Old-Fashioned Seasoned Green Beans
Greens beans are an easy and economical side dish that I serve often with my meals. One of our favorite ways of eating them is seasoned with bacon, which gives them a delicious smoky flavor.
This is the way my mom made green beans as I was growing up, and it’s the same way I still make them today. The secret is in the long, slow cooking. They just don’t taste as savory and delicious if you shorten the cooking time.
Old-Fashioned Seasoned Green Beans
Ingredients
- 1-10 oz bag frozen green beans (Use fresh if you have them, 1 lb. and increase water to 5 cups)
- 2 cups water
- 2 slices bacon , cooked and crumbled (Reserve bacon grease)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Directions
- Place beans into a medium pot and add water, bacon, bacon grease and salt.
- Bring beans to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 40 to 45 minutes, stirring occasionally. (If using fresh beans, increase cooking time to 2 hours.) If all the water evaporates before they finish cooking the full 40 to 45 minutes, add about 1/4 cup more water, and lower the heat. You want most of the water to be gone by the end of the cooking time though.
- Taste and adjust seasonings. Serve hot.
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april
April is a dedicated wife and mother of five. She resides in Southern Indiana, along with her husband Joe and their daughter Melissa, and enjoys the quite life on their 3 acre homestead. Since finding out that she has several food allergies, and is gluten intolerant, her recipes have turned from old-fashioned Southern favorites, to Paleo and Primal foods. Still just as delicious as the foods she was raised on, but healthier! Follow along as she blogs about her adventures in frugal, grain-free and refined sugar-free cooking, gardening, and household tips. April is also the owner and writer of The Secret Recipe Club, the fun Secret Santa of the food blog world.
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These look yummy! Green beans have always been my fave.. and with bacon.. how could you go wrong??
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