By way of the years of including and subtracting varied dishes to my household’s Thanksgiving desk, the one dish unanimously voted to ELIMINATE, as in ‘STOP making this!’ has been Inexperienced Bean Casserole! With the canned cream of mushroom soup, canned mushrooms, the overcooked massive inexperienced beans, and the canned fried onions, the outdated recipe was only a bunch of YUCK to my health-oriented household.
Adios and goodbye!
I hear you! You’re saying: “Nevertheless it’s conventional to serve this dish for Thanksgiving, proper?” It positive is!
And that’s how this scrumptious recipe for Inexperienced Bean Casserole with Parmesan, Pancetta, and Porcini Mushrooms happened! Belief me, there may be nothing canned or boring on this vegetable facet dish! It’s all about FRESH and making from scratch!
This recipe requires just a little bit extra work and time than the canned recipes, however is Soooo Value It! This recipe is solely indulgent! The inexperienced beans are crispy and crunchy and lathered with a creamy, porcini, pancetta, and parmesan sauce that’s merely out of this world. The mushroom sauce is so good, it may be served on it’s personal as a soup! Topping off the entire dish are freshly fried/baked buttermilk onion rings. Watch out, they’re scrumptious and laborious to withstand gobbling up whilst you’re making the remainder of the recipe.
You may as well regulate this recipe simply. In order for you extra inexperienced beans, not an issue. There’s loads of mushroom sauce. Or possibly you need much less sauce, so that you merely scale back the quantity in your casserole.
To create this recipe, I checked out over 25 recipes from house cooks to well-known TV celeb cooks. I analyzed what every of the highest-rated recipes had in widespread. “Contemporary” needed to be the primary standards that my new recipe needed to be.
So What Do Recipes for Inexperienced Bean Casseroles that Use Contemporary Elements Have in Frequent?
First Of All, Each Ingredient Is FRESH, FRESH, FRESH!
Don’t use any canned inexperienced beans, no canned soup, no canned onions, and no canned mushrooms!
Choose contemporary, skinny French inexperienced beans (Haricots Verts are very good) as an alternative of thicker inexperienced beans.
Use flavorful contemporary or dried mushrooms reminiscent of porcini, cremini, or child portabello mushrooms
Add some smoked bacon or pancetta!
Use extra fascinating cheeses reminiscent of Parmesan, Fontina, or Pepper Jack, simply to call a number of!
And put together the fried onion topping from scratch!
Elements That You’ll Want:
(Be aware: the complete substances listing, together with measurements, is offered within the recipe card instantly beneath.)
- Onions: Use contemporary onions rather than canned fried onions. A fried onion topping can’t be separated from inexperienced bean casseroles, so I high them with contemporary, crispy-fried onions! YUM!
- Butter: You want this to sauté the onions and garlic plus give it one other stage of wealthy taste.
- Contemporary inexperienced beans: Choose beans which might be spot-free and never wilted or gentle.
- Mushrooms: For an Italian twist, use stronger-flavored porcini mushrooms which might be in season proper now within the fall. However if you happen to want a extra delicate taste, use crimini or child Bella mushrooms.
- Garlic: The important ingredient in all savory Italian recipes!
- Hen broth: So as to add some further taste to the cream sauce.
- Worcestershire sauce: Being described recently as a flavoring that provides ‘umami’, oh you guess!
- Heavy cream: Essential for that creamy yum-sauce . . . no milk or water ever!
- Pancetta: Bacon is the traditional ingredient. However for an Italian spin on this American dish, I take advantage of diced pancetta. That is elective, and takes this inexperienced bean casserole to new ranges of deliciousness!
- Parmesan: Together with garlic, it lends to the proper Italian flavor-combo!
And now to point out you methods to put together this wonderful Contemporary Inexperienced Bean Casserole with Parmesan, Pancetta, and Porcini Mushrooms!
In a tall pot crammed with water, blanch the inexperienced beans for about 5 minutes. Because the inexperienced beans blanch, saute’ the chopped pancetta till totally cooked and browned.
Whereas the pancetta is sauteing, boil 3 cups of water after which place the dehydrated mushrooms within the sizzling water for 20 minutes.
As soon as the mushrooms are reconstituted, drain the liquid from the mushrooms and set the liquid apart.
When the mushrooms are cooled off, give them a very good chop.
It is a nice time to marinate the onion rings whereas the pancetta sautees and the mushrooms rehydrate,
Place the sliced onion rings in a big mixing bowl crammed with contemporary buttermilk.
As soon as the pancetta is completed cooking, place the chopped pancetta on a paper-towel-lined plate.
Discard the entire rendered grease.
After the inexperienced beans blanch within the sizzling water, instantly place them in a medium-sized bowl crammed with ice water.
Put together the fried onion topping from scratch!
Now let’s put together the cream sauce . . . oh that is yummy! In a big skillet, place the butter, onions, and garlic and saute’ till gentle and/or just a little golden.
Add the chopped mushrooms to the sauteed onions and garlic.
Add salt and pepper and cook dinner for about 10 minutes,
Add the thyme, nutmeg, cayenne pepper, and Worcestershire sauce; cook dinner for about 2 extra minutes.
Sprinkle the flour all around the mushroom-onion-garlic combination and stir to mix; cook dinner for 1 minute.
Pour the hen broth into the combination.
For added taste, add a few tablespoon of the reserved porcini mushroom liquid (just a little bit at a time).
