Southern-Style Green Beans

Name: Southern-Style Green Beans
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 5 slices, bacon; 1 large, onion, halved and sliced; 3 pounds, green beans, trimmed; 2 1/2 cups, water; , Salt and pepper; 1 teaspoon, sugar

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2012

Side Dishes

Southern

Vegetables

Bright green isn’t the only way to love green beans.

SERVES6 to 8

TIME1½ hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Don’t be fooled by the army green color of these “green” beans. The flavorful broth they are cooked in imparts both onion and bacon flavor in every bite, and the long simmer works to make the green beans sweet and full flavored. If you use ...

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