Easy Sourdough Green Bean Casserole

This Easy Sourdough Green Bean Casserole is inspired by the Campbell’s Version and a comfort food but, without process ingredients.  

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WHY A SOURDOUGH CASSEROLE

• Casseroles are a smart meal for time management. Casseroles have been around for thousands or years and became popular in the 1800’s. A casserole can consist of many ingredients including the benefits of sourdough.
• A Casseroles is filled with so much flavor with a creamy rich flavor and usually include rice, noodles, potatoes and/or vegetables.
• This Sourdough Green Bean Casserole for Dinner is yummy, pair it with a salad, a roast or roasted turkey and dinner is served!
• Green Bean Casserole is a great side dish to serve with Thanksgiving Dinner.

Is Sourdough Green Bean Casserole Healthy?

Sourdough has many health benefits, filled with many great benefits and an way to grow yeast to rise breads.

A Sourdough starter develops from microscopic wild yeast and bacteria that is present in the air.

Probiotics are found in sourdough starter that are live microbes that have health benefits that grow naturally within the environment.

Sourdough helps to relegate metabolism, helps relieve allergies, cancer protection and balances the immune system along with reducing inflammation.

Onions are strong in antioxidants and filled with numerous anticancer agents. Red, white, green and yellow onions help lower blood pressure along with lower cholesterol.

Green Beans are low calorie and filled with antioxidants along with Vitamin C.

Easy to grow green beans are loved by everyone; including children.

Load with Fiber serving and eating green bean casserole provides a serving that is needed daily.

Mushrooms are a super food filled with Vitamin D and B vitamins resulting in more energy and hair and skin support.

History about the Classic Green Bean Casserole

Green Bean Casserole is a traditional side dish of all American Thanksgiving Meal, creator of Campbell’s.

Campbells’ Cream of Mushrooms Condensed Soup has it’s highest sales during the Thanksgiving season.

Dorcas Reilly, a woman that work at Campbell’s, invented the beloved side dish and was honored by the National Invertor Hall of Fame.

Green Beans is the number one favorite vegetable among many homes.

HOW TO MAKE AN EASY SOURDOUGH STARTER?

In a room temperature glass container mix one cup of all purpose organic unbleached flour (any flour of choice will work but, organic and unbeach it best) with 1 cup of filtered water.

Mix flour and water thoroughly, until it feels like a thick paste such as pancake batter. A wooden spoon to mix works the best in my opinion.

Cover with a tea towel or cheese cloth, and keep in a warm place around seventy degrees.

Twelve hour later remove a half cup of sourdough and discard. You can save the sourdough discard recipe by baking in any of my discard cookie or muffin recipes.

Use the sourdough discard in this green bean casserole to enrich the flavor.

Feed the sourdough starter discard to your livestock such as feeding the chicken or pigs.

Fed with additional 1/2 cup of all purpose organic unbleached flour and 1/2 cup of filter water. Repeat this process for five days. On day six and seven fed every twenty four hour. Your starter should have bubbles and the top will look foam-like.

Cutting Techniques Used to Make the Green Bean Casserole

Slicing is cutting food into desire thickness. Slice your Onions and mushrooms in this recipe to even thickness. The green beans in this recipe will be slice on the ends and in one inch length.

Mincing is a techniques the chops food into very fine pieces. Mince your garlic for this green bean casserole.

Dicing is cutting your food in half inch or smaller cubes. Dice your mushrooms for this casserole recipe.

Easy Sourdough Green Bean Casserole Recipe

Green Bean Casserole Ingredients

• 3 cups of olive oil
• 1/2 cup of sourdough starter; freshly fed
• 1 large yellow onion, sliced
• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• Salt and pepper to taste
• One garlic clove; minced
• 2 pounds fresh green beans, slice ends and in one inch pieces
• ¼ cup of unsalted butter
• One cup of organic mushrooms, sliced and diced
• 1 ½ cup of vegetable broth
• 1 cup whole raw or organic milk

Directions on How to Make this Sourdough Green Bean Casserole

First, preheat oven to 400 degrees.  In a large cast iron skillet heat olive oil over medium heat.  Take onion and toss in 1 ¼ cup of flour, and place in skillet, brown each side.  Season sliced onions with salt and pepper and let them drain from extra grease on a plate lined with paper towel.  In a pot boil water and cook green beans for six minutes, drain and set aside.  

Now, In another cast iron skillet, heat butter and cook garlic and mushrooms for ten minutes until tender.  

Season mushrooms with salt and pepper and add remaining flour from onions plus flour not used.  Gradually to mushrooms add broth, then milk in between.  Season once again, mushroom mixture and cook for about five minutes until will combine and sauce is thick.  

Next, add your sourdough starter and give a good stir. At this point you can place in the refrigerator overnight on counter for an hour to ferment, the longer the ferment the better. Finally, add green beans to mushrooms sauce and coat, place in a baking dish or cast-iron skillet and bake for twenty minutes.  Top with crispy onions and bake for additional 5 minutes!

Chef Tip

You can make your sourdough green bean casserole without sourdough starter.

Sourdough Starter just enhances the flavor and gives healthy probiotics.

You can substitute this casserole with canned or frozen green beans.

Prepare this Sourdough Green Bean Casserole the night before; just do not add the fried onions!

Finally, Let the green bean Casserole come to room temperature before baking.

Delicious and a Amazing Comfort Food; This Sourdough Green Bean Casserole will serve 8 people.

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