Today on The Stay At Home Chef I'm showing you how to make Old-Fashioned
Green Bean Casserole.
This green bean casserole is absolutely delicious. It may
very well be the best you'll ever have! No cans of stuff here, we're going all
from scratch. To start you'll need two thinly sliced white onions and you can
slice them by hand with a knife or today I used a mandolin and you can see that
they're quite thin. Transfer all of those thinly sliced white onions into a mixing
bowl. Once you get all of those in we're gonna add in a 1/4 cup of
all-purpose flour, 2 tablespoons of panko breadcrumbs and, 1teaspoon of salt
and toss these all together with some tongs. We're gonna be making some crispy
onions to go on top. Then we'll spread these out into an even layer on a
lightly greased baking sheet. Then we're gonna bake these in a 450 degree oven
for about 30 minutes. Give the onions a toss every 10 minutes so that they crisp
up evenly. They'll be done when they're nicely browned and crispy. While those
are baking we'll get everything else ready to go. You'll need 2 pounds of
green beans and I like to use frozen green beans that are thawed because
they're already a little bit soft and steamed but if you want to use fresh
green beans you can do that to, just trim the ends and steam them for about
10 to 15 minutes until they're tender. Then place all of your green beans into
a 3 quart or 9 by 13 casserole dish. Set that aside and we'll head on over to the
stove to make our sauce. Get half a pound of diced bacon cooking over medium heat
You want to cook this until it's crispy. Once the bacon is crispy you want to
leave all of that grease in there and add in two cloves of minced garlic and
saute this for 30 seconds. You'll be able to smell that delicious garlic right
away then you'll add in 2 tablespoons of all purpose flour and stir this in until
all of the white specks have disappeared. Then we'll pour in 1 cup of chicken
broth and 1 cup of half-and-half which is a
mixture of half cream half milk that you find in American grocery stores and
we'll stir this in and bring it to a simmer. Once the mixture has come to a
simmer it will start to thicken. Once this mixture is thick and creamy you'll
want to turn off the heat and stir in half a teaspoon of black pepper and a
quarter teaspoon of ground nutmeg and that will finish off our sauce. We're
gonna pour this over our green beans and toss it together once the green beans
are evenly coated. We're gonna bake this in the 450 degree oven for about 15
minutes. After 15 minutes we're gonna pull our casserole back out of the oven
and we'll just place some of these crisp onions right on top. Cover the top
completely then I like to return this to the oven for just another 5 minutes. That
extra 5 minutes gives just a little bit more crispiness to those onions and then
you are ready to eat.
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