Recipes: Slow Cooker Velvety Green Beans

These Greek-Inspired Velvety Green Beans cooked in the slow cooker will have you making them again and again. So Full Of Flavour and goodness, they’re an amazing accompaniment to any main dish or just on their own with a hunk of feta cheese and some fresh crusty bread.

You Will Need:

1 kilogram of fresh or frozen green/french beans

500 grams of passata

1 large onion, chopped into large pieces

1 large cup or mug of chicken stock

4 cloves of garlic, thickly sliced

METHOD:

Turn your slow cooker onto it’s saute setting (if you don’t have a slow cooker with a saute setting, you can combine all the ingredients into a good sized casserole dish and cook it in a preheated oven at 170 degrees for three hours), and put in a good glug of olive oil.

Add your onions, and use a spatula to keep them moving around the pan. We want them to soften but we don’t want any browning to occur.

Once they onions have softened down, you can tell if they fall part when you press the back of the spatula down on them, add your garlic. Keep everything moving in the slow cooker, making sure no browning of the garlic occurs again. 3 or 4 minutes shoujld do it.

Add your passata. Season with salt and pepper.

Add your green beans, and season once again.

Pour in your chicken stock, and mix everything together thoroughly.

Cook on the fast (approx 4 hours) setting for lovely velvety smooth green beans, or up it to the slow setting (approx 6 to 8 hours) for insanely smooth melt in your mouth green beans.

Serve with a hunk of feta cheese and some fresh, crusty bread.