Easy green bean recipes
Make the most of hearty green beans with our easy recipes, including fresh salads, simple starters and filling sides
Looking for easy green bean recipes? Want the best healthy salad or a vegetable side dish? Nourishing green beans require little preparation and can be paired with a variety of dishes. See our ideas below and for more inspiration, see our runner bean recipes, spring green recipes, borlotti bean recipes and broad bean recipes.
Easy green bean recipes
Green bean curry
This vegetarian curry, adapted from Laxmi Khurana’s An Indian Housewife’s Recipe Book, is teeming with fragrant flavours and warming spice. You can use frozen beans, but it’s even better to use them fresh while at their best in the summer for extra crunch.
Healthy bean salad
This simple and healthy assortment of green beans, kidney beans and cannellini beans is easy to assemble yet offers impressive results, finished with a green tahini dressing for an extra boost.
Sichuan dry-fried green beans
We love the zing of sichaun peppercorns – they pair perfectly with robust green beans. This is one of the most popular takeaways among our team, but only takes minutes to recreate.
Green beans with confit garlic and tahini dressing
This recipe for green beans with confit garlic and tahini dressing makes a quick and easy veggie side that's far from boring.
Green beans with coconut
A wonderfully fragrant Sri Lankan side dish straight from the kitchen of Kolamba restaurant in London. A homemade unroasted curry powder and plenty of fresh grated coconut is the key.
Peach, halloumi and green bean salad
One for the griddle or barbecue – peaches and halloumi are grilled then tossed with salad, nuts and green beans to make a fast, easy first course.
Grains, greens and beans salad with pesto dressing
On the table in 15 minutes, this nutritious salad is packed with greens and wholegrains and tossed in fresh pesto.
Greens and beans salad
This greens and beans salad is a quick and easy vegan salad for four. It's under 300 calories, so is a good recipe for a lighter dinner or quick lunch.
Green bean, orange and tapenade salad
Ready in 20 minutes, this simple salad from 26 Grains in Covent Garden is packed with crunchy green beans, juicy oranges and homemade tapenade.
Spiced green bean and tomato rice
Sabrina Ghayour takes a classic Persian recipe, loobia polow (rice cooked with green beans and meat), and makes it veggie for a showstopping meat-free main.
Sumac chicken and green bean salad
This sumac chicken and green bean salad is ready in just 20 minutes and comes in at under 300 calories, making it perfect for an easy midweek meal.
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