Butter Beans Recipe with Step by Step Photos

Name: Beans with Butter
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: green beans 200 g; Salt 1 tsp; black pepper 3 pinches; butter 50 g

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Butter beans Recipe Image — Butter Beans Recipe Image © Thomas Sixt

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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
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Here I show you my Butter Beans Recipe.

The green beans prepared with butter are a popular side dish for various main courses.

In this article I show you an insider tip from the world of star gastronomy.

It also includes information and tips on how to keep the beans green. I have documented the preparation for you step by step with photos.

Have fun reading and good luck!

Table of Contents

1. Recipe Butter Beans
2. Calories and Nutritional Values
3. Tipps for Preparing Butter Beans
4. Matching Ideas

1. Recipe Butter Beans

Below you will find step-by-step photo instructions and supplementary tips.

Beans with Butter

Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.

Servings 2

Calories 122

Total Time 25 Min.

Preparation Time 15 Min.

Cook Time 10 Min.

Simple instructions for the preparation of butter beans.

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Ingredients

200	g	green beans
1	tsp	Salt (I use Himalayan salt)
3	pinches	black pepper
50	g	butter

Instruction

Clean the green beans — Clean green beans or green beans.

Clean beans

Wash and dry the beans and cut off the ends.

Cleaned green beans — Beans trimmed on the board

Prepare blanching

Prepare the beans for blanching.

Place a pot of water on top and bring to the boil.

Season the water with salt.

Boil raw beans — Boil beans in salted water.

Cooking beans

Place the beans in the boiling water and blanch until al dente.

Firm to the bite Cool cooked beans — Blanch the beans and let them cool.

Cool beans

Then cool the cooked beans in cold water.

Water with ice cubes is ideal.

Place the beans on a sieve to drain.

Butter in a saucepan while cooking. — Heat the butter in a pan, prepare the nut butter.

Prepare Ghee

Foam the butter in a saucepan.

I always do this with two packets of butter, so I have pure butterfat or ghee or browned nut butter in stock.

Nut butter, that's browned butter. — Nut butter in a bowl.

Nut butter prepared

Pass the browned butter through a stainless steel hair sieve and make ready.

Blanched beans in a saucepan with butter — Green beans in a saucepan with butter, salt and pepper.

Season beans

Heat the prepared, blanched and cooled beans in the nut butter shortly before serving, season to taste with salt and pepper.

Serve

Arrange the butter beans and serve quickly.

Enjoy your meal!

The preparation of homemade nut butter should be done every two weeks.

I then fill my homemade, tanned ghee into a screw glass and put the clarified butter in the fridge.

So I always have the delicious fat at hand.

2. Calories and Nutritional Values

3. Tipps for Preparing Butter Beans

After removing the ends, cook the beans in boiling salted water until al dente and then in ice water.
The green colour of the bean is retained by the rapid cooling.
Foam the butter in a saucepan and simmer for 10 minutes. Then lightly brown and pass through a fine sieve. You need a stainless steel hair sieve because the butter is very hot.
The browned butter is also called nut butter and is preferred in star restaurants.
Nut butter makes a special dish out of your beans!
Just before serving, swivel the blanched beans in the nut butter and heat them up.
Season with salt and pepper and serve.

Butter beans are an evergreen side dish and go well with various dishes such as German pot roast, roast lamb and steak.

Raw beans in a pot. You can chop the beans before or after cooking. Small beans will take on more flavour later. © Food Photographer Thomas Sixt