Southern Style Fresh Green Beans
Southern Style Fresh Green Beans

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, southern style fresh green beans. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Southern Style Fresh Green Beans is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Southern Style Fresh Green Beans is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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. Southern Style Green Beans - A Southern Soul.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have southern style fresh green beans using 12 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve 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. Get 4 cup water or 1 carton (32 oz) chicken broth… for cooking hamhocks in
  4. Get 1 1/2 tsp salt
  5. Get 1 1/2 tsp black pepper
  6. Make ready 1 medium onion (roughly chopped or sliced)
  7. Get 2 clove garlic minced
  8. Make ready 1/4 cup bacon drippings
  9. Make ready 2 lb green beans
  10. Get 4 small red potatoes
  11. Take 1 tbsp vinegar
  12. Prepare 1 medium hot red pepper… or 1/8 tsp of red pepper flakes (optional)

They most always are cooked with some type of fat. Southern Style Green Beans with fresh green beans and crispy bacon is a flawless side dish for any meal. Do not wait for the holidays to enjoy this mouth. These Southern Style Green Beans are easy and melt-in-your mouth delicious- they're smoky from the bacon and super savory from simmering to I love fresh green beans simply steamed and topped with some salt, pepper, and olive oil or butter- try that if you're looking for lighter green bean fare.

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

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. I like my fresh beans with a little crunch, but some people like them cooked well. Fresh greens beans cooked low and slow with just a bit of smokey bacon bring back great memories of family suppers. These "southern style" green beans are a tradition in many homes and are always at covered dish suppers and church picnics. Fresh green beans get extra heartiness from new potatoes, and extra flavor from bacon, onion, and white balsamic vinegar.

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