Warm Green Been Salad With Pine Nuts And Basil

Don’t bear trouble, use it. Take whatever happens – justice and injustice, pleasure and pain, compliment and criticism – take it up into the purpose of your life and make something out of it. Turn it into testimony. Don’t explain evil, exploit evil; make it serve you. Just as the Lotus flower reaches down and takes up the mud and mire into the purposes of its life and produces the lotus flower out of them, so you are to take whatever happens and make something out of it.

E. Stanley Jones

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains	Jewish		6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2	lb	Slender green beans, trimmed
2	T	Olive oil
1/4	c	Pine nuts, about 1 1/2
		ounces
2		Garlic cloves, minced
18		Fresh basil leaves, chopped

INSTRUCTIONS

Source: Bon Appetit June 1998  Cook beans in largepot of boiling salted
water until crisp-tender,  about 5 minutes. Drain. Place beans in bowl
of ice water to cool,  Drain well. Pat dry with paper towels. (Can be
made 1 day ahead. Wrap  in paper towels and refrigerate.)  Heat oil in
heavy large skillet over medium-low heat. Add pine nuts  and saute
until light brown, about 6 minutes. Add garlic; stir 1  minuted. Add
green beans to skillet; saute until heated through,  about 5 minutes.
Stir in basil. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer  to bowl and
serve.  Posted to JEWISH-FOOD digest by "Deborah Altman"
<daltman@itmassoc.com> on Sep 8, 1998, converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 105 Calories From Fat: 78 Total Fat: 9g Cholesterol: 2.5mg Sodium: 29mg Potassium: 133.2mg Carbohydrates: 3.9g Fiber: <1g Sugar: 3.1g Protein: 3g

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