This recipe is by Great British Chefs dot com (I rounded some ingredients slightly). It’s called Charred Green Beans with Sauté Potatoes, Chermoula, and Fried Almonds. I didn’t call it Charred Green Beans because my green beans were kind of hallow (maybe old?) so when I took mine to char they got all soggy. This recipe is tasty and is a more epicurean version of green beans almandine. Here you fry up the almonds in oil and use the infused almond oil to fry up the potatoes and then fry up the green beans. To make things more interesting you toss the green beans in chermoula (a Moroccan pesto made with preserved lemon). Serving size is difficult to judge. For me this makes a little more than 4 side servings. You will also have extra chermoula leftover that would taste amazing in a tuna salad or on top of grilled fish.

Ingredients for around 5 servings

1 cup almonds

3 Tablespoons olive oil

pinch sea salt

pinch sugar

2 potatoes – peeled (original recipe suggest a dice cut but I cut mine into long thin fry shapes ….do whatever. you want)

flaky sea salt

black pepper

1 lb green beans – trimmed

3 Tablespoons chermoula

1 cup cilantro chopped

1/2 cup parsley leaves chopped

2 garlic cloves – ground to paste

1 preserved lemon (just the rind scrape out the segments and white from rind as much as you can) – chopped fine

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil

1/4 teaspoon paprika

1/4 teaspoon cumin

1/4 teaspoon cayenne

1/2 lemon – just the fresh squeezed juice

Directions

Make chermoula and set to the side. In a large bowl combine the cilantro, parsley, garlic, preserved lemon, oil, salt, paprika, cumin, cayenne, and lemon juice. Set to the side

Fry up the almonds. Put the oil in a fry pan on medium high heat. Fry up the almonds till they turn light brown. Remove almonds without removing the oil and drain on towel lined pan. Sprinkle the almonds with sugar and salt and seed to the side.

Fry the potatoes till they are golden brown. Drain and then season with salt and pepper and set to the side.

Fry up the green beans to desired wrinkle…..Drain green beans when done. Add the green beans to the big bowl with the potatoes and chermoula and toss. Top with the almonds and serve and enjoy!

A special THANKS!!!!!!! To Greet British Chefs so I could come up with these amazing green beans!