Old Fashioned Green Beans- Southern Style
Craving for some old-fashioned comfort food? Look no further! Our Recipe for southern green beans, cooked with bacon and simmered in the pot till tender, will bring back memories of grandma’s kitchen. These country style green beans, seasoned with love, symbolize traditional cooking at its best. Remember, good food is all the sweeter when shared with good friends. Easy Southern style green beans recipe for old fashioned green beans.
Can’t help but miss grandma’s home cooking? We’ve got the next best thing! Our Southern Style Green Beans with bacon will transport you back in time. Made with fresh ingredients and lots of love, just like how grandma used to do it. Whether you prefer to use a crockpot or a Dutch oven, this recipe guarantees a heartwarming meal every time. Make these Southern Style Green Beans with bacon and seasonings and feel like you traveled back to grandma’s house. This is an old-fashioned green bean recipe that we grew up eating.
A few weeks ago, the hubby and I were traveling thru Gail, Texas and found a quaint place to have lunch. And it wasn’t hard to choose where to eat, there are only two business’ in the whole County (Borden County, Texas. And we were lucky enough to pick the one cafe with the best personality, I guess the odds were like 50/50. Anyway, everyone inside were local people and they all chimed in with suggestions as to what we should order. Seriously they did. Since chicken fried steak was one of their favorites, the hubby decided to try it and it was served with fresh Southern Green Beans.
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You know those country style green beans, like the ones we grew up with. And cooked with bacon grease and loaded with bacon and some amazing flavors? The ones like your mama or grandmama made and they were delicious? And after that fun experience, we both craved more of those green beans. So it became a challenge to recreate that pot of green beans. And we did it!
Southern Green Beans Recipe:
Ingredients:
- 8 slices of bacon, chopped
- 2 ½ pounds of fresh green beans, ends snapped
- 32 ounces of Chicken stock
- 2 cups water
- 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 Tablespoon Butter
Equipment Needed:
- Large crockpot or large dutch oven
- Colander
How to make these Country Style Green Beans:
Crockpot Instructions for southern style green beans:
- Add green beans to a large crockpot.
- Add chopped bacon, chicken stock, water, seasoned salt, black pepper, and garlic powder.
- Stir to combine
- Cook on high for 5-6 hours until green beans are tender
- Drain beans and add butter. Stir in butter gently and serve
Stove Top Instructions for southern green beans:
These old fashioned Green Beans are loaded with flavors. And they bring back some great memories of our childhood and hopefully, your’s also. Did you know that green beans are packed with essential nutrients like vitamin C, dietary fiber, folate, and vitamin K? Not just that, when you make our Southern style green beans recipe, you’re combining health and taste in one delightful dish! Perfect for your next family dinner or gathering. So, who’s up for a healthy yet scrumptious meal?
Other Down Home Recipes
- Old Fashioned Potato Patties
- Texas Pinto Beans
- Classic Meatloaf
- Salmon Patties
- Southern Sweet Potato Pie
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Ingredients
- 8 Slices bacon chopped
- 2 ½ lbs fresh green beans ends snapped
- 1 32 ounce container chicken stock
- 2 cups water
- 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon butter
Instructions
CrockPot Instructions
- Add green beans to a large crockpot, add chopped bacon, chicken stock, water, seasoned salt, black pepper, and garlic powder.
- Cook on high for 5-6 hours until green beans are tender
- Drain beans and add butter. Stir in butter gently and serve
Or Stove Top Instructions
- Add green beans to a large pot.
- Add chopped bacon, chicken stock, water, seasoned salt, black pepper, and garlic powder.Stir to combine.
- Bring to a boil and reduce heat to simmer
- Cover and cook for about one hour, checking the last 10 minutes for tenderness
- Drain beans and add butter. Stir in butter gently and serve
Nutrition
The beans look delicious, Evelyn ! I can not think of one place here, even out in the country-side towns, where strangers would chat about what to eat 🙂 Nice to know such places really exist !
Seriously! This is easily one of my favorite side dishes!! It's crazy how flavorful they are – and if we ever have leftovers, I always call dibs on them!! 😀
When Green Beans are in season we pretty much do the exact same thing! The only thing that I do a bit differently is to add more butter and fresh baby potatoes. That and a skillet of cornbread makes a wonderful meal.
Now that does sound good! You have me craving cornbread now.
Well, it sounded so good yesterday that I had hubby go to the potato field and get some fresh potatoes and then we went to every farmer stand in a 25-mile radius to score some green beans because mine didn’t do well at all this year. We scored some and everything is in the pot right now with the cornbread in the oven…I hate to rub it in but my house smells wonderful!
Oh, my goodness, I so want to come to your house for dinner, that sounds so good! We read this last night while the hubby and I were sitting on the Front Porch and even though it was late, we wanted to start of a pot of green beans and a pan of cornbread. How do you do your potatoes before adding them?
It honestly depends on the potatoes. For the fresh potatoes out of the field they are small so just washed thrown into the pot with rendered bacon and stick of butter and then stirred around to get as much of that goodness on them as possible. Then for all other potatoes, they are just cut into halves or quarters depending on the size, I would suggest using red potatoes just because they hold up better during the long cooking time. As far as peeling that’s really just a personal preference.
I will let you know though that I season them very liberally with salt and pepper. But especially salt because otherwise, the final dish is lacking in flavor.
We are going to try your way! Can’t wait, it sounds so good.
Oops, forgot to say that they are rolled around in bacon/butter before adding the broth/water.