Total Time: 45 min
Ingredients
* Alkali and pepper
* 3 pound(s) blooming beans, trimmed
* 2 tablespoon(s) margarine or butter
* 1 pound(s) shallots, agilely sliced
* 3 tablespoon(s) Dijon alacrity with seeds
Directions
1. In covered 5- to 6-quart saucepot, calefaction 3 quarts baptize and 1 teaspoon alkali to baking on high. Add blooming beans and cook, uncovered, 5 to 7 account or until tender-crisp. Drain. Plunge beans into ample basin abounding with ice baptize to arctic quickly. Drain well. If not continuing with compound appropriate away, abode well-drained beans in artificial accumulator accoutrements and air-condition until accessible to use.
2. In aforementioned saucepot, calefaction margarine on medium-low until melted. Add shallots; baker 17 to 20 account or until breakable and golden, active occasionally.
3. To admixture in saucepot, add blooming beans and 1/2 teaspoon anniversary alkali and afresh arena atramentous pepper; access calefaction to medium-high, and baker about 5 account best or until beans are acrimonious through, casting occasionally with tongs. Stir in mustard.
4. To accomplish Classic Blooming Beans with Hazelnuts and Brown Butter: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Toast hazelnuts: Abode 1 cup hazelnuts in 9" by 9" metal baking pan. Bake 10 account or until agilely browned and ambrosial and banknote activate to bark away. Wrap basics in apple-pie kitchen towel. Using towel, rub off as abundant of the banknote as accessible (all of the bark may not appear off). Coarsely chop nuts. Meanwhile, adapt blooming beans as aloft in footfall 1. In footfall 2, omit shallots and baker adulate on medium-low. Add hazelnuts and baker 3 to 4 account or until adulate is agilely browned, stirring. Complete compound as in footfall 3, but omit mustard.
Anniversary serving: About 145 calories, 4 g protein, 16 g carbohydrate, 3 g absolute fat (1 g saturated), 4 g fiber, 0 mg cholesterol, 185 mg sodium.
To accomplish Healthy Blooming Beans with Garlic: Adapt blooming beans as aloft in footfall 1. In footfall 2, omit shallots, and in abode of margarine, calefaction 1 tablespoon olive oil on high. Complete compound as in footfall 3, abacus 3 cloves garlic, cautiously chopped, afterwards beans are acrimonious through; omit mustard. Baker 1 minute best or until garlic is fragrant, tossing.
Anniversary serving: About 50 calories, 2 g protein, 9 g carbohydrate, 2 g absolute fat (0 g saturated), 4 g fiber, 0 mg cholesterol, 125 mg sodium.
