Recipe: Green Beans with Fingerling Potatoes

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Today’s recipe is from Bridgette A. Lacy’s Sunday Dinner. Lacy is a journalist who writes about food for The Independent Weekly and the North Carolina Arts Council. She also served as a longtime features and food writer for the Raleigh News & Observer. Follow her on Twitter @bridgettealacy.

Lacy’s recipe features classic southern staples—green beans and potatoes—in a hearty and flavorful dish. It’s sure to bring the whole family together around the table!

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Recipe: Green Beans with Fingerling Potatoes

This Sunday supper staple is one of my favorites. I have fond memories of sitting at the red Formica table with my grandmother as we snapped the ends off the beans. Lots of conversation and laughter was exchanged between Grandma and me. My family normally cooked the green beans with white potatoes. Recently, during a visit to my mother’s house in Washington, D.C., she made this southern side with fingerling potatoes. My family loves this starch. My mother always says, “We are Virginians. We are potato people.” So she loads the dish with potatoes so the leftovers are not just the green beans. And don’t skimp on the butter, which really intensifies that good flavor of the green beans and potatoes.

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: Savor the South Sampler

Servings: 6 servings

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 lbs. green beans fresh
• 10-11 fingerling potatoes
• 3 cups chicken broth
• 1/2 tbsp. Herbs de Provence
• salt and black pepper to taste
• 2-3 pats salted butter

Instructions

• Rinse the green beans, snap off the ends, and break the beans into bite-sized pieces. Place the green beans and potatoes in a large pot and add the chicken broth.
• Cover the pot and cook the vegetables on medium-high heat for 30 minutes, periodically stirring them with a slotted spoon. Add the Herbs de Provence and season with salt and pepper.
• Cook for 10 more minutes or until the beans and potatoes are tender. Transfer to a serving dish and add the butter.

Notes

From Sunday Dinner: a Savor the South® cookbook by Bridgette A. Lacy. Copyright © 2015 by Bridgette A. Lacy.