Almost exactly a year ago our lovely Laura Silver shared this much-loved recipe with the masses, and we thought we'd reshare it with you, in case you're running out of ideas for your Thanksgiving feast next week!
Green Bean Casserole is one of BitchBuzz's favorite festive meals - we highly recommend this for your Thanksgiving menu. (Or to simply jazz up a boring Friday night...)
Thanksgiving is exactly a week away, you have invited fifteen people over for dinner, but do you know what your cooking yet, or scarier still, how to cook it? From now until the Pilgrim loving day itself, BitchBuzz will be bringing you a selection of delicious Thanksgiving recipes worth undoing your top button for.
Now I will point out now that I am English, and just as I am sure you Yankees might do something blasphemous when cooking a Yorkshire Pudding, some of my versions may deviate a tiny bit from tradition.
To my credit though (hey, I can pat my own back can’t I?!) when I cooked this autumnal feast for the Americans in my life last Thanksgiving, they were all smiles, and I am 99% sure they weren’t just being polite.
I asked my Californian friend what her ultimate thanksgiving dish was, she told me you couldn’t get any better than Green Bean Casserole. As soon as she told me it contained both cheese and Ritz Crackers I was sold, and have been making it with roast dinners ever since. This yummy side dish even went down a treat at Christmas with my Liverpudlian (yep, like The Beatles) family.
Ingredients
Serves 6
550g Green Beans – Topped, tailed and chopped into bitesize pieces
1 onion, finely chopped
1 clove garlic, crushed
50g butter
50g plain flour
2pts milk
1 box Ritz crackers
200g cheddar cheese, grated
salt/pepper
Directions
Boil beans for 5 mins, drain and place in an oven dish
Melt better and fry garlic and onion for 5 minutes until softened
Stir in flour to make a paste and fry for 1 minute. Pour in milk, and whisk to remove lumps of flour. Slowly bring to the boil, stirring constantly, until the sauce has thickened.
Pour sauce over green beans. In a bowl, crush Rizt crackers until they have the consistency of bread crumbs, and combine with grated cheese.
Spread the mixture thickly over green bean and bake at 200C/Gas Mark 6, for 20 mins, until the topping is golden and crispy and the sauce is bubbling around the edges.
Look out tomorrow for the next installment of your thanksgiving feast!
Image via Talk of Tomatoes