These Low Carb Warm Green Beans With Blue Cheese can be served as a side salad and warmed as a vegetable accompaniment. No comments to make on this recipe as the ingredients should speak for themselves. I should add that the dressing used for low carb warm green beans with blue cheese is also fabulous on salads of just about any kind.
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- 1 Lb Green Beans
- ⅓ C Toasted Sliced Almonds
- 4 Pieces Bacon
- 2 Oz Good Quality Meltable Blue Cheese
- ½ C Slivered Shallots (Or Onions Work As Well)
- 3 T Olive Oil
- 2 T Red Wine Vinegar
- ½ T Dijon Mustard
- ½ t Salt
- ¼ t Crushed Garlic
- Fresh Cracked Pepper
- Cook bean in boiling water until barely tender-about 5-6 minutes, drain, put in large bowl.
- Cut and cook bacon until crispy, add to beans, reserving the fat.
- Sauté shallots in bacon fat, add to beans.
- Toast almonds. I do mine in the same sauté pan on the stove-top with a small amount of bacon grease. Add almonds to beans reserving 1 T to garnish on top.
- Whisk mustard, garlic, salt, & vinegar, whisk in olive oil, add blue cheese, add to any remaining bacon fat, and heat slowly just until cheese begins to melt.
- Dress the beans.
- Serve with lots of cracked pepper.
- 6 Servings
- 136 Calories, 5.9g Protein, 9.8g Fat, 6.1g Carbs, 2.5g Fiber, 3.6 Net Carbs