Green Bean Casserole

Directions

• To begin with take 400g of washed mushrooms and slice.
• Now take a large saucepan and place over a medium heat on the stove.
• Add a knob of butter and allow to melt then add in the sliced mushrooms.
• Also add 4 finely chopped garlic cloves and 4 rashers or chopped bacon (if you want to keep it vegetarian, simply skip this step out).
• Fry these ingredients for 5 minutes, making sure some of the juices from the mushrooms remain in the pan.
• To these juices, add 1 tbsp of plain flour.
• Mix the flour into the juices until the sauce becomes thicker.
• Next, pour in 40ml of double or heavy cream then top the ingredients up with vegetable stock until the ingredients are just covered.
• Give everything in the saucepan a stir then leave to simmer over a low heat for 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, in a separate saucepan, bring some water up to boiling point and blanch 250g or green beans.
• After the 5 minutes, take the green beans from the saucepan and place them in a bowl of cold water (which will stop them cooking).
• After 15 minutes of the mushroom sauce thickening up, add the green beans to the saucepan.
• Mix them in until all coated in the sauce, then take an oven dish.
• Pour the content of the saucepan into the dish and again, make sure those beans are coated in that lovely mushroom sauce.
• Then place into an oven that’s been preheated to 180c, which with 350f.
• Then leave to bake in the oven for 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile we’ll prepare some French fried onions for the topping.
• They’re easy to make because all you have to do is slice an onion, coat the onions in some milk and flour, then fry in a hot pan with some oil.
• When they’ve turned lovely and golden, set aside.
• After 15 minutes of baking, remove the green bean casserole from the oven.
• Again, give it a stir to make sure it’s all cooked and the sauce is lovely and thick.
• The add the french fried onions to the top.
• Also, grate over some parmesan cheese then your green bean casserole is ready to enjoy.