This Recipe will teach you how to make green beans so that they are flavorful, bright and delicious using a blanching/shocking/ sautéing method. Green Beans with Bacon is a side dish that pairs perfectly with just about any main dish!
Fresh Green Beans, when cooked right, are exceptionally flavorful and delicious and the perfect side dish for just about any meal.
Green Beans are also wonderfully versatile and there are so many ways that you can prepare them.
My favorite way to prepare fresh green beans is to use a blanching/shocking method. Blanching simply means boiling the vegetables briefly and then shocking them in an ice water bath to stop the cooking process. The result is tender-crisp vegetables (green beans in this situation) that retain beautiful color.
I like to make my green beans with bacon but you can also leave the bacon out. My mom always made green beans with bacon, which I now realize is a very Midwestern thing to do. Sometimes I’ll cook mushrooms to add to the beans. Or I’ll add freshly grated parmesan cheese.
Feel free to mix it up however you’d like. Green Beans are also delicious with fresh minced garlic or slivered almonds.
Once you have the basic method down of blanching/shocking then sautéing the green beans, you can change it up however you’d like.
Green Beans are the perfect side dish and they don’t have to be tasteless and mushy! This recipe for Green Beans with Bacon is bright and beautiful and delicious!
Green Beans with Bacon would be a delicious side choice with our recipe for Parmesan Crusted Steak or Alice Springs Chicken (an Outback Steakhouse copycat).
Lastly, if you are following a low-carb or ketogenic diet, this is a great option! It’s one of my favorite keto recipes to make.
Enjoy!
How to Make Green Beans
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