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Green bean purée

Green (or French) beans are usually served whole, for instance as an accompanying vegetable or in a salad, but they make a good purée, too.

This is tasty on its own, but also goes very well with meats, and children usually prefer it to "normal" beans.

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Last modified on: October 23^th 2019

For 1 kg 200 g, you will need:

1 1 kg green beans
2 200 g potatoes
3 50 g butter
4 100 g cream
5 salt
6 pepper
Total weight: 1,350 grams

Change those ingredients for: 400 g 600 g 1 kg 200 g 2 kg 400 g 3 kg 600 g

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
28 min.	5 min.	15 min.	48 min.

Keeping: A few days in the fridge, covered with plastic film or in a sealed container. Freezes very well.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 15 min.

Rinse 1 kg green beans and "top and tail" (trim off both ends).

Stage 2 - 10 min.

Boil in plenty of salted water until well cooked and soft.

Stage 3 - 2 min.

Take out of the water (but leave this on the heat for later), and cool the beans by running under cold water.

Leave to drain.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Peel and slice 200 g potatoes. Boil in the same water until soft.

Stage 5 - 10 min.

Pass the potatoes and beans through a vegetable mill.

Stage 6 - 1 min.

Transfer the purée into a saucepan on low heat.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Use a whisk to mix in 50 g butter and 100 g cream, salt and pepper, then check the seasoning.

Stage 8

Your green bean purée is ready.

Remarks

The potatoes are not essential, but do give the purée a more fluid texture.

Feel free to vary the quantities of cream and butter to suit your own taste.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,228 Kcal or 5,141 Kj	32 gr	112 gr	72 gr
61 %	12 %	11 %	11 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
91 Kcal or 381 Kj	2 gr	8 gr	5 gr
5 %	1 %	1 %	1 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 1 kg 200 g : 4.95 €

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Source

Home made.

More recipes?

This recipe uses (among others)

	Green beans: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: French bean salad with vinaigrette , Icelandic-style fish and vegetable pie, Mexican-style pork medallions , Salmon "en papillote" with small vegetables, Rolls of fish in smoked ham, ... All
	Potatoes: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chilli langoustines, Smooth mixed vegetable soup, Maroilles cheese quiche, Piedmont salad, Potato purée , ... All
	Cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Caesar salad, Scallops with fondue of leeks, Escalope of veal in a cream sauce, Baked leek and Camembert slices, Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Beurre d'escargot, Gratin slices with spinach, Spinach Mornay, Toffee apple upside-down cake, Aperitif rolls, ... All

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