Great use for pole beans that are a little past tender. http://mindfultable.blogspot.com/2009/07/transforming-green-beans-into-pate.html
Vegetable Walnut Pâté
1 Tbs vegetable oil
1/2 cup minced onion
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups green beans, chopped
2 hard boiled eggs
1/3 cup chopped walnuts
1 Tbs fresh lemon juice
1 Tbs mayonnaise
1 Tbs nutritional yeast
1/4 cup parsley, chopped
black pepper to taste
Heat the oil in skillet over medium heat and sauté the onions until they begin to brown (about 10 minutes). Add the chopped green beans and saute until tender and very slightly browned(another 10 minutes or so). Remove from heat.
When the beans and onions are cooled, combine them in a food processor with the rest of the ingredients and grind them into a paste. Chill and serve.
When I serve this as a pâté, I like to top it with fresh fried onions. Basically, slice up half an onion and fry the slices over medium-high heat until they're brown and crispy.
If you don't ahve nutritional yeast, you can skip it. It's harder to skip the parsley. Also don't overdo the mayonnaise or lemon juice.
Left out the mayonnaise and it was very good. A little cayenne pepper is good too.
The original Moosewood recipe had fewer ingredients, just cooked green beans, walnuts, sautéed onion, hard-boiled eggs, 1-2 T mayonnaise, 1-2 T dry white wine, salt and pepper.
