Tag: beans

This easy Green Bean recipe could be a treat if you like eating green beans. These beans sautéed in butter and maple syrup are tender, sweet and delicious.

What are green beans?  From Wikipedia:

Green beans are the unripe, young fruit and protective pods of various cultivars of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).  Immature or young pods of the runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus), yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis), and hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus) are used in a similar way.

Green beans are known by many common names, including French beans, string beans, snap beans, and snaps.

They are distinguished from the many differing varieties of beans in that green beans are harvested and consumed with their enclosing pods, typically before the seeds inside have fully matured.

This practice is analogous to the harvesting of unripened pea pods as snow peas or sugar snap peas.

The photo above are of whole green beans packed for sale (photo from Wikipedia).

What is maple syrup?  From Wikipedia:

Maple syrup is a syrup usually made from the xylem sap of sugar maple, red maple, or black maple trees, although it can also be made from other maple species.

In cold climates, these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before the winter; the starch is then converted to sugar that rises in the sap in late winter and early spring.

Maple trees are tapped by drilling holes into their trunks and collecting the exuded sap, which is processed by heating to evaporate much of the water, leaving the concentrated syrup.

This easy Green Bean recipe only takes a few minutes to prepare and is very tasty.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups green beans
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 3 tablespoons maple syrup
• Salt and pepper

Instructions:

1. Steam green beans until softened.
2. Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat.
3. Add the maple syrup and green beans saute for a few minutes.
4. Add salt and pepper to taste and serve.

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