Deliver the entire combination to a boil for five minutes or so.
Then scale back the warmth to medium-low and add the cream and parmesan cheese.
Prepare dinner till thickened, stirring sometimes, for 10 – 12 minutes.
Add the chopped Italian Parsley
Combine within the pancetta
Add the inexperienced beans
Pour your complete combination right into a baking dish
Bake at 350 levels for 20 minutes with out the onions on high.
After baking for 20 minutes, scatter the onion rings on high of the casserole and bake for one more 5 minutes
(or broil it, however keep watch over it. You don’t need these to burn!)
PIN IT FOR LATER!
Elements
Buttermilk Fried/Baked Onions
- 3 yellow onions, thinly sliced
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 1 cup flour
- 3 cups panko
- 2 Tbsp. contemporary Italian parsley, minced
GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE
- 16 oz. contemporary mushrooms, sliced (I used porcini mushrooms)
- 8 oz. of thick-cut smoked bacon or pancetta
- 2-1/2 lbs. French inexperienced beans, contemporary, ends trimmed off
- 3 – 4 Tbsp. butter
- 1 cup diced yellow onion
- ⅛ tsp. cayenne pepper
- 1 cup hen broth
- 3 cups cream or half and half
- 3 Tbsp. flour
- 1 cup Parmigiano cheese, freshly-shredded
- 4 massive cloves contemporary garlic, minced
- 2 Tbsp. contemporary thyme, minced
- ½ cup, contemporary Italian parsley, minced
- ⅛ tsp. freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp. kosher salt
- ½ tsp. freshly cracked black pepper
- Garnish: Grated Parmesan cheese
- Non-compulsory garnish: ½ cup Italian parsley, minced
- Non-compulsory garnish: Diced and browned pancetta
Directions
Put together the onion topping:
- Preheat oven to 475 F levels.
- Separate the entire onion strips from one another and soak them within the buttermilk for 10 minutes minimal.
- Coat a baking sheet pan or two with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a big mixing bowl, combine collectively the breading substances: Flour, panko, Italian parsley, and salt. Take one handful at a time of onions that had been soaking in buttermilk. Toss the onions with the dry combination after which place them on the baking sheet pan and unfold the sliced onions evenly on the pan.
- Place the pan on the center rack of the oven and bake the breaded onion rings till golden brown, virtually half-hour, giving the onions a toss 2 – 3 instances throughout this baking interval. You may as well use an Air Fryer or fry them historically.
- Take away from the oven and set the onions apart to make use of later.
- Cut back the oven temperature to 400 F levels.
Whereas the onions are soaking and baking, put together the mushrooms:
- Place the dehydrated porcini mushrooms in a medium-sized bowl and canopy them with not less than 3 cups of sizzling, boiling water, and canopy with plastic wrap not less than 3 cups of sizzling boiling water to RE-constitute.
- Enable them to steep within the sizzling water/broth for 20 minutes after which pressure the liquid via a fine-mesh strainer, reserving not less than 1 cup of the mushroom liquid. Set each apart.
Whereas the mushrooms are soaking, saute’ the pancetta:
- Saute’ the chopped pancetta till totally cooked for 8 – 10 minutes. Stir sometimes and when properly caramelized/or browned, switch to a paper-towel-lined plate. Drain and discard the recent grease and set the pancetta apart.
Whereas the pancetta is sauteeing, put together the inexperienced beans:
- Deliver a tall pot of water with 2 Tablespoons of salt to a boil.
- Add the inexperienced beans and blanch within the boiling water till crisp-tender and vibrant inexperienced (for 3 – 5 minutes).
- Whereas beans are boiling, fill a really massive bowl with ice water.
- After the 5 minute blanch within the boiling water, rapidly drain the beans in a colander and instantly plunge the beans into a big bowl of ice water to cease the cooking. Drain the beans and put aside.
Put together the sauce:
- Chop up the reconstituted porcini mushrooms.
- Soften butter in a heavy skillet on a medium-high warmth range burner.
- Add the chopped onions and garlic, cook dinner, stirring till softened and the onions are caramelized about 5 minutes.
- Add the chopped mushrooms, 1 teaspoon salt and pepper, and cook dinner, stirring sometimes, till the mushrooms start to lose a few of their liquid, about 10 minutes.
- Add the thyme, nutmeg, cayenne pepper, and Worcestershire sauce and cook dinner for two extra minutes.
- Sprinkle the flour over the combination; stir to mix. Prepare dinner for 1 minute.
- Whisk within the broth and among the reserved mushroom liquid (add just a little at a time and style as you go) and convey to a boil.
- Cut back the warmth to medium-low and add cream, parmesan cheese, and Italian parsley. Prepare dinner till the combination thickens, stirring sometimes, for 10 – 12 minutes.
- Take away from the warmth and stir in the entire blanched inexperienced beans and the pancetta.
- Switch every little thing right into a 3-quart baking dish (you possibly can refrigerate this casserole, coated, for as much as 4 hours, however preserve the onion topping at room temperature).
- Bake the casserole till effervescent, about 20 minutes. Then sprinkle with the onion topping.
- Bake till warmed via, about one other 5 minutes.
- Garnish (Non-compulsory) Sprinkle minced Italian parsley and diced, sauteed pancetta all around the high of the casserole.
The inspiration for this recipe got here from a mixture of recipes as the essential basis. These recipes had been from The Pioneer Woman and Alton Brown
Unique put up in 2020 and up to date put up in 2024.
