Healthy Green Bean Casserole From Scratch

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Inexperienced bean casserole might be my favourite Thanksgiving dinner dish of all time. Sadly, cream-of-mystery-franken-foods-soup will not be wholesome. Neither are the french-fried onions that usually grace the highest of this casserole. (Observe: actual onions don’t flip crispy when fried by themselves … I attempted … they burn)

This was one in every of my most requested recipes, and I’m joyful to share the wholesome model. I feel I really favor this one to the processed model, although it’s been so lengthy that I don’t utterly bear in mind how that one tasted. Both approach, this one is sweet! It’s additionally freed from thriller components!

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The Greatest Inexperienced Bean Casserole Recipe

The basic inexperienced bean casserole options Campbell’s canned soup and mushy canned inexperienced beans. Then the entire thing is topped off with crispy fried onions. Some standard fried onions in a can surprisingly have pretty respectable components, however most nonetheless have all-purpose flour in order that they aren’t gluten-free. Making inexperienced bean casserole from scratch isn’t simply more healthy, but it surely tastes so a lot better!

It’s a little time-intensive to make, however is well worth the effort. You possibly can even make it forward of time to make prep time sooner on Thanksgiving. See the instructions under the recipe to make this veggie casserole dish forward.

Prepping the Inexperienced Beans

You need to use the everyday canned inexperienced beans on this recipe, however I actually favor recent. They’ll take eternally to prepare dinner within the oven in the event that they aren’t precooked although and by then the onion topping shall be burnt. I’ve discovered that the best approach is to frivolously steam them earlier than I add the mushroom sauce.

Another choice some individuals like is to blanch the inexperienced beans in a big pot of boiling water after which put them in ice water in a big bowl.

Should you can’t discover recent inexperienced beans frozen may also work. Calmly prepare dinner them after which drain earlier than including the mushroom sauce.