These 23 vegetable sides give that produce a clear job, from honey-roasted carrots and lemony green beans to smoky squash, creamy spinach, and bacon-fried corn. Green beans cook with olive oil, onion, garlic, sliced potato, tomatoes, parsley, salt, and black pepper in the Greek fasolakia lathera style. Serve it when a market bag of green beans needs a side that can hold its own next to a simple main. Get the Recipe: Roasted Green Beans with Almonds and LemonMexican Black BeansMexican Black Beans. Kidney beans, garbanzo beans, and green beans are mixed with red onion and parsley, then dressed with apple cider vinegar, olive oil, honey, and Dijon mustard.