Southern Style Green Beans. Enjoy A Bold Flavor Tonight With Bush's Southern Pit Barbecue Grillin' Beans! Admittingly, the color of Southern-Style Green Beans isn't nearly as appealing as that of fresh green beans. But cook green beans low and slow in a broth flavored with bacon, and you'll go back for seconds and thirds.
My Southern Style Green Beans with Bacon will become a family favorite in your house too! This Southern Style Green Beans recipe is easy-peasy to put together and it makes a pot of beans that's meltingly tender and super delicious. The beans are cooked slowly for a long time with a bit of bacon and come out of the pot tasting, honestly, better than any veggie I've ever tried! You can have Southern Style Green Beans using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Southern Style Green Beans
- It's 4 cans of green beans.
- Prepare 1 of smoked Turkey leg.
- It's 3 of chicken bouillon cubes.
- It's 2 of Tblsp bacon grease.
- You need 1 of Tblsp butter.
- Prepare 3 of bay leaves.
- It's 1 tsp of garlic salt.
- It's 1 tsp of black pepper.
Southern Style Green Beans are made with fresh green beans cooked low and slow flavored with salty bacon. This traditional southern side is served on just about every table in the south! Home cooked vegetables are a staple in the south. Stir in the cooked bacon, green beans, potatoes, garlic, and chicken broth.
Southern Style Green Beans instructions
- Open canned beans and place into a pot and put heat on medium high.
- Add turkey leg and bring to a boil.
- Add the bouillon, bay leaves, bacon grease and butter and stir.
- While still boiling add garlic salt and black pepper then to a low simmer for 2 hours stirring occasionally and your done !! ENJOY 🥰💋💋💋.
- You can double the recipe or add garlic or onion and saute first which I normally do but did not have them on hand this time 💋.
This recipe can also be cooked in a crock pot, and simmered all day. If fresh green beans are not available, use frozen. Just good ol' Southern style green beans with FLAVA!! In large saucepan over medium heat cook bacon until almost completely brown. Put green beans in pot- if canned add juices, if frozen add water enough to see but not cover beans- cook on medium heat.