5-Ingredients Crack Green Beans

You might not necessarily consider green beans to be addictive, but recipes with green beans vary, and some are much better than others. Take the following “crack green beans” for example – teaming the beans with 5 ingredients gives them the most incredible flavor.

You won’t be able to stop eating this side dish, and you will want to prepare it again and again. In fact, you’ll want to buy more green beans just so you can!

Even the kids are going to enjoy these green beans, so if yours are a little picky about green vegetables, it’s worth making just to see the little ones chow down! So what are the magical ingredients? Well, first you need green beans of course. You can use canned or fresh. And then you add butter, garlic, bacon, soy sauce, and brown sugar.

The resulting side dish will be rich, meaty, salty, sweet, and juicy.

Why You’ll Love the Recipe:

Green beans are pretty good served just as they are, or paired with a variety of exciting ingredients to make a Thanksgiving side. But what about serving them as a regular weeknight side? This recipe teams the beans with 5 basic ingredients to bring out their natural flavor and make them irresistible. You’ll love what these 5 ingredients does to the beans!

How to Serve Them:

Green beans can be a component of a main course but here they work best as a side dish. Try them with a sirloin steak, some fried chicken or as part of a buffet spread.

Ingredients:

• Butter melted
• Green beans
• Garlic
• Bacon
• Soy sauce
• Light brown sugar

How to make Crack Green Beans:

Step 1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. 

Step 2. Place the green beans into a well-greased 9×13 baking dish. 

Step 3. Whisk together the brown sugar, melted butter, soy sauce, and garlic. 

Step 4. Sprinkle the bacon over the green beans. 

Step 5. Pour the sauce mixture over the green beans. 

Step 6. Bake for 40 minutes. 

These crack green beans are well worth making. The flavor is sweet, spicy, tangy, salty, and juicy all at once, and this might very well be the best recipe with green beans you ever had!

Can You Make Them Ahead?

You can assemble the dish in advance if you wish and then bake them later when you’re ready.

Storage Instructions:

Leftovers should go in an airtight container. Pop it in the refrigerator and use them up within a few days. You could freeze this but it’s liable to go mushy so it’s best to serve this dish fresh.

Variations and Substitutions:

Sub white sugar or sweetener for the brown sugar if you want, or even leave it out. Honey would work here too. As for the soy sauce, coconut aminos is very similar. Ham would also work in place of the bacon. As for the green beans, using canned makes the recipe quicker and easier, but you can use fresh ones if you trim the tops and tails, boil them in salted water for 5 minutes, and then drain and proceed with the recipe.