Dinner · 12 min · Amounts not specified
Blistered green beans
Blister, then season. Not boiled.
The sheet · 4 as a side · 12 min
easyWhy tonight. Blister, then season. Not boiled.
What it needs
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- green beans
- garlic
- olive oil
- soy sauce
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: sesame seeds.
Method
- Dry beans into a dry, very hot pan with no oil at all for the first minute, until they blister and spot black.
- Only then the oil and the garlic, for thirty seconds.
- Soy around the edge of the pan rather than over the top, so it caramelizes instead of steaming.
- They should still snap. Blistered is a texture and boiled-then-fried is not the same thing.
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- Roasting vegetablesOvercooking Vegetables On Purpose? | Techniquely With Lan LamAmerica's Test KitchenDeliberately pushing vegetables past just-cooked, and what that buys you.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Produce prepHow To Mince GarlicAmerica's Test KitchenSmashing and mincing a clove down to something that cooks evenly instead of burning in pieces.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Produce prepThe Best Way to Mince Garlic | Serious Eats At HomeSerious EatsCompares the knife methods for garlic, including when to take it all the way to paste.Link checked 2026-09-08
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.
- garlic
- Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
- olive oil
- Two ingredients sharing a name.
- soy sauce
- Salt with a savory backbone, so it seasons and deepens in one move.
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