# Addictive Restaurant-Style Green Beans

These addictive green beans are perfectly blistered, glossy, salty-sweet, and feature a delightful crunch, making them a side dish that steals the show.

- Cuisine: American
- Category: Side
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 Lbs fresh green beans trimmed
- 2 tbsp avocado oil
- 8 garlic cloves
- 3 tbsp Sesame oil
- 0.25 cup soy sauce or tamari
- 2 tbsp sugar or honey
- 2 small lemons zested and juiced
- Salt
- sesame seeds
- chili flakes

## Instructions

1. Prep a bowl of ice water and boil your water at the same time.
2. Add the green beans to the boiling water and cook for 7-8 minutes until they are bright green, slightly crunchy, and soft to the bite.
3. Immediately transfer the cooked green beans to the ice water to stop the cooking process and let them cool down.
4. Peel garlic cloves and zhuzh them with a little avocado oil until it's a watery texture with visible pieces of garlic.
5. Heat your biggest frying pan and add oil to coat the bottom.
6. Add green beans to the hot pan in a single layer and let them sit undisturbed for 1 to 2 minutes until blistered, then toss and repeat once more to get a char on the bottom.
7. Add the zhuzhed garlic to the pan with the green beans and cook and toss for 1-2 minutes until fragrant.
8. Remove the green beans with the oil, garlic, and char from the pan and place them in a serving bowl.
9. In the same dirty pan, add sesame oil, soy sauce, and coconut sugar (or regular sugar/maple syrup).
10. Mix the sauce until the sugar melts and it becomes glossy.
11. Pour the sauce on top of the green beans.
12. Zest the peels of two full lemons into the green beans.
13. Juice the two full lemons and add the juice to the green beans.
14. Salt generously to taste and mix everything together.
15. Serve immediately.

## Equipment

- bowl of ice water
- large pot
- zhuzher
- biggest frying pan
- zester
- wide skillet or wok
- metal tongs (note: wooden utensils recommended by comments)

## Tips

- Use fresh green beans for the best results.
- The key to these green beans is getting a little char on the bottom.
- The lemon is what makes these green beans truly addictive.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTQ26fwkj_F/?igsh=MW9jcWw1ajNqajF4bQ==
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- Extracted: 2026-01-15

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