Green Bean Casserole
This cleaned-up classic still brings all the goodness of your grandma’s recipe, with fresh green beans and no creamed soups or store-bought onion topping.
Crispy “Fried” Onions
- 2 large yellow onions (peeled, cut in half from root to stem, and sliced 1/4″ thick)
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour (use your favorite gluten free flour to adapt to GF)
- 2 tbsp panko bread crumbs (use GF panko to adapt to GF)
- 1 tsp real salt
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil (or fat of your choice)
Green Beans
- 1 tbsp Real salt
- 1 lb fresh green beans (rinsed, trimmed, and quartered)
Sauce
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter or ghee
- 12 ounces mushrooms (sliced)
- 1 tsp Real salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper (freshly ground)
- 2 cloves garlic (minced)
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 2 tbsp all-purpose flour
- 1 cup redmond raw milk (or heavy cream)
- 1 cup chicken bone broth (or regular chicken broth)
- Heat oven to 400 degrees F
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Season with the tablespoon of salt. Your beans will go in here later.
- Pulse the flour, panko and salt in food processor 5-6 times to break up the panko a bit.
- Toss the flour mixture and oil with the onions.
- Evenly distribute the onions on a cookie sheet.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown, tossing/stirring halfway through to maintain evenness. Remove from oven and allow to cool.
- While the onions are cooking, blanch the beans by boiling them for 5 minutes (or until barely crisp), draining, and then rinsing in plenty of cold water. The cold water at the end will prevent further cooking from residual heat.
- Melt the butter in a large saute pan over medium-high heat. When melted, add the mushrooms, teaspoon of salt and pepper and cook, stirring frequently, 6-7 minutes or until the mushrooms start to brown and give up their liquid.
- Add the garlic and nutmeg and saute for another minute.
- Sprinkle the flour over the mushrooms and cook, stirring for another minute.
- Stir in the broth to deglaze the pan. Scrape the bottom of the pan with your spoon/spatula to loosen any bits and pieces.
- One minute later add the raw milk or cream. Bring to a simmer then reduce the heat to medium low and cook until thick, around 6-8 minutes. Remove from the heat
- Combine the mushrooms and sauce with the green beans, half of the onion mixture, then top with the remainder of the onions and bake until bubbly and brown, 15-20 minutes.
Recipe adapted from www.altonbrown.com
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Perfect! I’m glad you found your way here, then; we’re all about cutting out processed foods (while still creating delicious meals!)