Fresh green beans are a perfect side dish to brighten any dinner plate, but they can be tricky to cook. Even trickier to infuse with just the right flavors. With these garlic teriyaki green beans, you get perfectly tender beans every time that are infused with the perfect blend of Asian flavors making all of our side dish dreams come true.

I can’t get enough of fresh veggies. There’s something soooo satisfying about the crunch they make. I like them so much, I usually prefer them raw or very simply seasoned.

I was iffy when the hubs began insisting I try this recipe he’d seen. But, what the hubs wants the hubs gets. Haha.

Yeah right, but in reality he rarely begs or even asks for a specific thing for supper so I despite my internal reservations, I jumped at the chance to do it for him.

I just didn’t think I’d actually like it. Asian-style green beans just didn’t sound like my kind of thing.

I wish I’d had a camera to record his looks over dinner. First, the look on his face when he tasted them and confirmed they were everything he’d thought they’d be.

Second, the look of smug satisfaction directed my way across the table as I wolfed my own serving down. What can I say? The man knows me.

He also knows food. And he was spot on with this recipe. I should have known better to doubt him. I hate being told, ‘I told you so,’ but for once I was happily wrong.

Serve these garlic teriyaki green beans over rice for an awesome Asian-style vegetarian option, or serve them as a satisfying side with pork or chicken.