Southern Style Fresh Green Beans
Southern Style Fresh Green Beans

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, southern style fresh green beans. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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.

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

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to 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. Get 1 dash vinegar (for hamhocks only)
  3. Prepare 4 cup water or 1 carton (32 oz) chicken broth… for cooking hamhocks in
  4. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp salt
  5. Get 1 1/2 tsp black pepper
  6. Get 1 medium onion (roughly chopped or sliced)
  7. Make ready 2 clove garlic minced
  8. Take 1/4 cup bacon drippings
  9. Make ready 2 lb green beans
  10. Take 4 small red potatoes
  11. Make ready 1 tbsp vinegar
  12. Get 1 medium hot red pepper… or 1/8 tsp of red pepper flakes (optional)

Admittingly, the color of Southern-Style Green Beans isn't nearly as appealing as that of fresh green beans. 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!!! Southern Style Green Beans are made with fresh green beans cooked low and slow flavored with salty bacon.

Instructions 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

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. Fresh green beans get extra heartiness from new potatoes, and extra flavor from bacon, onion, and white balsamic vinegar. Southern green beans don't crunch when you bite into them.

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