Green Bean Casserole

Green bean casserole

Green bean casserole is an American baked dish consisting primarily of green beans, cream of mushroom soup, and crisp fried onions. It was popularized in the United States from a recipe printed on a soup can starting in the 1950s.

Green bean

Green beans are young, unripe fruits of various cultivars of the common bean. Green beans are known by several common names, including French beans, string beans, and snap beans or simply "snaps".

Bean

A bean is the seed of plants in many genera of the legume family (Fabaceae) used as a vegetable for human consumption or animal feed. The seeds are sold fresh or preserved through drying (a pulse). Beans have been cultivated since the seventh millennium BCE in Thailand, and since the second millennium BCE in Europe and in Peru. Most beans, with the exception of peas, are summer crops. As legumes, the plants fix nitrogen and form seeds with a high protein content. They are produced on a scale of millions of tons annually in many countries, with India as the largest producer.

Casserole

A casserole is a kind of large, deep pan or bowl used for cooking a variety of dishes in the oven; it is also a category of foods cooked in such a vessel. To distinguish the two uses, the pan can be called a "casserole dish" or "casserole pan", whereas the food is simply "a casserole". The same pan is often used both for cooking and for serving.

green

Noun

1. The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.
2. A member of a green party; an environmentalist.

Adjective

1. Of a green hue.
2. Sickly, unwell.

bean

Noun

1. Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
2. The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean, or garbanzo bean).

Verb

1. To hit with a projectile, especially a deliberately aimed blow to the head.

casserole

Noun

1. A dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served.
2. Food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish.

Verb

1. To cook like, or as, a casserole; to stew.