Green Bean Casserole

Ingredients:
1 1/2 Lb. green beans
1/2 small onion chopped in tiny cubes
2 Tbsp. butter
1 Tbsp. olive oil
1 Lb. white button mushroom (washed and chopped in small pieces)
1 tsp. fresh thyme leaves
2 cloves garlic minced
1 tsp. chipotle pepper
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 C water
2 Tbsps. flour
1/3 C plain yogurt
1/2 C milk
1/2 C Parmesan cheese
Freshly grounded black peppercorn
1 C fried shallots

Making:
Heat the olive oil and sauté the onions very lightly

Add the mushrooms and sauté on high heat very quickly

Sprinkle a little flour as the mushrooms release the its juice

Add thyme, garlic, chipotle pepper, nutmeg, and black pepper

Add the rest of the flour mix well and gently

Add the water lower the heat

Once the mixture thickens add the yogurt and the milk

Add Parmesan cheese mix well and set a side

Pinch the both end of the beans wash well and divide in three pieces

Boil a pot of water and toss the beans into the boiling water and cook until the beans soften.

Drain the beans and transfer into a Pyrex baking pan

Mix the mushroom gravy into the boiled beans

Bake in 350 F oven for 20 minutes.

Top the casserole with fried shallots.

Broil for 4 minutes.

Serve along with stuffed lamb roast, or ham.
4/1/2016

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