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Green Bean Casserole…Place a can of Progresso Cream of Mushroom soup in 
your greased baking dish/pan. Mix a generous Tbs. cornstarch into the 
cold soup. Add drained green beans-canned or cooked from frozen. Top 
with crumbled Frito-Lay FUNYONS (Imitation) Onion Rings, homemade onion 
rings, or sprinkle onion powder generously over soup/bean mix & top w/ 
crushed potato.
  Bake as usual, 350º for ~30 min, until bubbly.

If you are willing to change that green bean casserole recipe, a bit,
there are easier alternatives. I make my own "pseudo-gourmet" version.
No canned soup, no fried onion ring things. I make my own white wine,
mushroom sauce, instead of canned soup, using large slices of good
mushrooms (wine, broth, olive oil, butter, onions, thickened with a
cornstarch slurry, can add milk or cream if you need it white and
creamy, mix in some organic green beans. To top it, I frizzle thinly
sliced leeks in hot olive oil, until golden brown. I also toast sliced
almonds, and mix the two things together to top the casserole. Everyone
seems to love it, no complaints yet.

I have done this for a few years now and it turned out great.  I made 
my own gf cream of mushroom soup.  I cut up the onions and mixed them 
up in an egg batter.  You can also put spices in if you want.  Then I 
put them in the deep fryer that I have to make gf french fries.
If you don't have one of those, I highly recommend getting one.  They 
fry up just like onion
rings or an onion loaf.  You can then use those in the green been 
casserole recipe.  No one will know the difference.  Try not to eat all 
of them before you get them in the casserole like we do !

I recently read a recipe that called for Funyons (I think from Frito 
Lay?)
in place of the fried onions.  Sounds like a good idea.  I haven't yet 
tried
this - so far I have just skipped the onions on top and used cheese 
instead.

There is a batter recipe in Roben Ryberg's book.  It's awesome!  I use 
it every year!  I don't cut the onions too thin though.

I've used water chestnuts, or just plain corn flake crumbs (the gf ones 
in the can). Also, tried Classico Alfredo Sauce instead of the 
Progresso Cream of Mushroom soup and was very happy!

I loved this casserole and really missed it.  I tried a version using 
Progresso mushroom soup and just skipping the fried onions.  The only 
problem was this soup is much "richer" than Campbell's lower fat cream 
of mushroom and my sensitive gall bladder didn't react very well!

I use Frito Lay Funyons.....  I try to find the single serving size 
"canisters" that have them in the mini-size... and Viola!

  Some Asian markets sell Indian fried onions, but they sometimes are GF 
and sometimes not. They are also sometimes stale! If you can find GF 
good ones, that helps in a lot of recipes. But I don't depend on 
finding them.

I brown some roughly chopped onions in butter (frozen chopped onions 
will do if you thaw and drain them), crumble some potato chips, and add 
them all to my green bean casserole, using a little gf mushroom soup 
like Imagine brand. Then after it has cooked a bit, sprinkle more 
crumbled potato chips on the top and return to the oven just long 
enough to brown. This gives you the onion flavor and the crunchy 
topping and so far nobody has noticed the difference!

I don't know about the FF onions.  I'm too lazy to start making my 
own, last year I used GF bread crumbs on the top of my green bean 
casserole (mixed with melted margarine of course).  You could probably 
use cornflake crumbs as well.

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Thanks to everyone who responded.  I really appreciate it!!

Michelle
"DEACcat"
Sequim, WA

Diabetes
Epilepsy
Asthma
Celiac
  

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