Simple side dishes are where it’s at, and roasting vegetables brings out their best flavor. Simple Sheet Pan Green Beans go with most any main dish, to round out your meal!
I’m not much for complicated side dishes, so will often just roast veggies, throw together a salad, or bake potatoes. It’s easy to change up the flavor profile of your roasted veggies by swapping out seasonings or mixing up different combinations, but here’s how I roasted up a pan of Simple Sheet Pan Green Beans recently.
Keep things simple by throwing a pan of veggies in the oven while you’re working on your main dish, or to roast for the last 20 minutes or so of the main meal. Start with this basic oven roasted green beans recipe, and then you can change up the seasonings to fit your own tastes.
Simple Sheet Pan Green Beans
Ingredients
1 lb fresh green beans, trimmed
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper (optional; omit if sensitive to spice)
Sea salt, to taste
2 Tbsp shredded Parmesan cheese
Directions
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Rinse green beans and trim off the ends.
Place green beans on a rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle them with olive oil and season with thyme, garlic powder, crushed red pepper, and sea salt.
Stir until the green beans are nicely coated with oil and spices, then spread them out in a single layer on the baking sheet.
Roast the seasoned green beans at 425 degrees for 20 minutes.
Sprinkle with shredded Parmesan, stir, and serve.
Super seasoned, sufficiently salty, and slightly spicy
These green beans are super seasoned and flavorful! (Omit the crushed red pepper if you’re sensitive to spice.) The touch of Parmesan at the end adds the perfect salty tang, too.
Try this simple vegetable side dish when green beans are in season at your local produce store: The fresher the green bean, the more fantastic the final product. I prefer roasting fresh green beans over serving frozen or canned, simply because of the difference in texture. Canned has its place in stews and soups, but invest in fresh for roasting; it really makes a difference.
Simple sheet pan green beans are both vegetarian and gluten free.
Simple Sheet Pan Green Beans, printable recipe
Simple Sheet Pan Green Beans
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 lb fresh green beans trimmed
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp thyme
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp crushed red pepper optional; omit if sensitive to spice
- Sea salt to taste
- 2 Tbsp shredded Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Rinse green beans and trim off the ends.
- Place green beans on a rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle them with olive oil and season with thyme, garlic powder, crushed red pepper, and sea salt.
- Stir until the green beans are nicely coated with oil and spices, then spread them out in a single layer on the baking sheet.
- Roast the seasoned green beans at 425 degrees for 20 minutes.
- Sprinkle with shredded Parmesan, stir, and serve.
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