Crispy Baked Green Bean Fries

Name: Crispy Baked Green Bean Fries
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 pound fresh green beans, washed and trimmed; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 1 teaspoon kosher salt; 1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs

ByHeather Tullos January 10, 2013January 26, 2020 January 26, 2020

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Crispy Baked Green Bean Fries are simple, roasted, the perfect amount of salty, and excellently crisp. If you need a good alternative to fries made with potatoes, this easy recipe is it!

This is a 4-ingredient, 15-minute, healthy recipe. Short and sweet (except sorta salty). It's an oldie but a goody, and one I fall back on when I need a quick side dish, and is one of my very favorites when green beans are in season.

There are versions of this recipe that call for lots of dredging and flour and eggs, but this one keeps it super simple.

What do you need to make green bean fries?

fresh green beans
olive oil
kosher salt
seasoned bread crumbs

If you need this side dish to be vegan, opt for bread crumbs without Parmesan cheese.

I tend to look for every opportunity

Can I make green bean fries in the air fryer?

Yes yes double yes.

I love my air fryer for all sorts of things, but it really does wonderful crispy good things to green beans. If you go the air fryer route with your Crispy Green Bean Fries, 370°F is the right temperature and 7-9 minutes will give you the best crisp.

Is this recipe good in a pinch?

Completely. I know from experience.

Because initially, when I developed these easy green bean fries, actually sharing them got put on the back-burner so-to-speak. What had happened was...

Evan and Chad were rough-housing. Because that's what boys do, even the adult kind, apparently. I was ten minutes from putting my favorite veggie sliders on the table, homework was done, and it was shaping up to be a pretty nice evening.

Until there was a crash.

And my laptop fell victim to the rough-housing.I was pretty flipping upset, to put it mildly.

So I topped off my very nice glass of red wine, threw these green beans in the oven to get good and crispy, put dinner on the table, and straight up sulked for the rest of the evening.

Evan was pretty distressed because it was his crazy running away that dragged my laptop sideways into the floor. Chad felt really extra bad because it was his crazy chasing that provoked Evan's crazy running... but ultimately it was a pretty freak accident and wasn't anyone's fault in particular.

I had to give Evan a big squeeze to calm his little worries.

And the whole ordeal gave me one more reason to add to my steadily growing list of reasons for why we need to move someplace bigger and better.

Fortunately, I live with a pretty clever and technology-savvy fix-it kinda guy. He ordered a new screen and life resumed, and all the green bean fries got eaten, with only a short interlude of me working with a completely rigged setup involving my laptop being plugged into the desktop monitor while I sit all sideways and weird in this kitchen chair at the desk and try to type.

Need a few more quick and easy green bean recipes?

Try the Best Easy 5 Bean Salad - it calls for canned green beans, wax beans, garbanzo beans, and kidney beans, and is really simple to make ahead.

Summer Vegetable Soup can be made in the slow cooker or on the stove top and you can use fresh OR frozen green beans.

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