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Sometimes it’s hard to dress up green beans, but this recipe is delicious. The creamy Mediterranean-style dressing adds so much flavor to the green beans that you won’t miss your high-carb potato salad.
Serves: 4
Time to Table: 20 minutes
Healing Nutrient Spotlight
Source of vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium
Ingredients*
1 pound fresh green beans
1 small clove garlic, minced
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/2 c plain yogurt (sheep’s or goat’s milk)
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
Fresh ground pepper, to taste
*Use organic ingredients for optimal nutrition.
Preparation
Snap or cut off ends of green beans. Place a bowl of ice water on your counter. Steam green beans to desired tenderness. When beans are done, plunge them into a bowl of ice water. After a minute, remove the green beans from the ice water and let them drain on a kitchen towel. In a separate serving bowl, put in the minced garlic, salt, yogurt, oil and parsley and mix ingredients lightly with a fork or whisk. Add green beans and toss to coat. Serve cold.
Nutrition
61 calories, 2 g protein, 4 g carbohydrates, 5 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 3 g monounsaturated fat, 1 g polyunsaturated fat, 4 mg cholesterol, 1 g sugar, 1 g fiber, 199 IU vitamin A, 4 mg vitamin C, 51 mg calcium, 296 mg sodium
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Thanks for your good articles, i have been going your total health breakthrough and it has help me a lot.The recipe of french beans was wonderfull.Am HIV negative and i would like you to give me more recipe for boosting my immunity.or anything that can help me.
Thanking you inadvance
Joyce W. Ngari
Entered: June 10th, 2009 at 6:31 am. PermalinkMombasa
Kenya