This Easy Green Beans stove top recipe is super simple and gives you a delicious side dish to go with a variety of your favorite main dishes!
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How to Make Easy Green Beans on a Stove Top
Aunt Lou here.
One of my favorite side dishes is green beans. I love them so much that I have been known to make up a can of green beans as a snack. While you may not love green beans as much as I do in general, I would bet that you will love this Easy Green Beans stove top recipe.
These can be thrown together in just a few minutes and cooks up in about 20 minutes, so it makes them great for a weeknight side dish. The flavor the bacon and butter gives to the beans is wonderful. It reminds me of the green beans Momma and Gramma used to make when I was a kid. They go great with pork, beef or chicken.
If you would rather crock these yummy green beans, you can find the crock pot version of this recipe here. I also have an instant pot version of this recipe. So no matter how you want to make this recipe, I have you covered!
What You Will Need
Ingredients Needed
- 29 oz Italian cut green beans (2 – 14.5 oz cans)
- 2 pieces bacon, uncooked
- 4 tablespoons butter, cut into pats
- water, enough to cover your beans by about a half inch
- salt and pepper to taste
Equipment Needed
- Can opener
- Cutting board
- Knife
- Large saucepan
- Wooden spoon
Time Needed
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cooking Time: 10 minutes (approximately) covered, at medium high heat, until it comes to a roiling boil. Take the lid off, reduce heat and simmer for 10 more minutes, stirring a few times.
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Easy Green Beans (Stove Top Recipe)
Ingredients
- 29 oz cans Italian cut green beans (2-14.5 oz cans)
- 2 pieces bacon cut or tore into pieces
- 4 Tablespoons butter sliced into pats
- water enough to cover your beans
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Pour your cans of green beans in a large sauce pan.
- Cut or tear up your uncooked bacon into pieces and put in your sauce pan.
- Cut up your butter into pats and add into your sauce pan.
- Add enough water to cover your beans by a half inch
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Stir and cook covered over medium-high heat until it comes to a boil (approximately 10 minutes).
- Uncover, reduce heat and simmer for an additional 10 minutes, stirring a couple times.
Notes
- Looking for more recipes? Our Recipe Finder can help you find exactly what you need.
- Check out all our favorite recommendations for cookbooks, slow cookers and low carb essentials in our Amazon Influencer Shop.
- As with any of our recipes, carb counts, calorie counts and nutritional information varies greatly. As a result, your nutritional content depends on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish. The auto-calculation is just an automated estimate and should NOT be used for specific dietary needs.
- All stove tops cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline. Recipes should always be tested first in your own stove top and time adjusted as needed.
Nutrition
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