Roasted Sesame Green Beans

Name: Roasted Sesame Green Beans
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1/2 teaspoon, toasted sesame oil; 2 teaspoons, honey; 1/4 teaspoon, hot red pepper flakes; 3 medium cloves, garlic, minced (about 1 tablespoon); 1 teaspoon, minced fresh ginger; 1 pound, green beans, stem ends snapped off; 1 tablespoon, olive oil; , Table salt; 4 teaspoons, sesame seeds (toasted)

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2005, America's Test Kitchen TV

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Is it possible to breathe new life into over-the-hill supermarket green beans?

SERVES4

TIME55 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

In search of a green bean recipe that would breathe life into out-of-season vegetables, we discovered that roasting in a 450-degree oven with only oil, salt, and pepper transformed aged specimens into deeply caramelized, full-flavored beans...

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