These Southern Green Beans will become a weekly staple side dish. They go great with everything and are exploding with flavor. I grew up with my mom and grandmother making these green beans and I’ll never make them any other way.

This blog post was updated 10/10/2022

Ingredients

• Canned cut green beans- You can also use French Style Green Beans. They are both delicious in this recipe.
• Chicken broth or water- For extra flavor, I always add chicken broth. Water will work also.
• Bacon
• Yellow onion
• Garlic cloves
• Ghee
• Salt/pepper
• Garlic Powder

HOW TO MAKE SOUTHERN GREEN BEANS

1. Add a large pot to low heat. Transfer the canned green beans, undrained chicken broth, or water to the pot. Make sure the liquid covers the green beans. Tear the onion slices into medium size pieces and add to the beans along with the ghee, garlic, bacon, and salt/pepper.
   
2. Cook uncovered for 6 hours on low. Make sure to check back on the green beans throughout the day. As it cooks it will get low on liquid, so be sure to add more chicken broth or water as needed. If they do not have enough liquid they may shrivel and get crispy.
   
3. Once the beans are done cooking, remove the bacon and chop it into smaller pieces and add it back to the green beans.
   

HOW TO SERVE THESE SOUTHERN GREEN BEANS

These Southern Green Beans are so delicious I can literally eat them as a meal by themselves. If I don’t eat the whole pot first, I like to serve them with the following:

• Any holiday meal or BBQ
• Roast
• Steak and Cauliflower Mash
• Chicken Poppy Seed Casserole
• Chicken breast
• Stuffed peppers
• Beef Tips and Gravy
• Chick-fil-A Nuggets

Southern Green Beans Tips & Tricks

• Add liquid through the cooking process: Throughout the day, make sure to check on the green beans and as the liquid gets low add either chicken broth or water to cover the green beans. If you don’t do this they will burn and shrivel up.
• Bacon: Make sure to add full slices of bacon to the pot of green beans. This adds so much flavor to the green beans during the cooking process. When you are ready to serve, you can cut the bacon up into tiny pieces and add it back in or remove it altogether. The main purpose of the bacon is to give the beans flavor.
• Cook Time: Cook long and low. Every Sunday when I wake up I will double my recipe and cook all day. We will eat some of the green beans for Sunday night dinner and have enough leftovers to eat throughout the week.
• Crockpot: You can cook the green beans in the crockpot, however, they are not near as good as cooking on the stovetop. I’m not sure why they don’t taste the same, but I have tried and tried, but they just don’t compare to the stovetop version.

Want More Side Dishes?

• Garden Fresh Tomato Cucumber Salad 
• Southern Green Beans
• Tomato Hasselback Caprese Salad
• Mediterranean Greek Salad

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