The delicious and creamy classic green bean casserole made from scratch and topped with homemade fried onions.
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Keyword classic green bean casserole, green bean casserole, green bean casserole from scratch
Prep Time 30 minutesminutes
Cook Time 15 minutesminutes
Total Time 45 minutesminutes
Servings 8servings
Calories 208kcal
Author Lisa Bass
Ingredients
Fried Onions:
1/2cupeinkorn flour
2teaspoonssalt
1/4teaspoongarlic powder
1/4teaspoononion powder
Fresh ground pepper
1largeonionsliced thin
Coconut oil for fryingAbout 1/2 inch in the skillet
Green Beans And Cream Sauce:
1lbgreen beans
2tablespoonsbutter
16ouncesportobello mushroomssliced
4tablespoonseinkorn flour
1cuphomemade chicken broth
1cupcream
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Boil some fresh green beans for 5 minutes and then drain and set aside.
While the green beans are cooking, make the fried onions.
Make The Fried Onions:
Preheat a cast iron skillet.
Thinly slice onions. The thinner you slice them the crispier they get.
Add coconut oil to cast iron skillet.
To a bowl add flour, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, and fresh ground pepper. Mix together well.
Place sliced onion into flour mixture and toss until well coated.
Shake off any excess flour and place into hot oil. Toss with tongs until brown on all sides. This takes about one minute.
Set aside.
Make The Cream Sauce:
Heat up cast iron skillet and add butter.
Slice up some mushrooms and add to skillet.
Saute the butter and mushrooms together.
Sprinkle on einkorn flour and mix.
Pour in broth and simmer for a 5 minutes.
Add salt and heavy cream; whisk until the mixture thickens.
Put Together And Bake:
Pour the sauce over the green beans and top with fried onions.
Add fried onions on top and bake for 15 minutes.
Notes
Slice the onions really thin, so they get extra crispy when you fry them.
Don’t add the onions until the coconut oil is nice and hot. I like to do one test onion to make sure.
If you don’t have coconut oil to fry the onions, you can easily substitute it with avocado oil. I would not use olive oil because it has a much lower smoke point, and the temperature of the oil needs to be pretty hot to fry.
Chicken broth is my go-to. Turkey broth would also work. I’ve also used beef broth, or even water with great success. You may just need to adjust the amount salt.