How To Cook String Beans

I am going to show you today how to cook string beans, and to show you, I am going to prepare them. I am just going to really chop and tail them. Now, as we speak, I have got my pan of hot water and I have got a bowl of ice cold water.

Now, this is entirely up to you, I mean, if you want to have these smaller but, you know, I normally cut them quite rusty and these are actually fantastic in a salad so cooking them, refreshing them for a salad olive oil or garlic dressing as a salad is absolutely beautiful. Today, like I said, in boiling hot water for literally under a minute and just cooking through, now, I always say this, every or the majority of vegetables that are green should be plunged in boiling water and what I do is I chuck some salt to optimise the water as well, it raises the temperature. So, here we go, straighten the pan, boiling water, get that salt in there, oxidise that water, bring up the temperature, we are going to get that in a minute.

So I am going to have my pan ready for it to be shocked into cold water to keep that nice green color and a few “chefy” ideas. I mean, if you are going to reheat them - pan, butter, olive oil - get with the pan and once you have put in that oil, butter, salt and pepper, you can take them out within seconds. So we will give that a minute in the pan and then we will come back to it.

Coming back to our string beans, we will just get one out of the pan there, a lovely green color, really happy, absolutely crispy, I am happy with that. Now, straight to the cold water, like I said, that shocks them, stops them from cooking, nice cold water there and here we are. |How about adding some string beans to your next meal? Don't know how? No need to worry, pull up a chair as Chef Paul Ellis shows you how to prepare your beans in this short yet informative video.