Do you know be good Thanksgiving jokes?
My family told me to stop telling Thanksgiving jokes,
but I told him I couldn't go cold turkey.
Hey I'm Megan Mitchell, and I'm here in the Thrive Market Test Kitchen and today
I'm gonna show you a Thanksgiving staple made vegan and Whole30, and Keto, and
it's magical basically. It's the most magical dish: green bean casserole with a
homemade crispy onion topping featuring Nutiva.
Two nutiva oils! But before I get started be sure to like, comment, subscribe.
What's your favorite Thanksgiving side dish, I want to know! Mine is green bean casserole,
and mashed potatoes, but I also like Turkey, and I also like stuffing.
If you're wondering what Thrive Market is, it's an online market that sells
non-gmo and organic products straight to your door and turkeys, so it's perfect
for Thanksgiving! So maybe check it out. To start I'm gonna make my cream base.
When you make green bean casserole it's usually cream of mushroom soup - condensed
cream of mushroom soup. So this is my version. Because I'm making it dairy-free,
I have cashews that I soaked overnight. You want to put them in cold water, cover
them by at least an inch soak them overnight, drain and rinse them, and this
will make this dish nice and creamy and it doesn't really taste nutty. It doesn't
taste like I'm eating cashews, it just tastes creamy. Coconut milk.
Okay blend this up until it's smooth and creamy, about a minute or two.
Wait. Jeez louise. There's a button underneath,
that wasn't pushed for me. I can't push buttons! Alright let's try that again,
for one to two minutes.
Oh knocked some bowls under my table. Ooh kind of looks like an
alfredo sauce; thick, creamy, it's my faux cream of mushroom soup. I'm adding
mushrooms later, but this is the cream base. I've I've made this before and I've
added truffle salt and tossed with pasta, and it legit tastes like alfredo sauce.
So this is a great base to make into whatever you want, cream of broccoli soup,
cream of mushroom soup. Add it to whatever you want to make nice and
creamy, but you want to keep it vegan. Okay I'm gonna go over to the stove and show you how this all comes together.
I don't need this quite yet so I'm gonna set it aside.
Did that seem aggressive the way I just walked in? I don't care. Alright I have a
shallow dutch oven, but you can use a large skillet. But I like that I can put
this directly into my oven, and it can go straight to the table, so I don't have to
do any more dishes on Thanksgiving. Medium heat I'm using Nutiva garlic - oh I
thought the top was gonna be on, and I was gonna lose my mind! I'm using Nutiva's
liquid coconut oil flavored with garlic; because I don't want to mince garlic,
I don't want to chop garlic, but I want that good garlic flavor! So delicious!
Alright a couple tablespoons in your hot pan, and I have thinly sliced cremini
mushrooms. Working in batches sauté them.
The thing with mushrooms you don't want to overcrowd the pan, you don't want to
add too many because they're gonna steam and then they'll just get soggy, and I want
them a nice golden brown. I think I can do it, and I put my mushrooms in the pan. Put
them in a flat even layer, and then I don't touch him for a couple minutes so
they get a nice crust on them. Then I'll toss them, let them brown, and then I'll
season them after they've cooked. So I don't want to draw any moisture from there
right now. So let's just sit back, relax, and watch mushrooms cook.
Alright let's season with salt and pepper. These look perfect; and if your pan
gets a little dry in between cooking you can always add more Nutiva coconut oil.
Okay I have thinly sliced shallots, cook these for five minutes or so until they
soften. Break them up, breaking up shallots. This looks
lovely. I'm gonna turn off the heat, I'm gonna add in some nutmeg and some dried
sage. You could do fresh sage but why not, why not do some dried sage. And I have
three pounds of fresh green beans that I cut into about 1, 1 and 1/2 inch pieces.
Add this in,
and then I'm adding in my faux cream of mushroom - my creamy soup. Look how thick that is.
Now liberally season with salt and pepper; because this has to season all of
your green beans, and all of the land; and nobody wants a bland vegan dish. It's
really good, right? Stir it up. Oh this smells so good! At this point you could
make it a couple days in advance. So you could make this, cool it down, pop it in
the fridge and then on the day of you could bake it off. If you're looking to
cut down on some cooking time. Thanksgiving can be a little
overwhelming when you're thinking I have to make this, and I have to make that, and
then what about this. So make this a couple days in advance stir, stir, stir,
and it flat even layer and this - if you have a lid, cover it with a lid. If you
don't just cover it tightly with foil, pop it in a preheated oven at 350
degrees, bake it for 25 minutes, remove the lid, give it a nice stir, bake it for
another 15 to 20 minutes until it's bubbly ooey gooey delicious and the
beans are tender and not soggy. While this bakes, I'm gonna show you how to
make the crispy onion topping. You're gonna need some squeezable organic
Nutiva coconut oil, and it's really fun to squeeze into the pan. I have a cast
iron oh just enough to cover the bottom of the pan. This is a shallow fry. Beeb bo beeb.
Once it melts I have a couple shallots that I've just thinly sliced;
you don't want to overcrowd your pan, and these go pretty quick. So pop them in and
be ready be ready to go.
Break them up with your spatula. I'm sure they're good and crispy. Just want them
to be golden brown and crispy. Takes a couple minutes. My crispy onions are
ready to go. I'm gonna pull my casserole out of the oven, and I'm gonna show you
how this comes together. This is hot out of the oven and it's bubbly and it
smells insane. So to make this even better, take the crispy onions - just
sprinkle them on top. That looks amazing yeah yeah I think it does. I hope you
give this a try this Thanksgiving and let me know if you do! Be sure to like,
comment, subscribe. You can find all the products I used at thrivemarket.com/prepschool
Happy cooking! Happy Thanksgiving.
Stir, stir, stir. You guys got to do a montage or just me stirring stuff like oh lord.