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Miso-roasted French beans and cherry tomatoes

by Jeanne Horak on November 26, 2015 9 Comments in Gluten-free, Vegan, Vegetable side dishes, Vegetarian

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Type  the phrase “change is good” into Google and you will get a staggering 31 million results. The world is awash with motivational speakers, self-help books and management consultants who are constantly telling us that change is good; that resistance to change must be overcome at all costs; and that change is the one constant in human existence.  We cheer ourselves up with little sayings like “a change is as good as a holiday”. But if change is so damn wonderful, why do we have to spend so much time and effort talking about it, managing it and telling ourselves how wonderful it is?

The truth is that change is hard for most of us. I came across a wonderful metaphor recently, asking how you would feel if, just before leaving work for the day, you were told that every single traffic rule had changed while you had been at work.  The side of the road on which you drive had changed; red lights no longer meant stop, and all the speed limits had changed. How would that make you feel? Anxious? Stressed?  Fearful of what might happen on your journey home?  I’m sure most people would feel a mixture of all these things, rather than a thrill of excitement at the challenge of an entirely new driving system! And that is how most change hits us: out of the blue.  The late night phone call conveying the loss of a loved one. The call to the boss’s office that ends in redundancy. The dreaded phrase “we have to talk” from a partner. All of these things can change your life in an instant, and we are almost always ill-prepared for them. Just like with the traffic example, change brings uncertainty,  fear of the unknown and anxiety.  No wonder, then, that so many people are highly resistant to change.

 

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My father was a great example of this and loathed change for most of his adult life (I can only assume that he was a little different when he was younger, changing study directions, universities, cities and even wives!). When he found a restaurant that he liked, this instantly  became the ONLY restaurant that we could go to for family celebrations (because, as he liked to say, “at least you know what you’re going to get”).  He read the same newspapers for decades, despite  constantly deriding them as being “nothing more than rags”. He would eat the same foods for various meals (croissants on a Saturday morning; soup for dinner on Sunday) for decades. He also managed to live in the same house  for almost exactly 40 years until his death – an almost unheard of feat in an increasingly mobile generation – refusing to leave even after my mother was largely confined to a wheelchair and could not get up and down the many stairs unaided.  With the benefit of hindsight and adult eyes, I can see that his lifelong resistance to change was at best, comical and at worst, positively harmful. And yet… I can feel that same resistance to change inside myself, passed on to me by my father like his brown eyes.

Almost every big change I have made in my life has filled me with anxiety.  Every time I move house, (hint: not too often, given my resistance to change!) I spend the weeks before the move torturing myself by thinking of all the aspects of the old house that I love and how I will never be able to enjoy these things again when I move – and by extension, I will obviously never be happy anywhere else again. Every job change (again, not too many!) is accompanied by self-doubt and general misery.  And I remember spending the entire day before leaving South Africa for the UK back in 2000 weeping on the shoulders of  various friends and then crying on the phone to my mom all the way through passport control and security at Johannesburg International airport.  It’s a miracle I ever made the journey! I like to think that I have become less anti-change over the years but I still can’t say I love change or seek it out. But some changes can’t be avoided, including the inexorable progression of the seasons, particularly noticeable here in the UK when the end of October heralds the end of summer time and the advent of 15h30 sunsets. Summer lingered this year and up to three weeks ago we were still harvesting the last of the summer tomatoes from Nick’s greenhouse.  But just like that, the weather turned a little Arctic and suddenly summer salads were rather less appealing, so I had to think of another way to use the last of the summer produce. This colourful and flavour-packed dish is great for using up end-of-season cherry tomatoes that are perhaps squishily past their prime or a bit too thick-skinned.  It’s a perfect marriage of yielding tomatoes, still-crunchy beans, and an umami-rich dressing – and I guarantee it will make even the most change-resistant among you feel a little more cheerful about the changing of the seasons.

