Bright, crunchy, green beans add texture, colour and a vegetal sweetness. Grill them as part of a warm lentil salad, stir-fry them with pork and prawns, steam them in a bag of greens, or braise them nice and slow in Greek-style lamb shoulder and bean stew. Green beans can do no wrong.

Fillet steak with charred green beans and tahini

Louis Tikaram’s stir-fried snake beans with pork

Snapper curry with green beans and coriander

Chicken, radish and bean salad with tarragon dressing

Sunda’s lamb mapo tofu with green beans

Rainbow trout with almonds, bacon and green beans

Miso chicken and green beans with sesame

Trofie with potatoes, beans and pistachio pesto

Prawn and bean salad with preserved lemon dressing

The Summertown Aristologist’s spring salad with fresh curd

Christine Manfield’s soy-braised chicken with green bean sambal

Green bean salad with mint, fried shallot and lemon

Crisp pork belly stir-fry with snake beans and okra

Barramundi with braised green beans, dill and mint

Artichoke salad with green beans, egg and anchovy dressing

Martin Boetz’s Hawkesbury River school prawn and green bean salad

Greek-style lamb shoulder and bean stew

Green beans and peas with garlic and mint crème fraîche
