Recipe: Delicious Southern Style Green Beans

Southern Style Green 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. They're so good, you'd be content to eat a big plate of green beans for a meal.

Cut bacon with kitchen scissors into bite size pieces. Saute in a heavy bottom pot until done. Add in green beans, chicken stock, salt, black pepper, garlic, red pepper (if desired) and give a big stir to mix up. You can have Southern Style Green Beans using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Southern Style Green Beans

1. It's 4 cans of green beans.
2. It's 1 of smoked Turkey leg.
3. It's 3 of chicken bouillon cubes.
4. It's 2 of Tblsp bacon grease.
5. You need 1 of Tblsp butter.
6. You need 3 of bay leaves.
7. It's 1 tsp of garlic salt.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of black pepper.

Use good quality canned green beans because no need to cut corners here, I like a name brand with sea salt.; Thick cut bacon is best and as it cooks down for several hours, it will naturally shred into pieces.; You can make a bigger batch if you like, adding another can or two of green beans. Just add another cup of water to start, and maybe a little more of the other. This recipe can also be cooked in a crock pot, and simmered all day. If fresh green beans are not available, use frozen.

Southern Style Green Beans instructions

1. Open canned beans and place into a pot and put heat on medium high.
2. Add turkey leg and bring to a boil.
3. Add the bouillon, bay leaves, bacon grease and butter and stir.
4. While still boiling add garlic salt and black pepper then to a low simmer for 2 hours stirring occasionally and your done !! ENJOY 🥰💋💋💋.
5. 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 💋.

Just good ol' Southern style green beans with FLAVA!! 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. 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.