Recipe: Green Beans with Sautéed Mushrooms & Tomatoes

I "invented" this recipe one day by randomly pulling  some ingredients out of my refridgerator and hoping for a miracle. It shockingly came out out delicious and has now been one of my "go-to" side dishes during the week. The best part about this is you can change the portion size to fit your family size or really just kind of wing it! Maybe if try some different veggies in it too! Fresh, healthy ingredients and a super easy recipe makes for one happy Mama!

Fresh Green Beans with Sautéed Mushrooms & Tomatoes

Ingredients:

1 pound of Fresh Green Beans, ends trimmed and cut into bite size pieces

1 8 ounce package of Baby Bella Mushrooms, sliced

1 dry-pint package of Grape Tomatoes, sliced in half

1/2 cup - 1 cup of Chicken Stock

3 tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce

2 tablespoons Soy Sauce

1 teaspoon Steak Seasoning (or any type of blended seasoning you might like)

Extra Virgin Olive Oil, or your preferred cooking oil

Sea Salt, for taste

Fresh Cracked Pepper, for taste

Directions:

Make sure all of your vegetables are prepared: green beans are trimmed and cut into bite size pieces, mushrooms are sliced and the tomatoes are sliced.

In a large sauté pan (preferably non-stick), put green beans in and just enough chicken stock to coat the bottom. You will be "cooking" the green beans in the chicken stock on medium-high heat, with a slight boil, until they have begin to soften. This usually takes 8-12 minutes.

Once they have softened slightly, remove them from the pan and drain them into a strainer, discarding the used chicken stock.

Return the pan to the stove and place the heat to medium high / high. You want your pan to get nice at hot. Drizzle a couple tablespoons of olive oil into the pan. Once the oil begins to noticably "pop," put your sliced mushrooms and tomatoes into the pan. You will hear a lot of "sizzling" sounds. This is good!! * Note: Mushrooms tend to absorb a lot of liquid so you may need to drizzle more oil on top of them if you think they are beginning to look too dry. *

Season the mushrooms and tomatoes with sea salt and fresh cracked pepper. Continue to sauté them for 5-7 minutes, until they have began to release liquids and get soft.

Once this happens, add in the green beans. Continue to cook on high heat, stirring occasionally you have noticed majority of the liquid in the pan is gone. The green beans will absorb a lot of the liquid.

Then, add in the Worcestershire sauce, the Soy Sauce and the steak seasoning. Mix well so that everything is incorporated.

Continue cooking for another 5-7 minutes, until the amount of liquid in the pan has reduced significantly. Serve immediately! 

* You can make this side dish ahead of time and keep it warm in the oven on an the warming seating or if you don't have that setting, then on a low heat, like 200 degrees. *

We love this recipe! It's tasty and healthy! Be sure to leave me comments if you try it and let me know what you think, of if you add your own spins to it! Enjoy!!

Stay healthy!

- Christine