Green Beans With Dill

By Amanda Hesser

Updated May 5, 2016

  • Craig Lee for The New York Times
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Total Time
20 minutes
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Steamed green beans served with a button of butter make for a perfectly acceptable side dish, but if you're looking to elevate the green bean to company-worthy status (with almost no more effort), here's your recipe. Just blanch the beans for a few minutes, toss with butter, chopped fresh dill and a grind or two of black pepper.

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Ingredients

Yield:4 servings

  • Sea salt to taste

  • 4 large handfuls haricots verts or green beans, stem ends trimmed

  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter

  • 2 to 3 tablespoons chopped fresh dill

  • Coarsely ground black pepper to taste

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Nutritional analysis per serving (4 servings)

1 gram carbs; 15 milligrams cholesterol; 56 calories; 2 grams monosaturated fat; 4 grams saturated fat; 6 grams fat; 54 milligrams sodium; 1 gram sugar

Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.

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Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Fill a pot with water. Season with salt so that you can taste it. Bring to a boil.

  2. Step 2

    Plunge beans into water. Cook 2 to 3 minutes or until just tender but still quite firm. If you're using green beans, it will take a minute or so longer. Drain. Return beans to pot. Add butter, stir in 2 tablespoons dill and season with pepper.

  3. Step 3

    Stir and toss beans in pot over low heat, until butter is melted. Taste a bean and season with salt and more pepper, or dill, if desired.

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Comments

ET

I tried to serve this as a cold salad and it didn't work at all: the solidified butter made an unpleasant whitish coating on the beans. The flavors were great, but please don't make the same mistake I did!

Renee

Recommend adding lemon zest and lemon juice for a little brightness at the end.

Anna

These are the best green beans I’ve ever had! I added extra dill and used salted butter (only butter I had). I didn’t add salt, just pepper and they were perfection. I had green beans and dill from a farm share and had no idea what to do with them. Voila! Now I have a new favorite recipe.

Andy

I love this recipe - delicious, and a fantastic way to use up leftover dill from salmon dishes.

Eva

Can I use dried dill?

Ellen

To keep beans very green add 1tsp baking soda to first boil.

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