Green Beans with Miso Butter Onions
onions are sweet and tender, drenched in that unctuous miso-butter sauce
This GREEN BEANS WITH MISO BUTTER ONIONS is side dish perfection. Onions are cooked until nearly melt-in-your-mouth in a simple but flavourful 3-ingredient braising liquid of butter, miso paste and water. To serve, the tender onions are served over green beans, under a blanket of the umami-rich, unctuous sauce.
The credit for the miso butter onions part of this recipe is owed to Ottolenghi Flavor: A Cookbook co-authored by Yotam Ottolenghi and Ixta Belfrage, a duo that requires no introduction if you pay even a little attention to the who’s who of chefs. I fell in love with their miso butter onions recipe immediately and made it a handful of times, adapting it slightly with each go. Honestly the only room for improvement was to find a way to enjoy every last bit of the gorgeous umami-rich braising liquid because I seemed to always have quite a bit of it left behind once the onions were eaten. Hence I’ve taken to the practice of adding a little cornstarch slurry to thicken the liquid just a touch, and serving it over green beans for an altogether more fulsome dish.
This GREEN BEANS WITH MISO BUTTER ONIONS deserves of a spot on your menu whenever you’re entertaining but I can easily make a meatless meal of it alongside some sourdough toasts or over a bed of farro to soak up all the saucy goodness. So good!
Eat well + be well!
Sonia x
simple ingredients for the best veggie side dish ever
miso paste and butter whisked together
add warm water — that’s it for the sauce!
onion halves placed cut-side down, ready for the oven
after braising covered for 20 minutes, the onions are flipped over and returned to the oven
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Recipe Head Note - Green Beans with Miso Butter Onions
What is miso paste?
Miso paste is staple in Japanese cuisine, made through a process of fermenting soy beans with salt, koji and often other ingredients such as rice. There is white, yellow and red miso paste. For this recipe, use white or yellow miso paste. Red miso paste will be too strong. You will find miso paste at all East Asian supermarkets and increasingly at conventional supermarkets as well. They tend to be next to the tofu in a refrigerated section close to produce.
Green Beans with Miso Butter Onions
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