Green Beans with Lemon

Ingredients

• 1 pound haricots verts (thin French green beans) or regular green beans
• 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
• 2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh flat-leafed parsley leaves (wash and dry before chopping)
• 1 teaspoon freshly grated lemon zest
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Directions

Trim regular green beans if using and in a large saucepan of boiling salted water cook beans until crisp-tender (2 minutes for haricots verts or 3 to 4 minutes for regular green beans) and drain in a colander.

In a bowl toss beans with lemon juice, parsley, lemon zest, and season with salt and pepper