Roasted Green Beans with Creamy Gruyere Sauce and Bacon

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Wonderfully crisp tender Roasted Green Beans with Creamy Gruyere Sauce and Bacon are a fresh and easy, flavor exploding side dish perfect for dinner, entertaining and Thanksgiving!   

These cheesy green beans will make you fall in love with oven roasted green beans all over again AND they are ready in 15 minutes!  

Happy November, the month of the biggest foodie holiday of the year, Thanksgiving!  And it’s going to be here before we know it – are you ready?!   Whether you are enjoying a family Thanksgiving or a Friendsgiving, this epic feast is the time to bring your best side dish or dessert from your Mom’s famous pumpkin pie to Grandma’s famous stuffing to Aunt Joe’s famous cranberry sauce, because no matter who you celebrate with, it’s an opportunity to showcase what home means to you, because there’s #noflavorlikehome.  What’s YOUR favorite family recipe?

I’ve partnered with McCormick to create our very own online Friendsgiving, so we can celebrate all of our favorite family recipes together!  From McCormick’s Smoked Turkey, Cheesy Potato Casserole, and Thanksgiving Cranberry Deviled Eggs, McCormick knows how to throw a Friendsgiving.   Join McCormick’s online Friendsgiving dinner party by sharing a photo of your favorite recipe and use the hashtag #noflavorlikehome.  I can’t wait to see and read about YOUR family favorite recipe!

Now, for one of my family favorite recipes, Roasted Green Beans with Creamy Gruyere Sauce and Bacon AKA Thanksgiving side-dish domination.  Because really, we can only eat so much turkey, so to me, Thanksgiving is all about the sides.  This side.  This side with crisp tender green beans roasted to perfection with a little salt and pepper then smothered in a creamy Gruyere Sauce that’s bursting with flavor all topped with crispy bacon.  Hello Thanksgiving.

These Roasted Green Beans with Creamy Gruyere Sauce were born out of necessity.  You see, I was in charge of making the “green bean casserole” for Thanksgiving a few times as a young adult – and I made my grandma’s green bean casserole recipe that has been passed down for generations.  And while they were comforting, there is a reason they are only served as an obligatory Thanksgiving side and not throughout the year.

So years passed and I knew I wanted to reinvent the Green Bean Casserole.  The green beans still had to be creamy like Grandma’s (in this case creamy AND cheesy) and there still needed to be a crispy element like Grandma’s fried onions – just a little more sophisticated and palate pleasing.  Enter Roasted Green Beans with Creamy Gruyere Sauce and Bacon.  Enter the new green beans in town.  And I’ve been making them to satisfy Thanksgiving requests every year since.

The green beans themselves are infused with flavor by first tossing them with olive oil, salt and pepper then roasting until desired crisp tenderness, about 12-15 minutes.  I love roasting green beans because it is the absolute easiest way to prepare them and transforms ordinary green beans into an elegant side dish in minutes.

While our green beans are roasting, we make our easy yet utterly divine Creamy Gruyere Sauce in 5 MINUTES!  I really need a separate recipe post just for this elegant cheese sauce because it is AH-mazing on all sorts of veggies, and might just become your new favorite cheese sauce in the world.  There’s only one way to find out…

To make this Creamy Gruyere Sauce, melt some butter in a medium saucepan then sauté a shallot followed by garlic then stir in heavy cream.  Next, add layers and layers of subtle flavor with a splash of Dijon mustard, and a pinch of  McCormick® Dried Thyme, McCormick® Paprika, McCormick® Salt and McCormick® Pepper.  Increase heat to medium high and cook until sauce starts to thicken, about 2 minutes.  Remove from heat, and stir in mega creamy, sweet, slightly salty, nutty Gruyere cheese until melted followed by lemon juice.

Next, we smother our Roasted Green Beans with our Creamy Gruyere Sauce, add a generous Thanksgiving style amount of bacon and that’s it for one of the quickest, easiest side dishes of your Thanksgiving feast.  I won’t tell a soul.   Just sit back and prepare to be complimented by all partakers at your Thanksgiving.

Roasted Green Bean Casserole with Creamy Gruyere Sauce.  Aka the new Green Bean Casserole in town.

Looking for more Oven Roasted Vegetable Recipes?

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• Baked Parmesan Fingerling Potato Fries
• Roasted Broccolini (With Lemon and Garlic)
• Roasted Potatoes with Bacon and Parmesan
• Roasted Hasselback Sweet Potatoes
• Asian Roasted Butternut Squash and Cashews

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Roasted Green Beans with Creamy Gruyere Sauce

Wonderfully crisp tender Roasted Green Beans with Creamy Gruyere Sauce and Bacon are a fresh and easy, flavor exploding side dish perfect for dinner, entertaining and Thanksgiving!   They will make you fall in love with green beans all over again and are ready in 15 minutes!  

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Prep Time

15 minutes

Cook Time

12 minutes

Servings

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Ingredients

Roasted Green Beans

• 1 1/2 pounds green beans, trimmed
• 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon McCormick® Black Pepper

Creamy Gruyere Sauce

• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
• 1 shallot, minced
• 1-2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
• 1/4 tsp EACH McCormick® Paprika, McCormick® Dried Thyme
• 1/8 tsp EACH salt, McCormick® Black Pepper
• 1/4 cup finely grated Gruyere cheese
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice

Garnish

• 6 bacon slices, cooked and crumbled
• chopped parsley

Prep Time 15 minutes Cook Time 12 minutes Servings servings Ingredients Roasted Green Beans 1 1/2 pounds green beans, trimmed 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon McCormick® Black Pepper Creamy Gruyere Sauce 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 1 shallot, minced 1-2 garlic cloves, minced 1/2 cup heavy cream 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1/4 tsp EACH McCormick® Paprika, McCormick® Dried Thyme 1/8 tsp EACH salt, McCormick® Black Pepper 1/4 cup finely grated Gruyere cheese 1 teaspoon lemon juice Garnish 6 bacon slices, cooked and crumbled chopped parsley

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Instructions

Roasted Green Beans

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Line a large jelly roll pan with foil or line 2 smaller baking trays. Add green beans to pan then drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Toss until evenly coated then line green beans in a single layer.
2. Roast at 450 degrees F for 12-15 minutes (or until they reach desired tender crispness), stirring once halfway through.

Creamy Gruyere Sauce

1. Meanwhile, make Creamy Gruyere Sauce by melting butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add shallot and sauté for 1 1/2 minutes. Add garlic and sauté 30 seconds. Stir in cream, mustard and all seasonings.
2. Increase heat to medium high and cook until sauce starts to thicken, about 2 minutes. Off heat, stir in Gruyere cheese until melted followed by lemon juice. If sauce gets, too thick, stir in a little more heavy cream.
3. Add green beans to a large bowl and pour Gruyere Sauce on top. Add half of the bacon and toss until evenly coated. Top with remaining bacon. Garnish with parsley if desired.

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