Franglais: Garlic-oholic Roasted Haricots Verts

Garlic-oholic Roasted Haricots Verts

This is one of those un-photogenic recipes that gets little fanfare.  But it is so good.  If you want an easy veg, this is the one.  Green garlicky goodness.  Mr. English asks for it every night.

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This recipe is not particularly beautiful, or especially complicated. But that doesn’t mean it’s not one of the best. It completely debunks the myth that effort and deliciousness are proportionally related.

The success of these green beans is completely based around one simple secret method: putting raw garlic on hot vegetables. Roasted green beans are themselves delicious–slightly shriveled, distinctly sweet, tender-crisp, with charred butts. Toss them, still hot, with a paste of gold-dust-fine grated garlic, and watch the magic happen. If you roasted the garlic with the haricots verts, it would burn. If you waited too long and put the garlic on cold, or even warm, green beans, the garlic would remain raw, too spicy, too pungent. But the combination of the hot vegetables and the super-fine garlic ensures that the garlic just cooks through, with just the heat of the green beans, to make this super garlicky perfect green side.

I’ve never seen a more successful vegetable. Light, healthy, easy, cheap, and it’s still the first thing to run out on the table, every time.