce heat to low, and continue cooking 45 minutes, or until beans are soft.

Serves 6 - 8

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Greek Potatoes and Green Beans
Another winning recipe from www.all-creatures.org. Keeping in the Greek tradition the green beans are cooked with tomatoe and potatoes. According to my Greek friend Karen this is the way her mother would present this dish, but she says that she would consider adding some garlic and oregano to jazz it up a bit.

Fried green beans recipe, Deep fried green beans recipe
As with other recipes there are many variations of fried green beans. Actually the second one we've posted seems more like true fried green beans to us, but the first recipe works well too. If we use bacon fat in the first recipe we don't add the lemon juice/zest. Fried Green Beans 2 tablespoons olive oil (we prefer bacon fat for taste) 1 tablespoon butter 2 cups fresh green beans, trimmed and cut to preferred length.

Sweet & Sour Green Bean Recipe
This is a very tasty and very easy green bean recipe. When we make this dish we splurge and get thick sliced bacon from the deli counter. We also like the taste of red onions in this dish. Sweet and Sour Green Beans 1 pound trimmed green beans 4 pieces lean bacon 3 tablespoons chopped onion 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar 1 tablespoon sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt.