Jazz up your boring side dishes with these outstanding baked bacon green beans. Ultra easy from frozen beans. Topped with bacon and cooked with butter and brown sugar, this will be a family staple.
I’m always looking for great veggie side dishes. Readers of this blog know I have veggies issues. We are more of a meatassorous household. So a recipe topped with bacon has obvious appeal.
My wife came up with this inspiration piece, Smothered Green Beans at Plain Chicken. Now, I’m sure Stephanie at Plain Chicken would not even recognize it as coming from her inspiration. I did keep the bacon. I went with frozen and not canned beans. I changed ratios, more butter, less soy. And I greatly changed the size. But the flavor idea is the same.
My Rating
My wife (the queen of all meatassorouses) gave it a 5. Her cousin had three servings. I think it is a high 4 to low five.
Recipe notes for Bacon Green Beans
The original recipe was for canned green beans. We gave up on canned beans years ago due to texture issues. We do frozen beans all the time and fresh beans when they look good, and the timing is right with our shopping.
The frozen beans are generally “blanched” but not otherwise cooked. They will keep good color, and the texture here is just fine. Fresh should work fine, but color may not be as nice.
Other Vegetable Recipes You May Love
Green Beans with Toasted Almonds
Roasted Garlic Parmesan Asparagus
Preheat oven to 375 convection.
Cut 3-4 pieces of bacon into pieces and fry. Stop just before crispy and drain on paper towel.
Melt 2 tablespoons salted butter in a microwave. Add 2 tablespoons brown sugar, 1 tablespoon soy sauce and 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder.
Add one pound frozen green beans to a 8 by 8 baking dish. Spread the bacon over the beans. Drizzle the liquid over the dish.
Bake until beans are tender. About 40 minutes.
Do you want more recipes from 101 Cooking for Two? Sign up for the newsletter and get all posts delivered straight to your inbox!
Baked Bacon Green Beans
Ingredients
- 1 pound frozen whole green beans
- 3-4 strips bacon
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce - low sodium preferred
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 convection.
- Cut 3-4 pieces of bacon into pieces and fry. Stop just before you get to crispy and drain on paper towel.
- Melt 2 tablespoons salted butter in a microwave. Add 2 tablespoons brown sugar, 1 tablespoon soy sauce and 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder.
- Add one pound frozen green beans to a 8 by 8 baking dish. Spread the bacon over the beans. Drizzle the liquid over the dish.
- Bake until beans are tender. About 40 minutes.
Check Out Other Great Recipes
Nutrition is generally for one serving. Number of servings is stated above and is my estimate of normal serving size for this recipe.
All nutritional information are estimates and may vary from your actual results. This is home cooking, and there are many variables. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.
This Recipe Featured in These Recipe Roundups
Terri
Really, really good.
Dan Mikesell AKA DrDan
Hi Terri,
Welcome to the blog.
Glad you enjoyed the recipe and thanks for the rating.
Dan
KIm F.
Super good… what a great flavor combo! I did end up baking for about 50 minutes… I tend to over cook our vegetables, we like them on the soft side. Thank you for sharing another great recipe!
DrDan
Hi Kim,
Welcome to the blog.
This is one of our favorites. I think it is the bacon for my wife.
Thanks for the note.
Dan
S
This was delicious. I made it for a family gathering and almost all of it was eaten! I doubled the green beans/bacon and over-doubled the sauce recipe, with a little more soy sauce, as I felt the original sugar to salt ratio was somewhat overpowering. I used my toaster oven to bake it, at regular 375 (vs. convection) for about 50 minutes. I would make this again. :) Thanks for sharing!
DrDan
Hi S,
Welcome to the blog.
This has become our go to veggie recipe for company steak meals. So I have done it probably 30 plus times.
What I find surprising is that frozen whole green beans work better than fresh… Unexpected.
Thanks for the note.
Dan
Pat
Looks delicious!