Garlic Green Beans With Smokey Coconut Flakes

Method

For the coconut flakes, mix the ingredients together in a bowl, ensuring you cover the coconut flakes. Spread them out on a baking tray and place in the oven at 180 degrees. Keep an eye on them as they burn quickly, and take them out as soon as they are crisp, not burnt. Leave to one side.

Heat oil in a pan on medium heat, add sliced red onions, reason with salt and black pepper and cook for 5-10 minutes until onions brown and soften. The goal is for them to start to caramelise before adding in the rest of the ingredients.

Add garlic and cook for a minute until they soften then add in green beans. Mix to combine with onions and garlic. Place a lid on the pan and allow the green beans to cook for around 5 minutes. Remove lid and mix, season with vegan butter(optional) salt and black pepper and cook for another few minutes. Don’t over cook the greens! You want them still vibrant in colour with a very slight bite to them.

When there is just a few minutes of cooking time left, add spring greens, nutritional yeast and lemon/vinegar and mix. Taste to adjust seasoning. Once greens have wilted remove from heat and serve with the smokey coconut flakes.

Ingredients

Garlic Green Beans

1 tbsp olive oil

1 red onion, finely sliced

4 cloves of garlic, finely sliced

Salt and black pepper

500g green beans, trimmed

1-2 tablespoons vegan butter (OPTIONAL)

3 tbsp nutritional yeast

1 large bunch of spring greens or kale or Swiss chard

2 tbsp fresh lemon juice or 1 tbsp cider vinegar/balsamic vinegar

1 tbsp soy sauce

Coconut flakes

2 cups of coconut flakes

1 tbsp olive oil

2 tbsp soy sauce

1 tsp smoked paprika

1-2 tbsp maple syrup

1 tsp liquid smoke

1 pinch sea salt