Club 55 Haricots Verts

This dish is ultimately a terrible idea: it adds fat and removes flavor compared to simply microwaved hericot vert.  The sour cream / lemon dressing masks the nice nuttiness of hericot vert, but doesn’t add enough flavor to compensate.  The Parmesan (presumably to add salt) seems simply unrelated to the rest of the dish.  My verdict: innocuous, but definitely not worth even the modest effort involved.  You’re better off just serving the hericot vert plain.

I had last minute dinner guests. Stuck for a side veg I recalled todays show and pulled out the ingredents. Everyone loved them Thanks.

I substituted microwaveable steamer green beans and this turned out fantastic ! Thanks for the great side dish.

In my family, we are what’d you call haricots verts fiends: sometimes we just eat them plain, but ever since we saw this great recipe we use this on occasion and enjoy it.

a couple notes:

be careful how much and what part of the parmesan you use. If you grate your own then use the softer parts of the wheel/wedge — it’s a lighter flavor and makes the green beans (that’s really what they are) taste . And always go light!!! — you can add more cheese and/or the harder/more flavorful parts of the cheese to the beans if you like later. The dairy definitely won’t overcome the beans that way.

to Michelle, if your sour cream is curdled when the beans weren’t (as you say) hot, then A) you had spoiled or nearly-spoiled sour cream or B) the beans were too cold and couldn’t liquify the sour cream. My beans are always scalding hot and steaming when they come out of the micromave — they instantly liquify the sour cream.

Didn’t you think it was odd that a pound of beans (which were STEAMING in the episode) were lukewarm for you and couldn’t liquify a measly 2 tablespoons of sour cream when again (in the episode) the cream was liquified on contact???

I wouldn’t go so far as to call this disgusting, but it wasn’t really very good. I mixed the sour cream and lemon juice together before adding to the beans, then added that mixture off the fire, and I had no curdling. For me though, the flavors just weren’t all that good. The flavor of the beans was sort of lost in all the dairy. Definitely not a repeat recipe for me.

I made this awhile back. I saw her make it again today and decided to write a review. Can I say this is the nastiest thing ever. The sour cream curdled and the beans weren’t even that hot. Maybe it would be better served cold or room temperature. It sounded like a great idea. Don’t even bother trying this one. It is a waste of time and ingredients. But then again most of her recipes are a waste… if they can even be called recipes.