Buttery Garlic Green Beans With Glazed Pecans is an easy recipe of fresh green beans sautéed with red onion and garlic, simmered in white wine, tossed with buttery goodness and crowned with glazed pecans.
Sauteed Green Beans Recipe
The holiday season is here! Time to dress up the green beans! Do you still make that classic green bean casserole every Thanksgiving and Christmas?
It’s time to update your green bean casserole for Thanksgiving and the holidays with this easy side dish recipe!
We’ve elevated the classic green bean casserole to a sauteed green beans recipe, Buttery Garlic Green Beans With Glazed Pecans!
It’s really so easy cooking green beans in a skillet. Just wait until you give this recipe a try, you’ll never look back.
In fact, this vegetable recipe is so easy to make you'll want to serve it on weeknights too, not just for special occasions!
Fresh green beans are sauteed to tender crispness and coated in a buttery wine goodness.
Add in sauteed mild red onions and glazed pecans and you have yourself a fresh green beans recipe that has come into it's own.
Now we're talking holidays! Buttery green beans are all dressed up and ready to party with glazed pecans adding a sweet and nutty flavor!
Here at Swirls we have lots more delicious side dish recipes for you to try too.
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Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips
- Make with fresh marjoram
- Can’t find glazed pecans? Just make with toasted pecans!
- Already prepared glazed pecans by Emerald Brand can be found in the nuts section of your grocery store.
- Sprinkle with crispy cooked bacon pieces
Substitutions
- Substitute white, yellow or sweet onion for the red onion
- Substitute chicken broth for the white wine
- Substitute vegetable broth for the white wine
How to make buttery green beans
Scroll down for the full recipe instructions and ingredient amounts in the recipe card below
- Heat oil in large a non-stick skillet over medium-high heat.
- Cook red onion, garlic, marjoram, kosher salt and pepper until just beginning to soften, 2 minutes.
- Add wine and cook 1 minute.
- Stir in green beans and cook until tender crisp, stirring occasionally.
- Add butter and stir until butter is melted and green beans are evenly coated.
- Transfer to serving dish and top with glazed pecans.
Ingredients for sauteed green beans recipe
- olive oil
- red onion
- garlic
- dried marjoram
- kosher salt
- pepper
- white wine
- green beans
- butter
- glazed pecans
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Buttery Green Beans WIth Glazed Pecans
Ingredients
- 1 Tbs. olive oil
- 1/2 cup chopped red onion
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tsp. dried marjoram
- 1 tsp. kosher salt
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
- 1/3 cup white wine OR chicken broth
- 2 lbs. green beans, trimmed
- 3 Tbs. butter
- 1/2 cup glazed pecans, such as Emerald brand
Instructions
- Heat oil in large non-stick skillet over medium-high heat.
- Cook red onion, garlic, marjoram, kosher salt and pepper until just beginning to soften, 2 minutes.
- Add wine and cook 1 minute.
- Stir in green beans and cook until tender crisp, stirring occasionally.
- Add butter and stir until butter is melted and green beans are evenly coated.
- Transfer to serving dish and top with glazed pecans.
Notes
- Make with fresh marjoram
- Can’t find glazed pecans? Just make with toasted pecans!
- Already prepared glazed pecans by Emerald Brand can be found in the nuts section of your grocery store.
- Sprinkle with crispy cooked bacon pieces
- Substitute white, yellow or sweet onion for the red onion
- Substitute chicken broth for the white wine
- Substitute vegetable broth for the white wine
Nutrition
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