Sauteed Green Beans! Perfect snack or side dish...

Hello! Tonight for dinner it was just my mom and I so we decided to go ahead and eat rotisserie chicken from Central Market (its soooo good!) and I thought that I would make one of my favorite snacks/side to accompany it.  For the majority of my life I have literally hated green beans.  I hate the texture and the weird spine that it has that literally always makes me want to choke... appetizing, right ;o) ?  Anyhow, my opinion was changed while I was at work one night and one of the girls ordered sauteed green beans.  She shared them with me and I fell IN LOVE with them! It was such a great texture and taste, very simple.  Ever since then I have been making them for a healthy snack or dinner side.  It takes absolutely no time at all!

Since August is "Hatch Chile" month, I went ahead and added them into my sauteed green bean recipe tonight, they were a great addition.  Hatch Chile's are crisp, sweet, delicious peppers that I love to put in sauceless pasta normally.  A really easy, quick, and healthy pasta recipe that I incorporate these peppers in includes:

Hatch Chile Pasta!

• Whole wheat pasta (boil water with olive oil and a pinch of salt) -- After noodles are done, drain. Then put back into the pot with the following ingredients...
• Chopped garlic
• Basil or arugula leaves
• Quartered cherry or grape tomatos
• Chicken
• Hatch pepers
• Parmesan cheese

Combine all of those and let the flavors heat up for just a little and mix around, adding the cheese at the very last moment for extra flavor! Easy as that! And soo good. 

Well, back to the Green Bean Recipe!

• 1/2 lb. Fresh green beans
• 4 Hatch peppers (if you want!)
• 2 Cloves garlic
• Extra-virgin olive oil
• 2 tsp Red wine vinegar
• Salt and pepper to taste (I love ground pepper so I put a lot!)
• About 5-6 slivered almonds

1.  Wash the beans and the hatch peppers.  Slice hatch peppers and chop garlic cloves (very small!).

2.  Put olive oil in a frying pan and set stove to medium heat.  Add green beans and 3-5 minutes after add hatch pepper.  Mix the two veggies together for a couple minutes until the green beans begin to start changing color and then add garlic, salt, pepper, and red wine vinegar! Stir around!

3.  Be sure to keep a close eye on the stove now.  The green beans will reach a vivid green and as soon as they do so, theyre done! If you keep them on for too long, they'll turn a darker/brownish green and you'll lose all the texture (which in my opinion is the best part!).  The beans will change from a pale green to a bright one, like the picture below! You also don't want the garlic to cook too long and turn brown. 

4.  Once they are finished, sprinkle the slivered almonds on top and you're done!

Enjoy!!

xox,
Emily