Side dishes · Vegetable sides
Garlic green beans
The ten-minute green side that goes with everything: beans blistered in a hot pan, garlic at the end, lemon over the top. Crisp-tender is the whole assignment.
- Time
- 13 min (5 prep + 8 cook)
- Servings
- 4
- Per serving
- 90 kcal
- Protein
- 3 g
Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.
Ingredients
- 1 lb green snap beans, trimmed500 g
- 1 1/2 tbsp olive oil20 g
- 3 cloves garlic, sliced12 g
- 1/2 tsp salt3 g
- a pinch red pepper flakes (optional)1 g
- 1/2, juiced lemon15 g
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Steps
- Get the oil properly hot and add the beans in as close to one layer as you can. Let them sit and blister before you stir.
- Toss every minute or so for 5–6 minutes with a splash of water near the end — the steam finishes the insides while the pan keeps the char.
- Garlic in for the last 90 seconds so it toasts without burning.
- Salt, chili flakes, lemon. Serve hot or room temperature.
Why this score
solidly fillingLow energy density — a lot of food for the calories.
Three routes to fullness — one is enough
What pulls it down
Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 360 kcal goes into the pot, 551 g of ingredients comes out as ~480 g of food → 75 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.
Per
- Calories
- 75
- Protein
- (10%)
- 2 g
- Fat
- (49%)
- 4 g
- Carbohydrates
- (41%)
- 8 g
- of which sugar
- 4 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 249 mg
Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.
Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.
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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.