Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, southern style fresh green beans. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Now these Southern Style Green Beans combines fresh green beans, smoked bacon, and onion into the most mouth watering side imaginable. Southern cooking is a cure all for whatever ails you and may be the best regional cooking ever!!! These Southern Green Beans are no exception to that rule. Fresh Green Bean Recipe - Southern Style Here is an easy delicious fresh Green Bean recipe you can make for your family.
Southern Style Fresh Green Beans is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Southern Style Fresh Green Beans is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have southern style fresh green beans using 12 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Southern Style Fresh Green Beans:
- Make ready 2 medium hamhocks (salt pork, ham pieces, etc)
- Take 1 dash vinegar (for hamhocks only)
- Get 4 cup water or 1 carton (32 oz) chicken broth… for cooking hamhocks in
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp black pepper
- Prepare 1 medium onion (roughly chopped or sliced)
- Prepare 2 clove garlic minced
- Take 1/4 cup bacon drippings
- Take 2 lb green beans
- Prepare 4 small red potatoes
- Get 1 tbsp vinegar
- Prepare 1 medium hot red pepper… or 1/8 tsp of red pepper flakes (optional)
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. They most always are cooked with some type of fat.
Instructions to make Southern Style Fresh Green Beans:
- ***I use a pressure cooker for my hamhocks….. because I want them good and tender….
- put broth or water, hamhocks, dash of vinegar, salt, pepper, 1/2 the chopped onion in the pressure cooker for 45-50 min…. I ONLY USE AN ELECTRIC PRESSURE COOKER….
- *** if using salt pork cut into chunks and boil for about 20 min… just to make a broth
- *** if using ham I use bouillon cubes to make broth or low sodium carton broth. lat the ham chunks on green beans…..in place of laying on the hamhocks
- while hamhocks are cooking I put green beans in a colander and run lukewarm water over them… for 1-2 minutes…. then leave it sit until hamhocks get done….
- put baking drippings in heavy bottom pan (I've used veggie oil before)…. set on med and then add the remaining onion and garlic… skillet only needs to be warm when adding onion and garlic… turn skillet up to med/high and when hot add green beans after 3-4 minutes and 'fry'. make sure they all get oil on them..-
- **** ONCE HAMHOCKS ARE DONE COOKING…. QUICK RELEASE THE PRESSURE IN YOUR PRESSURE COOKER.
- using a soup scoop… put 2 scoops of broth from your pressure cooker over the green beans…. turn fire up until it starts boiling…. then turn back to med heat…
- add vinegar and stir well…… I have pepper vinegar I made…. and put a tablespoon in my green beans..
- wash and cur potatoes in half… sprinkle with light salt, pepper, garlic or onion powder and mix well by hand…. lay on top of green beans
- lay hamhocks on top…. lay whole red pepper on top..(this will be removed before serving)
- let cook on once u have a slight boil .. turn down to med/low and let simmer for 25-30 minutes
- salt and pepper to taste
Home cooked vegetables are a staple in the south. They most always are cooked with some type of fat. How to cook southern green beans full of flavor using fresh green beans, onions, garlic, red pepper, smoked meat and red pepper. I was raised on string beans and this southern green beans recipe is a favorite with my family. I love that it's so easy, yet full of flavor.
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