Pan-Fried Asparagus and Green Beans with Bacon, toasted almonds, fresh thyme, and rosemary finished with a heavy amount of grated parmesan cheese. A super easy side dish to serve up any day of the week to accompany your main. This dish comes together in minutes and makes for a tasty way to serve up those greens.

Sides are important too. Its where you get all those important nutrients that we often miss out on eating. I totally get it. It’s hard to consistently eat vegetables and cook them in a way that you can actually enjoy them without being super boring. These are something to get a little exited about.

Bacon of course makes everything a little bit better. Especially green veggies. But I didn’t want to take away from the asparagus and beans so there are only a few slices of bacon in here and its chopped up pretty small as to not take away from those veggies. This dish starts off by blanching the asparagus and beans- which means they go in a bath of boiling water for a few minutes to get them nice and bright green and immediately after take a plunge in a cold bath filled with ice and cold water to stop the cooking process. Let them completely cool in the bath before returning to pan.

All in one pan, the rest comes together. Since bacon needs time to render and crisp up, I start off by adding it to the hot pan to let it cook down to where its almost fully cooked. Then toss in those almonds so that they can cook in a little bit of fat thats in the pan and get all toasty. The last step is to add the asparagus and beans to the pan along with the seasoning and cook until everything is nice and warm. Finish it off by dusting a generous amount of grated parmesan cheese overtop and let the family dig in.

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Pan-Fried Asparagus and Green beans with bacon

Blanched asparagus and beans sautéed with bacon, almonds, thyme and rosemary finished with a generous amount of shaved parmesan cheese.

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time15 minutes mins

Course: Side Dish

Keyword: asparagus, bacon, green beans, Healthy, quick, sides

Servings: 4 people

Ingredients

• 1/2 bunch asparagus ends trimmed
• 2 handfuls green beans ends trimmed
• 4 slices bacon, thick cut chopped
• 1/3 cup almond slivers
• 1 tbsp thyme, removed from stem
• 1 tbsp rosemary, finely chopped
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• kosher or sea salt to season
• ground pepper to season
• parmesan cheese to garnish

Instructions

• Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Blanch asparagus and beans for 2 minutes, remove and place in an ice bath.
• Heat a large pan over medium heat. Cook bacon until mostly cooked through. Add the almonds, toasting for 1 minute . Add olive oil and asparagus and beans. Cook stirring occasionally for 5 minutes. Season with salt, pepper, thyme, and rosemary.
• To serve: transfer to a serving dish and season generously with fresh parmesan cheese. Enjoy!