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Easy Crock Pot Green Beans

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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.

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Welcome to week 6 of 7 in our Progressive Dinner Blog Hop. I can’t believe it is almost over. This week I am sharing a very easy recipe for fresh green beans made in the crock pot.

If you haven’t had  a chance to see the beautiful Progressive Dinner online magazine our hostess created you can check it out in my Progressive Dinner Invitation post where you can see the beautiful full-color magazine our hostess Glenda from Busy at Home created to announce the big event. It will also give you a sneak peek into what you can expect for the upcoming weeks of our Progressive Dinner.

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So what is a Progressive Dinner you might be asking? Well for 7 weeks myself and four other bloggers will each be sharing one course of a holiday dinner menu from appetizers to dessert in a round up style post. 

By the end of the seven weeks each of us will have shared a Main course, 2 side dish recipes, an appetizer, a  dessert recipe and a pot luck or gift from the kitchen recipe.

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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. 

 

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How to make Easy Crock Pot Green Beans

INGREDIENTS
  • 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
  1. Heat the crock pot up on high
  2. Add the butter, onion, garlic, salt and pepper. Heat stirring occasionally for about 10 minutes.
  3. Add the bacon and cook, stirring for about 5 minutes.
  4. Add the green beans to the crock pot.
  5. Add about 7 cups of water or enough water to cover the green beans.
  6. Cook on high for 4 hours. Low for 6-8 hours
  7. Adjust salt and pepper if needed.

Print the Easy Crock Pot Green Beans recipe below.

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Easy Crock Pot Green Beans

  • Author: Arlene Mobley
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 4 hours
  • Total Time: 4 hours 10 minutes
  • Yield: 8 Servings
  • Category: Crock Pot Side Dish
  • Method: Slow Cooker
  • Cuisine: American
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Description

Take the work out of your holiday meals by making these crock pot greens beans with fresh green beans and let the slow cooker do all the work for you!

Ingredients

  • 1-2 lbs fresh green beans, rinsed and trimmed
  • 1/2 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
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper

Instructions

  1. Heat the crock pot up on high
  2. Add the butter, onion, garlic, salt and pepper. Heat stirring occasionally for about 10 minutes.
  3. Add the bacon and cook, stirring for about 5 minutes.
  4. Add the green beans to the crock pot.
  5. Add about 7 cups of water or enough water to cover the green beans.
  6. Cook on high for 4 hours. Low for 6-8 hours
  7. Adjust salt and pepper if needed.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 cup
  • Calories: 208
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Comments

  13. I would make cookies! So tired of them getting real dark on the bottom and getting stuck or spreading so much they look awful. I just can’t make cookies lately and need this badly!!

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  24. Gluten free cookie dough sticks to everything. I would love to make gluten free sugar cookies for my kids to decorate. Merry Christmas!

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  30. I’d use it to make the chocolate fudge nut cookies our family always made at Christmas. They burn easily, so the mat should help.

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  59. I am a frosted sugar cookie junkie, so my first thought is that I’d like to use it to make those, but I just found a FABULOUS looking recipe for Pumpkin Swirl Sugar Cookies. They have chocolate chips and mini marshmallows in them and you roll them kind of like cinnamon rolls and then slice them, then bake them. They look VERY easy and VERY tasty!

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