Southern Style Fresh Green Beans
Southern Style Fresh Green Beans

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, southern style fresh green beans. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Southern Style Fresh Green Beans is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Southern Style Fresh Green Beans is something that I have loved my entire life.

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.

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 that.

The ingredients needed to make Southern Style Fresh Green Beans:
  1. Get 2 medium hamhocks (salt pork, ham pieces, etc)
  2. Take 1 dash vinegar (for hamhocks only)
  3. Make ready 4 cup water or 1 carton (32 oz) chicken broth… for cooking hamhocks in
  4. Take 1 1/2 tsp salt
  5. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp black pepper
  6. Make ready 1 medium onion (roughly chopped or sliced)
  7. Make ready 2 clove garlic minced
  8. Make ready 1/4 cup bacon drippings
  9. Take 2 lb green beans
  10. Take 4 small red potatoes
  11. Take 1 tbsp vinegar
  12. Make ready 1 medium hot red pepper… or 1/8 tsp of red pepper flakes (optional)

Remove ends and any strings from green beans and discard. Once beans are all broken, wash green beans thoroughly, removing any dirt that might be present. Place into a large heavy saucepan or dutch oven and cover. How To Make Southern Style Green Beans Recipe.

Steps to make Southern Style Fresh Green Beans:
  1. ***I use a pressure cooker for my hamhocks….. because I want them good and tender….
  2. 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….
  3. *** if using salt pork cut into chunks and boil for about 20 min… just to make a broth
  4. *** 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
  5. 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….
  6. 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..-
  7. **** ONCE HAMHOCKS ARE DONE COOKING…. QUICK RELEASE THE PRESSURE IN YOUR PRESSURE COOKER.
  8. 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…
  9. add vinegar and stir well…… I have pepper vinegar I made…. and put a tablespoon in my green beans..
  10. 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
  11. lay hamhocks on top…. lay whole red pepper on top..(this will be removed before serving)
  12. let cook on once u have a slight boil .. turn down to med/low and let simmer for 25-30 minutes
  13. salt and pepper to taste

Start by rinsing your green beans and letting them dry. Meanwhile, cook your bacon, then add the green beans to the pan until the beans turn bright green. Slowly add the chicken broth, then the salt and pepper, and bring to a simmer. Simmer with the lid cracked until the beans are tender. This recipe can also be cooked in a crock pot, and simmered all day.

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