Oven Roasted Green Beans with Garlic Brown Butter

Quick and Easy - This roasted string beans with garlic dish comes together in about 30 minutes with no expert techniques or special kitchen tools needed. Grab your cutting board and knife, a bowl, a skillet, and a sheet pan. That's it!

Everyday Ingredients - And you'll need just a few ingredients that you probably have on hand in the fridge and pantry already. Nothing you can't pronounce or have to search for at a specialty store but the taste definitely gives gourmet.

Bomb Flavor - Fresh green beans are in season during the warmer months but trust me when I say that this recipe is worth turning on the oven for! Bright green beans with nutty, buttery, toasted garlicky goodness, subtle sweetness, and a lil kick of heat! The garlic gets all buttery and the butter gets garlicky--just fabulous.

More faves that will make everyone eat their veggies include my smoky braised collard greens, roasted baby bok choy, crispy sweet potato fries, and roast curry carrots!

Fresh Green Beans will provide the best results in this recipe because we want them roasted to perfection, aka, tender with a bit of bite or crispness to them. Using canned green beans or frozen green beans will result in an overly soft texture.

Butter for making the brown butter, of course! Use unsalted butter for browning. Salted butter can brown just fine, however, the salt tends to concentrate in clusters and throw off the flavor of the final dish and we don't want that.

Fresh Garlic cooks quickly in the brown butter to infuse it with flavor. We're also using garlic powder during the roasting stage, so don't substitute with that! You can use pre-prepped garlic but I don't recommend using the jarred minced garlic because it adds liquid that we don't need here.

Spices - I roast the green beans garlic powder, onion, powder, sea salt, and black pepper then finish with crushed red pepper or red pepper flakes. Feel free to switch things up and add your own flair. Cayenne pepper can work in place of the red pepper, for example.

Oil - Use a neutral oil with a smoke point of at least 400 degrees farenheit for roasting the green beans. I like olive oil here but you could also try avocado oil or grape seed oil.

Step One: Wash and dry the green beans then cut or snip off the ends.

Step Two: Toss the beans in oil and spices.

Pro Tip #1: Using kitchen shears makes quick work of removing green bean ends or you can use a good ol' fashioned knife and cutting board or pick the ends off by hand, which is what I grew up doing in my grandma's kitchen.

Step Three: Spread the green beans out onto a sheet pan and roast until cooked through.

Step Four: While the green beans bake, brown the butter, adding the garlic in the last couple of minutes.

Pro Tip #2: These green beans are ready when they have a glossy and wrinkly appearance. Their color will be a bit muted and they will have some brown sear marks from where they were in contact with the pan.

Pro Tip #3: Use a light colored skillet or saucepan so you can more easily see when the butter has browned! It will emit a nutty, toasted smell and turn golden brown when ready.