Name: Green Bean Side Dish with Apple Cider and Thyme
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients: 8 ounces frozen green beans; 2 tablespoons unsalted butter; ¼ cup diced onion; ¾ cup chicken broth; ¼ cup apple cider*; 1½ teaspoons dried thyme; salt, (to taste)

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This apple cider green bean side dish is both sweet and savory and works great with roasted poultry. It’s easily made with chicken broth, onion, dried thyme and apple cider.

Green beans with thyme on a serving platter. — Green beans with a sweet and savory apple cider thyme sauce make a delicious side dish for poultry.

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Ingredients:

A few ingredient notes:

If apple cider is not available, you can substitute a good-quality apple juice.
You can use French-cut (thinly sliced) green beans or whole green beans for this recipe. (Whole green beans will take a little longer to steam.)

How to make it (overview with photos):

Steam frozen green beans until tender.
Saute diced onion in melted butter.
Add chicken broth, apple cider and reduce.
Stir in dried thyme and season to taste with salt.

Green beans and sauce being prepared in four steps. — Steamed green beans with apple cider thyme sauce is a quick side dish easily made in four simple steps.

How to serve it:

This dish goes very well with roasted poultry and makes a great side for a Thanksgiving dinner.

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Green Bean Side Dish with Apple Cider and Thyme

Nicole B.

These apple cider green beans make a quick and delicious side dish.

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Prep Time 5 mins

Cook Time 20 mins

Total Time 25 mins

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Servings

Calories (estimated) 174 kcal

Ingredients

Instructions

Bring a pot of water to a boil and steam the beans until tender (8 to 10 minutes).
While the beans are steaming, melt the butter in saucepan.
Add the onion and saute until translucent.
Add the broth and the apple cider.
Cook on high heat until the liquid is reduced to a thick and syrupy consistency (10 to 12 minutes).
Stir the thyme into the sauce, then season with salt to taste.
Toss the beans with the sauce and serve.

Notes

*If you don’t have apple cider on hand, you can substitute a good-quality apple juice.

Nutrition

Calories: 174kcal

Keyword apple cider green beans, green bean side dish

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