Not Your Mama's Green Bean Casserole

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This dish was ok. It reminded me of cream of mushrooom green bean casserole. I think next time i'll just stick to the cream of mushroom can and just add some extra mushrooms to the dish. Saves time this way. But over all the dish wasnt to bad.

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This is such a great recipe if you want to stray from the typical green bean casserole with the canned everything! INCLUDING the french fried onions! I have made this a couple times now and did the onions per the recipe. I just turned the temp down to 450 and rotated them about every 5-10 minutes. Works for me. I personally thing subbing the canned onions would ruin the point of this recipe.

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What a wholesome, flavorful and crunchy dish! A perfect Thanksgiving side. The only variations were 2 tips I stole from Paula Deen which were using French's fried onions and sprinkling some grated cheddar cheese and broiling the last 5-7 minutes for a nice crunchy surface. The cream sauce in this recipe with the nutmeg, mushroom...etc. is tonssss better than the packaged cream of mushroom soup suggested in most recipes. This will be my go to sidedish every thanksgiving. Well done Alton!

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Simply the best! By far much better than the canned soup and frozen/canned green beans standby. I decided to go with the canned fried onions after reading about the difficulty a lot of people were having. However, mid way through the cooking process I realized I forgot to purchase them. I added some onion powder and a bit of Maggi seasoning and it was delicious! One of my favorite sides.

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This was a MUCH BETTER version of the standard green bean casserole. I gave it 4 stars only because I had to try 4 batches of onions to get them right and the last try was successful when I put them at 425 degrees and three rotations of about 8 minutes. These are very easy to mess up. Additionally, I had to double the recipe and the sauce didn't thicken very well - but, this could've been because of the doubling of the portions. Anyways, DELICIOUS and I will make it again.

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WOW! This dish was amazingly good, everyone thoroughly enjoyed this. I read most of the reviews and decided to stick to the recipe as written. A few people stated they experienced burning their onions. I heeded their warning, followed Alton's directions and kept an eye on them while baking, I didn't have a problem and they turned out perfect. Thank you Alton for this wonderful recipe.

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I will never make green casserole from canned beans and soup again!! This has amazing favor and color, so beautiful and tasty!! I will also be making this throughout the year - not just for Thanksgiving any more. Thank you SO much for this delicious recipe. I also used Frenchs prepared onions...may try frying my own next time, but Frenchs worked as well.

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It was a lot more work that the standard Green bean casserole, but well worth the extra effort. I doubled the recipe so we would have plenty of leftovers.

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Made this for Thanksgiving. It's obviously a lot more work that the usual rubbery frozen french beans and can of mushroom soup that we all grew up on, but it's worth it.

I made the onions the night before, when I had time to baby sit them and things weren't so hectic in the kitchen. I sliced my onions about 1/4" thick, tossed them in the flour/panko mixture, then into my Breville toaster oven set at 375dF on convection. I did them in 3 small batches, total cook time was 25 minutes each batch. Be prepared to pull out some as they get dark. Be patient, be vigilant, they are worth it!

Something I messed up on: make sure you buy more than a pound of fresh beans, you will lose about 10-15% to trimming the ends off. Have all the pan ingredients prepped in advance (mise en place!, as it goes quickly. 12 oz of mushrooms is too much, 8 oz would be plenty IMO, I think there's a little too much cream too.

I'll definitely make this again, it's going in my recipe box.

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I cheated on the onions. I put diced onions in with the mushrooms and added French's french fried onions on the top during the last 15 minutes. The fresh green beans are soooo much better than canned or frozen.