Southern Style Green Beans
Southern Style Green Beans

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, southern style green beans. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Southern Style Green Beans is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Southern Style Green Beans is something that I have loved my entire life.

Southern-Style Green Beans are cooked long and slow until melt in your mouth tender. I'm always in for a home-cooked southern vegetable. A whole plate of them is best.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook southern style green beans using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Southern Style Green Beans:
  1. Take 4 cans green beans
  2. Take 1 smoked Turkey leg
  3. Get 3 chicken bouillon cubes
  4. Take 2 Tblsp bacon grease
  5. Make ready 1 Tblsp butter
  6. Take 3 bay leaves
  7. Make ready 1 tsp garlic salt
  8. Take 1 tsp black pepper

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. Southern Green Beans are slow cooked string beans combined with onion, garlic and crisp bacon.

Instructions to make Southern Style Green Beans:
  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 šŸ„°šŸ’‹šŸ’‹šŸ’‹
  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 šŸ’‹

The end result is heavenly with scrumptious tender melt These are not to be confused with northern style green beans which are cooked crisp tender, sometimes with crispy bacon or with just a little bit. Southern style green beans, whether made alone with sauteed onion and bacon, or with the addition of potatoes, are a well loved side dish in this part of the country. When fresh green beans are at peak in my garden, or in season and available in abundance at the grocery store, those are what I prefer to. These "southern style" green beans are a tradition in many homes and are always at covered dish suppers and church picnics. I must admit, this is not how I cook green beans most of the time.

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