Baked Green Beans With Mushrooms & Pine Nuts

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 lb green beans, snipped but left whole
• 1/2 lb mushroom, cleaned and thinly sliced
• 1/2 cup pine nuts, toasted
• 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon margarine or 1 tablespoon lite olive oil
• 3 tablespoons shallots, finely chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• 6 tablespoons madeira wine (substitute with medium sherry or apple juice)
• salt & pepper

Recipe

• 1 sauté the mushrooms & shallots in the oil (butter) for a minute or two, sprinkle in the thyme line a baking dish with foil (use enough so you will be able to close over top of the beans).
• 2 pour the madeira into the bottom of the foil lined dish, add beans, top with mushroom mixture.
• 3 seal the foil.
• 4 bake in 375°f oven for approx 30 minutes (adjust time to your liking of crispness). open foil and sprinkle with toasted pine nuts.