Green Beans - Cheesy And Garlicky!

The weather is cooling down (slightly) as we've passed the Autumn equinox now, so I'm finally putting up this post.  Green beans are available year-round, but Brussels sprouts are an autumn/wintry veg., so it's perfect timing for this dish, which I actually made six months ago in late Winter!

So, after the cyclone, we've now got flooding in western Queensland - the worst in recorded history.  The poor farmers have lost huge numbers of their livestock so meat prices are going to escalate here.  Ah well, Mr P. and I don't really eat meat these days ...  but I am wondering how the price of butter and milk will go, though I believe it is mostly beef cattle out west.  Those poor farmers knowing all their livestock and pets would drown as they themselves were evacuated.

apropos of nothing :=), here we are at the NGV in Melbourne
 for the Yayoi Kusama exhibition

Serves 3-4 as a side dish:

ingredients:

500g./18 oz of green beans, or a mix of your fave green veg.  see Notes

2-3 Tbs EV olive oil

sea salt and black pepper, to taste - maybe 1/2 tsp salt and a dozen grinds of pepper

2-3 garlic cloves, chopped roughly

parmesan, freshly grated - as much as you please - maybe up to 50g./1.8 oz? but go for it! 

Cayenne pepper, chilli flakes, cummin seeds, or dukkah - a good sprinkling, but it's up to you how much  (optional)

3-4 Tbs panko breadcrumbs (optional)  (Use gluten-free if needed)

green beans!

feeling seedy? yep :=)

Method:

Turn on your oven to 210C/410F

Prep your chosen veg. - i.e.  green beans topped and tailed, Brussels sprouts trimmed and halved

Place the veg. into a large mixing bowl; add the olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic and parmesan and give it all a really good toss

Now grab a baking paper-lined tray, throw on the veg., and sprinkle over the extras (cayenne, etc) and the panko if using

Into the oven for 15 minutes, or till well-roasted, tender, and a wee bit charred

A great side dish with whatever you fancy!

Notes:

I used a mix of green beans and Brussels sprouts but you can use whatever veg. you like - cauliflower, broccoli and so on

ingredients gathered

vegetables prepped

in goes the cheese et al

give it a good mix

and pour out onto a lined baking tray

and roasted at 210C/410F for 15 mins.

I served it with battered fish fillets

who doesn't love a Brussels sprout? 
Lots of folk apparently :)  but we do!