French Beans with Garlic and Rosemary

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
What to Eat Now (Spring & Summer)

By Valentine Warner

Published 2009

  • About

When the weather is hot and sluggish, and you can’t be bothered to move, this is a very fine anol suitably light lunch as well as a great accompaniment to fat fish and grilled meats such as the veal chops.

Ingredients

  • 2 large grabbing-handfuls of French beans
  • 5 large garlic cloves
  • 4 tablespoons

Method

Top but don’t tail the beans, as that beautiful long nose is nothing but good bean, so why in heaven’s name pinch it off? Drop the beans into a pot of rolling water and boil for 5 minutes. French beans are so often underdone in the name of crunchiness; they need to be bitey but also cooked. Given the right time you should be able to bend them into an S-shape without them snapping, due to being