Skillet Green Beans and Pearl Onions

Name: Skillet Green Beans and Pearl Onions
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon, unsalted butter; 2 cups, frozen pearl onions (see note); 1 1/2 pounds, green beans, stem ends trimmed; 2 tablespoons, water; , Salt and pepper; 1 teaspoon, brown sugar; 1 teaspoon, minced fresh thyme

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2011

Side Dishes

Vegetables

Quick

We wanted crisp-tender beans and nicely browned onions--and we wanted them at the same time.

SERVES8

TIME35 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We used frozen pearl onions for our Skillet Green Beans and Pearl Onions instead of fresh to avoid the painstaking task of peeling them individually. Starting the onions several minutes before the beans released a lot of flavorful liquid, w...

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