Deep South Eats: Caramelized Green Beans

The Caramelized Green Beans from Our Best Bites have been on my to-do list for quite some time. Last month I was taking food to a friend with newborn twins and knew this would be the perfect side dish. I can't wait to make this for our family as well because I got a quick taste and they were delicious!


Ingredients:

• 1 lb fresh green beans
• 1/2 lb bacon, (I used center cut bacon for lower fat content)
• 1/2 red onion, sliced (make sure this is done before you start cooking)
• 3 - 4 cloves of garlic, minced (same as above)
• olive oil
• 2 Tablespoon sugar
• 3 Tablespoon soy sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
• Freshly ground pepper

Directions:

• Boil a large pot of water.
• Place beans in a colander and rinse them well. Snap the ends off of the beans and then snap the beans in half. Leave colander in sink when done.
• Mix sugar, soy sauce and salt in a small bowl and set aside.
• Fry bacon in large skillet. Once cooked, remove from pan, drain on paper towel, and crumble.
• Pour bacon drippings out of pan leaving about 1 Tablespoon of drippings in the pan.
• Add a little bit of olive oil to the drippings and heat the pan to medium-high heat.
• Once the pan is hot, add onion and garlic and give a quick stir.
• Add beans to boiling water and boil for one minute. You just want to blanch them, not cook through. Drain in colander. Continue stirring onion and garlic.
• Once beans have drained add them to skillet with onion and garlic and stir-fry for 2-3 minutes.
• Stir the sauce that you have set aside and pour on top of beans in skillet. Continue stir-frying until beans looked glazed about 2-3 minutes.
• Add bacon crumbles and fresh pepper to green bean mixture and continue stir-frying until sauce is sticking to green beans and bacon.
• Transfer to serving dish and allow to cool a few minutes before serving.

Enjoy!

Original recipe from Our Best Bites.