

Don’t have chickens Go get at least three or four hens before proceeding to the next step. Discard the ends or feed ’em to your chickens. Break the ends off of each green bean and then break them into bite-sized pieces.
#SOUTHERN STYLE GREEN BEAN RECIPE HOW TO#
Now the recipe below calls for a pinch of sugar (lots of southern vegetable recipes do, especially any kind of cooked greens), but you can either substitute a sugar substitute (I like monkfruit sweetener for this application) or just leave it out all together. Unsalted butter Salt Black pepper How to Cook Fresh Green Beans First, we need to prepare our green beans. The great thing about Southern cooked vegetables is that they are easily adaptable to a keto lifestyle. “Tender” is really what we are shooting for here. Not that they should be baby food either.

There’s nothing crunchy about a Southern style green bean. To be truly southern, a pot of green beans needs two things:ġ – some kind of cured meat such as bacon, salt pork, ham hocks, smoked turkey wings, etc.Ģ – You have to cook the death right out of them.

A bowl of bacon-covered green beans is usually in between the mashed potatoes and the deviled eggs as the one green vegetable that most people are excited to eat. No Sunday supper or holiday meal is complete with out a steaming pile of tender, flavorful green beans somewhere in the side dish lineup. Southern Style Green Beans is a staple recipe here in the South.
