Homemade Easy Crock Pot Green Beans
Homemade Easy Crock Pot Green Beans are one of my favorite holiday side dish recipes. Made with fresh green beans, bacon and chopped onion in the slow cooker tastes so much better than canned green beans.
Easy Crock Pot Green Beans
One of the things I love about holiday meals are the leftovers. Some years for Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner I will make a turkey and a ham.
As much as I enjoy eating the ham during dinner I can't wait to use the leftover ham in either a pot of beans, homemade soup or a crock pot full of fresh green beans.
And promise you won't tell! but I have been known to cut a hunk of meat off the spiral ham I am serving so I could add it to a crock pot of green beans that I will be serving as a side dish.
But what if I have a craving for fresh green beans and haven't made a ham? Bacon works just as good!
Or if you like you can use a piece of fat back. If your from the south you know what fat back is.
If your not look in the grocery store where they sell the bacon. You'll find a squarish piece of pork sealed in plastic.
That is fat back and it can be used to season a crock pot full of green beans or a pot of soup.
But to make things so much easier you can just use some bacon to season fresh green beans. It has the same salty smoky flavor a hunk of ham does and is readily available to most everyone.
How to make Easy Crock Pot Green Beans
- 1-2 lbs fresh green beans, rinsed and trimmed
- ½ cup diced onion
- 5 slices of bacon, a chunk of fat back, or a leftover ham bone with meat attached
- 7 cups water
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 tablespoon butter
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
Directions
- Heat the crock pot up on high
- Add the butter, onion, garlic, salt and pepper. Heat stirring occasionally for about 10 minutes.
- Add the bacon and cook, stirring for about 5 minutes.
- Add the green beans to the crock pot.
- Add about 7 cups of water or enough water to cover the green beans.
- Cook on high for 4 hours. Low for 6-8 hours
- Adjust salt and pepper if needed.
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Easy Crock Pot Green Beans
Ingredients
- 1 lbs fresh green beans rinsed and trimmed
- 1 medium onion peeled and diced
- 8 ounces bacon, diced a chunk of fat back,or a leftover ham bone with meat attached
- 7 cups chicken broth or water
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 2 tablespoon butter
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Layer the green beans, diced onion, diced bacon, minced garlic, butter, salt and black pepper in a 8 quart slow cooker.
- Pour the chicken broth or water over the ingredients.
- With a spoon stir the ingredients to combine.
- Turn the crock pot on high. Place the lid on the crock pot.
- Slow cook the fresh green beans for 4 hours on high or 6 to 8 hours on low. Or until the green beans are tender.
- Occasionally stir the green beans as they cook.
- Adjust the salt and pepper if needed before serving.
- Serve the green beans as a side dish with any meal.
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