Southern Style Green Beans with Bacon

Southern Style Green Beans with fresh green beans and crispy bacon is a flawless side dish for any meal. Do not wait for the holidays to enjoy this mouth watering, tender and perfect vegetable side dish.

Southern Style Green Beans

There are so many main dish ideas to serve this along side, but I think a healthy set of southern style green beans goes great with Honey Garlic Chicken or Chicken Broccoli Cheese Casserole.

These southern style green beans are a staple on southern tables in the south and are a perfect and delicious side dish for almost any meal. In fact, they are so good, that you can eat them AS the meal. This recipe feeds 4-6 people. If you are looking to feed a larger crowd, you may want to make two batches as a pound of green beans is a LOT to rotate and cook evenly. 

This recipe itself is more of a simple southern green beans, where you use the bacon grease to flavor the beans. That being said, you could certainly dial up the deliciousness by adding a pat of butter, some chopped up white onions, and a tablespoon of minced garlic! 

• 3 slices bacon
• 1lb fresh green beans
• 1 cup chicken broth
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper

I love cooking in a cast iron pan. If you do not have one, you absolutely need to buy one.

• This is my favorite cast iron brand.
• I also have a dutch oven cast iron pan by Lodge that I adore and has a lid. I have the deeper one and the smaller casserole dish version in light gray .

 

How to season Southern Style Green Beans

I like good old fashioned salt and pepper on my green beans and these are marinated in bacon grease. Like I said above, they are simple but can be really flavored up a variety of ways. This green bean side dish is also Keto and Low Carb Friendly! 

• Garlic Salt
• Powdered Onion
• Diced Fresh Onions
• Minced Garlic 
• Cranberries
• Butter

How to cook Fresh Green Beans Southern Style

Cook bacon in pan. Remove bacon from pan and set bacon on paper towels to cool and drain grease. Do not drain grease from pan because you use it to saute your beans.

Note: You can skip fresh bacon in lieu of precooked bacon, just cut it up and add it near the end of recipe so it doesn’t get overcooked in the heating. If you go this route, you just wont have that delicious bacon flavor cooked in. You would need to add a bit of vegetable oil and salt to warm up the pan and get it prepped prior to the next step. 

 

 

Add fresh green beans, broth, salt and pepper and cook, covered, for about 10 minutes so the green beans can get fork tender.

Stir green beans frequently to make sure they are properly cooked through. 

Chop bacon and add to pan.

 

Remove lid and continue to cook for 5-10 minutes or until green beans are cooked through and broth is reduced. How long you cook will depend on what texture you want your beans. 

Serves 4-6

 

How long to Cook Fresh Green Beans

Cooking times can vary when you cook green beans. I like my fresh beans with a little crunch, but some people like them cooked well. I’d allow about 20 minutes total for a crisp cook plus bacon can take a bit to cook.

Green Bean Side Dishes

Another Green Bean Side Dishes you will love

•  Classic Green Bean Casserole
• Feta Green Bean Salad with Grape Tomatoes
• 3 Bean Salad with Cold Green Beans
• Seasoned Green Beans (KETO FRIENDLY)
• Green Beans Almondine with Feta
• Southern Green Beans and Bacon

Plus another 20 amazing Christmas Side Dish recipes here (psst, my favorite holiday side dish to serve is Broccoli Casserole with Ritz Crackers – YUM!) ~

Southern Style Green Beans

Yield: 6 people

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

Southern Style Green Beans with fresh green beans and crispy bacon is a flawless side dish for any meal. Do not wait for the holidays to enjoy this mouth watering, tender and perfect vegetable side dish.

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Ingredients

• 3 slices bacon
• 1 lb fresh green beans
• 1 cup chicken broth
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper

Instructions

1. Cook bacon in pan. Remove bacon from pan and set on paper towels to cool
2. Do not drain grease from pan. Add green beans, chicken stock broth, salt and pepper.
3. Cook your grean beans in the grease, covered, for about 10 minutes. Stir frequently to saute on all sides.
4. Chop bacon and add to pan. Remove lid and continue to cook for 5-10 minutes or until beans are cooked through at the texture you like and broth is reduced.
5. Serves 4-6

Notes

WANT MORE FLAVOR? Try adding butter, chopped onions, minced garlic or seasoning salts.

Nutrition Information:

Yield: 6 Serving Size: 6 people
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 53Total Fat: 2gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 7mgSodium: 432mgCarbohydrates: 6gFiber: 2gSugar: 3gProtein: 4g

Nutritional information is automatically calculated with ingredients and serving size and may not be accurate. Please always double check with your own nutritional apps as well.