Green Beans Amandine

Name: Green Beans Amandine
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1/3 cup, sliced almonds; 3 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into pieces; 2 teaspoons, lemon juice; 2 pounds, green beans, stem ends trimmed; 1/2 cup, water; , Salt

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2008

This simple dish of green beans is tossed with toasted almonds and a light lemon-butter sauce.

SERVES8

TIME35 minutes

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

A simple dish of green beans tossed with toasted almonds and a light lemon-butter sauce, green beans amandine is refined yet not intimidating. Unfortunately, recipes too often yield limp beans swimming in pools of overly acidic sauce, with ...

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