 

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If you love French beans, you should also have a look at

  • my boereboontjies – a traditional South African dish of French beans and mashed potato
  • my broad bean, French bean and mozzarella salad
  • Kevin’s green beans in a creamy mushroom sauce
  • Kalyn’s stir-fried green beans with lemon, Parmesan and pine-nuts

 

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Miso-roasted French beans and cherry tomatoes
 
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Prep time
10 mins
Cook time
25 mins
Total time
35 mins
 
This quick and easy recipe for miso-roasted French beans with cherry tomatoes is simple to make but packed with umami flavour. It makes a perfect festive season side-dish!
Author: Jeanne Horak-Druiff
Recipe type: Vegetable side dish
Serves: 2
Ingredients
  • 300g French beans, trimmed
  • about 12 cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 1 Tbsp sunflower oil
  • 1 Tbsp white miso paste
  • 1 Tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tsp mirin
  • 1 tsp soy sauce (use tamari if you need it to be gluten-free)
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat the oven to 200C.  Whisk the oil, miso paste, vinegar, mirin and soy sauce together to make a smooth sauce.
  2. Place the beans in a large bowl, add two thirds of the dressing and toss to coat well.  Turn the beans out onto a shallow ovenproof dish in a single layer and roast for about 15 minutes.
  3. Place the tomatoes and the rest of the dressing into the same large bowl and toss to coat.  Scatter them over the beans in the oven, and use a heat-proof spatula to stir the vegetables together and distribute them evenly.
  4. Roast for another 10 minutes or until the tomatoes start to collapse, then remove from the oven and serve immediately.
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  1. Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy says

    November 26, 2015 at 1:16 pm

    I struggle with change quite a lot, as I am set in my ways and I have routines that I link, but I also like to push myself out of my comfort zone. It’s a strange mix.

    I have never used miso like this, but I love green beans, so it sounds good to me.

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  2. kellie@foodtoglow says

    November 26, 2015 at 8:40 pm

    I love Japanese flavours but haven’t done anything like this with beans. This is a great, umami-tastic and wonderfully easy side dish for any time of year. 🙂 As for change, I know that as I have aged I have perhaps become better with change. I decided a few years back to start saying “yes” more and doing things that scared me. So far, so good. Best done with a good pitch of common sense of course. I still get anxious with some change, but it is usually the innocuous stuff for some reason.

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  3. Krista says

    November 27, 2015 at 8:45 am

    This dish sounds fantastic, Jeanne. And the timing is perfect as my beans will be producing soon, just in time to go with the ripening tomatoes. 🙂 Change is a funny thing. Sometimes it’s wonderful and others, well, it’s rather devastating.

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  4. Sally - My Custard Pie says

    November 28, 2015 at 2:20 pm

    Have white miso – handy while daughter is in her vegan phase. Had not thought of using it with beans. Will give it a try

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  5. Andrew says

    November 30, 2015 at 3:07 pm

    I wonder if people become less open to change as they get older. They become settled in their routine, fearful almost of anything that upsets the balance and routine, the comfort. Perhaps though that by the time you get old there are few new experiences to embrace, so anything that harbours change is viewed as danger?

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  6. Fede Pastabites says

    November 30, 2015 at 3:52 pm

    What an intriguing combination! I love french beans, but I never find ‘local’ ones so end up never eating any…

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  7. Alida @My Little Italian Kitchen says

    December 1, 2015 at 11:11 am

    Love the look of these vegetables. I have never used miso paste although I have had it in restaurants before and I rather like it! Nice easy and tasty recipe.

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  8. Meeta says

    December 2, 2015 at 9:41 am

    Simply yet such umami flavor! Change – I guess is supposed to make us evolve and if we do not accept it there will be no innovation, no steps forward – even when it sometimes we have to take two step backwards first. As I grow older I find it harder to accept change as easily as I did earlier. But at the same time I hate being stagnant and need to change to move to feel like I am achieving something. xox

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