These easy Roasted Green Beans are loaded with garlic and lemon and roasted to perfection. They are simple enough for busy weeknights but delicious enough for holidays too!
Recipe ingredients:
Step-by-step instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. In a large bowl, toss together beans, olive oil, garlic, lemon juice, and salt to taste. I like at least 1/2 teaspoon salt, sometime I do a full teaspoon.
- Bake until browned in some places but still crisp, about 20 to 25 minutes. Serve immediately.
Recipe tips:
- This recipe works perfectly for edamame, sugar snap peas, haricots verts, or Romano beans.
- To prepare your beans, snap off the stem ends by hand, or use kitchen scissors to snip off the stem ends. If your beans have them, remove any tough strings that run along the length of the beans. There’s no need to trim off the tails.
Recipe variations and substitutions:
- Cheese: add shavings of Parmesan or Pecorino cheese to your sheet pan for the final few minutes of roasting.
- Bacon: roast beans and top with crumbled, cooked bacon and red pepper flakes.
- Nuts: toss a handful of roasted slivered almonds onto the platter once the beans are served.
- Mushrooms: include some shiitake mushrooms or smaller button mushrooms in the sheet pan; mushrooms and green beans are incredible (and so healthy) together.
- Cherry tomatoes: halved or quartered cherry toms get sweet when you oven roast them. Add a drizzle of balsamic vinegar and stand back!
- Carrots: get the carrots started before you add the beans—see my recipe for Roasted Carrots for the details.
Other tasty roasted vegetables:
- Roasted broccoli with parmesan
- Roasted asparagus
- Roasted carrots
- Roasted root vegetables
- Roasted butternut squash
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Roasted Green Beans Recipe
These easy Roasted Green Beans are loaded with garlic and lemon and roasted to perfection. They are simple enough for busy weeknights but delicious enough for holidays too!
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Servings: 8 servings
Calories: 109kcal
Ingredients
- 2 pounds green beans trimmed
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice from 1 lemon (see notes)
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Adjust an oven rack to the middle position and preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with foil for easy cleanup.
- In a large bowl, add green beans, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, and salt to taste and pepper to taste (I like at least 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper; sometimes I do a little more).
- Transfer to prepared baking sheet. Roast until lightly browned in some places but still crispy, about 20 to 25 minutes.
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Notes
- The zest of one lemon (about 1 teaspoon) can be added with the lemon juice. Just zest the lemon before you cut it to squeeze it.
Nutrition
Serving: 0.5cup | Calories: 109kcal | Carbohydrates: 11g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 8mg | Potassium: 289mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 782IU | Vitamin C: 29mg | Calcium: 54mg | Iron: 1mg
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Description at the top implies 10 minute’s roasting time, total time is given as 13 minutes, yet detailed instructions say cook 15-25 min. At 400 degrees, is it closer to 10 min or 25 min?
Hi Linda, I made the green beans over the weekend. I really think the beans are perfect after 20 minutes in the oven. My cooking assistant thought she might leave them in for another 5 minutes, but we both gobbled them up. It was like eating French fries, they are so good. I had forgotten how tasty they are! Anyway, I fixed up the post. I hope this is helpful. thank you for your question and sorry for the confusing recipe. -Meggan
Hi Linda, I’m so sorry about that. At some point I went back and adjusted the recipe to be “15 to 25 minutes” but I failed to update the cook time. I will go fix that now. I am going to make them again this weekend and see how long it takes! I’m guessing it’s 15 minutes in the oven. Thanks! -Meggan
I love roasted green beans, this recipe is so simple! I make these for meal prep all the time.
My go-to recipe after I pick all the green beans from my garden. So great with just a little bit of lemon and salt! Sometimes I add parmesan too….
These were great!
Glad you liked them, thanks Angie!
Ohh! Love green beans. I’d also try it with asparagus.
I have a crowd coming over for dinner tomorrow and I just got a basket of green beans at the farmers market for our side. This recipe made me so happy! It looks so easy and I don’t have to worry about another pot on the stovetop. Thanks!
Hooray Diane, thank you so much! Sometimes you need space in your oven, sometimes you need fewer pots on the stove. Glad this one worked out for you. :)
I’m a sucker for any vegetable that’s oven roasted. I was just saying I don’t care if it’s hot out– I’m roasting vegetables!! This looks so simple and the flavors are perfect. Gorgeous.
I really love this recipe, Meggan. I truly believe that good cooking is as much about good ideas as it is good recipes, and this is both a good idea AND a good recipe!
I’m going to try this this week … probably with my classic baked salmon!
The perfect summertime side! I’m always looking for ways to make my veggies more interesting–thanks for the inspiration!
I don’t like green beans, but I do love them roasted and that changed it for me. I can’t believe I’d been eating them wrong all my life, love this recipe.
I love roasted veggies! I don’t think I’ve tried doing green beans yet, but once I get back to where I have an oven I will be trying them. Great idea!