Chef Akane's Recipe Counter — Recipe 6: Green Bean Casserole, Page 8
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Akane, in quilted oven mitts, slides the white baking dish onto the rack of the cream oven. Caption: "STEP 6. Bake 15 minutes, until the sauce bubbles at the edges." Through the glowing oven, the casserole steams and bubbles at the edges of the dish. Caption: "Bubbling edges and a steaming center mean it is hot all the way through." Akane scatters the remaining crispy shallots over the top from a small bowl. Caption: "Scatter the rest of the shallots on top and bake 5 minutes more." Akane smiles and raises one oven-mitted hand. Caption: "Why: added at the end, the topping stays crisp instead of soaking in."
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Wearing oven mitts, Akane slides the white baking dish into her countertop oven, the casserole bubbles behind the glass, she scatters crispy shallots on top, and smiles holding up a mitt.
About this chapter
Holiday season is coming, and green bean casserole is the top trending Thanksgiving recipe on Google. On a quiet November afternoon Akane does a practice run and makes it fully from scratch in her small kitchen: green beans blanched bright and crisp, shallots fried golden, mushrooms browned in butter and folded into a silky cream sauce with a dash of soy sauce, then baked in her countertop oven until bubbling and crowned with the crispy shallots. Captions walk the reader through every amount, heat setting and timing so it can be made at home, ending with Akane at her little table, doing some very thorough research on the topping.