Green bean casserole recipe without french fried onions

Q: What can I use instead of French fried onions on green bean casserole?

If you dont have French Fried Onions you can substitute (for a topping): Dried bread crumbs mixed with butter work well for a vegetable or casserole topping. OR - Use crushed potato chips. OR - Crushed Ritz© crackers add a nice buttery flavor.

Q: How do you keep green bean casserole from getting soggy?

If your topping is soggy, its probably because the casserole itself is too wet. Before you add your topping try to thicken the casserole up with flour or cornstarch so the topping sits on top and doesnt sink to the bottom.

Low carb healthier from scratch green bean casserole recipe without canned mushroom sauce and fried onions.

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🫘 Ingredients
🔪 How to make this Green Bean Casserole?
🥣 Serving
🍱 Storing
What can I use instead of French fried onions on green bean casserole?
How do you keep green bean casserole from getting soggy?
Do you cover green bean casserole when baking?
Is green bean casserole better with canned or fresh?

This is a non-traditional green bean casserole, prepared without mushroom and fried onions.

You can use fresh or frozen green beans to prepare this dish from scratch.

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🫘 Ingredients
🔪 How to make this Green Bean Casserole?
🥣 Serving
🍱 Storing
💭 FAQs
📖 Recipe
💬 Comments

🫘 Ingredients

The vegetable casserole is a low carb vegetarian dish. Here is a list of ingredients:

green Beans
eggs
cream (Heavy or table cream)
black pepper
salt
Italian seasoning
Dijon mustard
cheese
olive oil

🔪 How to make this Green Bean Casserole?

Here is an overview for you, so that you get an idea how the casserole dish comes together.

The complete recipe with US and metric measurements is located at the bottom of the post in the recipe card.

Step 1

Boil Green Beans for a few minutes (blanch) and place into ice water (so that they retain green color and to stop the cooking process).

Step 2

Combine in bowl eggs, cream, seasoning and mustard.

Spread green beans in a casserole dish and pour egg-cream mixture over green beans.

Step 3

Sprinkle cheese and olive oil over that and bake until cooked through and golden.

🥣 Serving

This non-traditional green bean casserole can be served as a side dish on a holiday or as a vegetarian weekday main course meal.

We love it with a light green salad or a shredded carrot salad.

You can serve it a meat main course meal as a side too, such as chicken marsala or pan-fried trout or any other fish.

Garlic Bread or a homemade from-scratch bread is a great addition too.

🍱 Storing

Store leftovers in an airtight container in your fridge for up to 4-5 days.

Or cover your casserole dish with a cling film and store that way in the fridge but consume soon.

To warm up, simply place into your oven and heat up until warm enough to serve.

You can also freeze your green bean casserole!

In that case, prepare the recipe as per instructions but don't bake it in the oven.

Instead place the casserole dish into your freezer and freeze hard.

To thaw, place into the fridge over night.

You can place it into the oven frozen too but add another 20-30 mins to the cooking time or watch it cook and test if it's cooked through and done.

💭 FAQs

Why do you call it a non-traditional green bean casserole?

Some of you will be accustomed to the cream of mushroom fried onion variation of green bean casserole served for thanksgiving. Well, this recipe is an alternative to that and I wanted it to be clear in the title.

How to make this dish healthy and vegan?

Use coconut cream and skip the cheese or use vegan grated cheese.

What green beans can I use?

You can use fresh green beans or frozen. Both need to be blanched. You can use canned green beans too if you are used to using those, I don't have experience using canned green beans.

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To blanch (cook short) Green Beans

▢ 12 ounce Green Beans fresh or frozen, *see Notes
▢ Water to cover beans
▢ 1 Teaspoon Salt

Prep your green beans if they are fresh by rinsing and cutting off ends. If frozen thaw them.
Keep a pot to boil with water and salt. Place green beans into boiling water and blanch (cook for short time) for about 5 minutes.
Take out green beans and place them into ice water to stop the cooking process and to help retain the green color. Keep aside
Preheat oven to 400° F./ 200° C.
Prepare the filling in a bowl. Combine eggs, cream, dijon mustard, salt, black pepper, Italian seasoning, and half quantity of the cheese together.
Spread green beans in a casserole dish and pour filling over the green beans.
Sprinkle remaining cheese over the green beans in the casserole and the olive oil
Bake at 400° F./ 200° C for 20-15 mins until golden.
Serve hot

You can choose to use fresh green beans, frozen or canned beans.
I used heavy cream in the video recipe, you can use table cream too
I used a blend of cheddar and parmesan. You can use whatever cheese you like. Use half of the quantity for the cream egg blend and the other half to top the green bean casserole.

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13" Rectangular Baking Dish

Nutrition Facts

Non-Traditional Green Bean Casserole Recipe

Amount Per Serving

Calories 276 Calories from Fat 225

% Daily Value*

Fat 25g38%

Saturated Fat 14g70%

Cholesterol 129mg43%

Sodium 766mg32%

Potassium 199mg6%

Carbohydrates 6g2%

Fiber 2g8%

Sugar 2g2%

Protein 9g18%

Vitamin A 1256IU25%

Vitamin C 7mg8%

Calcium 204mg20%

Iron 1mg6%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

What can I use instead of French fried onions on green bean casserole?

If you don't have French Fried Onions you can substitute (for a topping): Dried bread crumbs mixed with butter work well for a vegetable or casserole topping. OR - Use crushed potato chips. OR - Crushed Ritz© crackers add a nice buttery flavor.

How do you keep green bean casserole from getting soggy?

If your topping is soggy, it's probably because the casserole itself is too wet. Before you add your topping try to thicken the casserole up with flour or cornstarch so the topping sits on top and doesn't sink to the bottom.

Do you cover green bean casserole when baking?

Stir in green beans and sprinkle French-fried onions on top. Bake in the preheated oven, uncovered, until hot and bubbly in the center, about 30 to 40 minutes.

Is green bean casserole better with canned or fresh?

To kick things up a notch, I also use fresh green beans rather than canned ones because it gives the casserole the most refreshing flavor that's just to die for. That isn't to say that you can't use canned or frozen, if that's easier for you then go right on ahead!