Braised Half-Runner Beans with Potatoes cooks in the Instant Pot with tips on removing strings from the fresh snap beans.
Braised Half-Runner Beans with Potatoes
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
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Braised Half-Runner Beans with Potatoes is my recipe of the day for the blogging event Farmer’s Market Week. On Monday I posted a recipe for Blackberry Cornmeal Cobbler. With another recipes today and will be posting again on Friday. Along with a few of my blogging friends. So stay tuned!
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Half-runner beans, or snap beans are fresh beans with need the strings pulled. You accomplish this but cutting partway into the bean on the inner curve. Then pulling the string down the outside. Then around the corner and back down the rest of the inside curve.
If you don’t, your beans will be stricken with the vegetable version of dental floss.
Of course you can chop off the ends and use a vegetable peeler. It will likely trim away more bean that you want. The only other option is to buy or grow stringless beans. But- the snap beans have a much better flavor, in my opinion.
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Savory Recipes
- Balsamic Cucumber Salad from Jolene’s Recipe Journal
- Braised Half-Runner Beans with Potatoes (Instant Pot) from Palatable Pastime
- Caprese Mac and Cheese from Cheese Curd In Paradise
- Grilled Vegetable Platter with Lemon Feta Dip from Books n’ Cooks
- Hasselback Potatoes from Blogghetti
- Kale Caesar Salad from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
- Mexican Corn Salad from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
- Sheet Pan Okra from Magical Ingredients
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- Bourbon Apple Butter from Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks
- Lavender Peach Shortcakes with Honey Whipped Cream from The Spiffy Cookie
- Fluffy Peach Waffles from Red Cottage Chronicles
- The Best Cherry Pie from Jen Around the World
- Zucchini Bread with Nutmeg from Our Good Life
Braised Half-Runner Beans with Potatoes
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Braised Half-Runner Beans with Potatoes
Braised Half-Runners with Potatoes
Equipment
- 1 Instant Pot or Electric Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- 1 pound fresh half-runner green beans with strings
- 2 tablespoons bacon grease
- 1 medium onion chopped
- 4 ounces diced ham
- 1 teaspoon chopped garlic
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
Trim half-runners:
- Half-runners need strings removed. To do this effectively, follow the natural curvature of the bean. Cut into the bean on the inside curve at the top or stem end without cutting all the way through and pull the string down the outside edge without pulling it off.
- Cut again on the bottom so you can pull the string around the corner and up the inside back to the top.
- Done correctly, you should have a one-piece string connected from both sides. Discard the strings.
Cook beans:
- Saute the onions in the bacon grease on the saute setting of the instant pot until softened then shut off.
- Add the remaining ingredients and the lid, setting it locked and sealed.
- Cook at pressure, on high, manual setting for 10 minutes.
- Use the quick release, opening when all the steam has dissipated.
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This looks like total comfort food to me. The beans looks tender and the potatoes hearty. Such a delicious looking dish.
They look good. I just need to know where did you buy the half runner string beans. I love them. My mother God rest her soul..but I grew up on them. My dad God rest his soul too..we had a garden and we ate everything out of garden but we had grown half runner green beans. Thank you. Brenda cray
Sometimes I can find them at a grocery store, but in summer months at the farmer’s market’s. I saw them last week at the store, must be coming up from the south. I hope you see them soon!