Dinner · 12 min · Amounts not specified
Blistered green beans with lemon
A side that eats like a snack. Very hot pan, no crowding, and let them blister properly before you move them.
The sheet · 2 as a side · 12 min
easyWhy tonight. A side that eats like a snack. Very hot pan, no crowding, and let them blister properly before you move them.
What it needs
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- green beans
- olive oil
- lemon
- smoked salt
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: chili flakes.
Method
- Very hot dry pan, beans in one layer, and left alone until they blister and blacken in spots.
- Crowding is the only way to get this wrong. Two batches beat one crowded pan every time.
- Lemon and smoked salt the moment they come off the heat, while they are still hot enough to absorb it.
- A side that eats like a snack, and best eaten standing at the stove.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- green beans
- They want either a very short cook or a very long one.
- olive oil
- Two ingredients sharing a name.
- lemon
- Acid you add at the end, not the start.
- smoked salt
- Smoke without a fire, delivered as seasoning.
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