Need an easy side dish for dinner tonight? These Roasted Garlic Sesame Seed Green Beans and Tomatoes would be perfect on your table! Crispy greens beans are easy and delicious!
I have such wonderful memories of my grandparents. I don’t have a ton of memories of cooking in the kitchen with them but I still have a lot of memories attached to them.
While I may not have a lot of memories in the kitchen cooking with them, I have a lot of memories connected to them and food.
Memories of my Papa’s garden and helping him pick tomatoes and green beans, memories of sitting on my Ma’s couch with a big white bowl in my lap while I helped her snap the ends from green beans before she made dinner are still etched into my mind.
How many of y’all remember snapping green beans with your grandparents of parents? What a sweet little memory to have!
Even though that was quite a long time ago. Sometimes I wish that I could pick those memories out and sit them aside so that I never ever forget them.
My grandparents didn’t make “Whole 30” or “Paleo” meals. They didn’t fall into the Farm to Table Fab or worry if anything was Organic when they were making dinner. They just made dinner. They cooked with the vegetables from their farm, they cooked the chickens that ran around in the yard.
I wish we had that.
We don’t. I don’t know if we’ll ever have the land and space to do that. Until that day comes though, I’m going to continue my love affair with the Farmer’s Market at super simple fresh recipes like this that make me think of my grandparents.
Roasted Garlic Sesame Seed Green Beans and Tomatoes
Roasted Garlic Sesame Seed Green Beans and Tomatoes
Need an easy side dish for dinner tonight? These Roasted Garlic Sesame Seed Green Beans and Tomatoes would be perfect on your table! Crispy greens beans are easy and delicious!
- Prep Time: 5m
- Cook Time: 25m
- Total Time: 30m
- Serves: 2
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 5 ounces fresh green beans with ends snapped off (2 handfuls of beans)
- 1/2 cup cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
- 1/4 teaspoon sesame seeds
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F.
- Combine olive oil, garlic and Italian seasoning in a medium bowl.
- Toss green beans in olive oil mixture and pour into a oven safe dish.
- Toss tomato halves on top of the green beans.
- Sprinkle with sesame seeds.
- Roast in the preheated oven for 20 minutes.
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What a perfect summer side dish. We just keep a small garden at the house, but homegrown is always so good. Luckily the Farmer’s Market and our CSA share help plug the holes! I am definitely serving this as soon as we have fresh beans and tomatoes!
This is such a fabulous fresh side dish. Putting it on our menu this weekend!
Such special memories!! I love the story behind certain foods and recipes. This looks great!
This is my fave way to eat green beans! Flavorful and crispy! Yum!
Oh my gosh. How I loved snapping beans and shelling peas with my grams! I’m always looking for new ways to serve fresh veggies other than just steamed. I’ll be trying this one for sure!