Southern Style Fresh Green Beans
Southern Style Fresh Green Beans

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, southern style fresh green beans. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Southern Style Green Beans are made with fresh green beans cooked low and slow flavored with salty bacon. This traditional southern side is served on just about every table in the south! Home cooked vegetables are a staple in the south.

Southern Style Fresh Green Beans is one of the most favored of recent viral foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Southern Style Fresh Green Beans is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook southern style fresh green beans using 12 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Southern Style Fresh Green Beans:
  1. Get hamhocks (salt pork, ham pieces, etc)
  2. Take vinegar (for hamhocks only)
  3. Take water or 1 carton (32 oz) chicken broth… for cooking hamhocks in
  4. Prepare salt
  5. Make ready black pepper
  6. Prepare onion (roughly chopped or sliced)
  7. Make ready garlic minced
  8. Prepare bacon drippings
  9. Take green beans
  10. Take red potatoes
  11. Take vinegar
  12. Get hot red pepper… or 1/8 tsp of red pepper flakes (optional)

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Steps 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

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