Elevate Sizzling Green Beans With Miso Butter and Fuyu Persimmons

This is a lovely side dish for the season. Diane Rossen Worthington/TNS

Sweet slender green beans (called haricot verts) are the foundation of this seriously simple holiday vegetable dish. Don’t worry if you can’t find haricot verts; just look for fresh green beans that are not too thick.

I have made my share of green bean dishes, from cold green bean salads to green beans with caramelized lemon or onions. With the following recipe, you have just a few ingredients that can partially be made ahead.

The Ingredients

Green beans: I like to blanch green beans in boiling water to take the raw taste out of them and then finish them in a hot pan just before serving. You can cook the green beans up to six hours ahead of time and keep them refrigerated in paper towels until ready for the final cooking. Bring them to room temperature before finishing the cooking.