Mom's Green Beans
Recipe: #14868
October 20, 2014
Categories: Side Dishes, Beans, Beans (String), 5 Ingredients Or Less, Christmas, Sunday Dinner, Gluten-Free, Low Carbohydrate, No Eggs, Non-Dairy, Green Beans, more
"If you like crispy green beans, this is not the recipe for you. This is good, old-fashioned comfort food, calories included!"
Ingredients
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- Optional
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (128 g)
- Calories 118.5
- Total Fat - 8.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 4.5 g
- Cholesterol - 21.9 mg
- Sodium - 741.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 8 g
- Dietary Fiber - 3.1 g
- Sugars - 3.7 g
- Protein - 4.4 g
- Calcium - 44.7 mg
- Iron - 1.3 mg
- Vitamin C - 13.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Wash beans and snap into 1 1/2" pieces, discarding ends. Barely cover with water, add salt and bacon grease.
Step 2
Cover and bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmer and cook about an hour. Pour off water and add butter. Let sit with lid back on for about a minute, to melt butter, then toss gently and serve.
Step 3
Optional bacon, you can either add up front or cook separately and add at the end.
Tips
No special items needed.