My Nana’s Famous Green Beans! One of the most requested recipes from my family – year-round! Made with just a handful of ingredients, this easy green bean recipe make a delicious addition to any meal! Enjoy these tasty green beans with the Ultimate Chicken Fried Steak and the BEST dinner rolls for a family dinner you won’t forget!
Nana’s Famous Green Beans Recipe
Growing up my Nana was my biggest supporter of my efforts in the kitchen. Almost every day after school I would go to her house and we would make something. Usually involving chocolate. My Nana had a sweet tooth just like me 🙂
So much of my time is spent developing new recipes that I often forget to share family recipes that totally rock my world. I’ve shared my Nana’s To-Die-For Carrot Cake, her Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Crunch Balls and her Sausage Gravy and I just couldn’t wait another day to share this one with you all.
One of my Nana’s recipes that is near and dear to my heart is Nana’s famous green beans. My Nana would serve up these mouth-watering green beans for all sorts of special occasions. What my Nana never realized was how much more special each of those occasions became with the addition of her famous green beans to the menu.
What Is Needed for this Green Beans Recipe
- Fresh green beans – canned green beans can also be “doctored” up using this recipe
- Bacon
- Onion
- Chicken broth or water (use the broth os stock if you can)
To this day, they are frequently requested and often enjoyed throughout the year by my family. They never fail to make it to my sister’s birthday dinner, our Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, and any other time we have fresh green beans available.
What Makes These Green Beans the Best?
The beans are cooked with bacon and onions for as long as possible until they become so tender and flavorful that it’s hard to resist snatching one or two each time you check on them. We frequently serve a “real” vegetable or salad with these green beans because they are just too good to count 🙂 My Nana’s Green Beans will be served at our Thanksgiving meal and it’s one yummy way to honor an amazing woman.
Enjoy!
How To Make The Best Green Beans
My Nana’s Famous Green Beans
Ingredients
- 6 slices of bacon
- 2 pounds of rinsed and trimmed fresh green beans
- 1/2 cup diced yellow onion
- 1 1/2 cups chicken broth or water
- salt and pepper to taste I usually don't add salt because the bacon is plenty salty
Instructions
- Cut the bacon into small pieces and cook over medium heat in a heavy 3 qt saucepan until the bacon is fully rendered.
- DO NOT remove any of the bacon grease - it's what makes these green beans so amazing!
- Add the onions and saute with bacon until transparent.
- Add green beans and pepper and stir making sure the bacon drippings are getting mixed in well.
- Add chicken broth and reduce heat to low.
- Cover and continue cooking the green beans for 30 minutes up to two hours, stirring occasionally. Make sure there is liquid in the bottom of your pot so that the beans don’t get scorched.
- Check for seasoning levels and add salt and pepper if necessary.
- Enjoy!
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Kerstin says
We love your Nana’s Famous Green Beans. This has become our go to recipe for green beans for a few years now. Perfect for Thanksgiving and all year round. Thank you!
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
That makes me so happy! Thank you!
Danielle Postell says
Do you serve with the broth or just pull the beans out and serve?
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
I usually scoop out the beans and put in a serving dish and then drizzle some of the cooking broth over the top so they don’t dry out at all. Plus there’s a lot of flavor in it!
Becky says
Made for Easter and thee were a big hit. House smelled so good while cooking. They
Were mouth watering delicious. You know when they’re done because they melt
Into your mouth. I used Montreal steak seasoning instead of pepper.
No salt. Chicken broth so yummy. My son and husband who won’t eat green beans loved them. I can’t wait to make them again! Thanks!
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
EXACTLY. You just got me craving these – I think they are going to have to happen this weekend lol! Thanks for stopping by!
Pamela Nihiser says
Hi, I would love to try these just wondering how changing the chicken broth to water does? We have a chicken allergy and can’t use it.
Carroll says
Try beef broth.
Amell says
Does anyone know how long it took for theirs to cook ? 30min -2hrs is a big range. Im just trying to make sure all my sides are done at the same time. Thanks!
Sophia says
I’m a native Californian and first had this dish while living in Missouri. One bite full and I swore I would never eat green beans any othr way again! So I’ll be serving this for the holiday meal to my CA fam….they are expecting green bean casserole….they’ll get a treat wih this recipe instead!
Babynamesworld says
I have made these the last two easters!!!!
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
Ha! Me too 🙂 A family favorite to be sure!
Ann Cunningham says
This is the way my mom made her greenbeans and omg they were always delicious and this is the way I fix them now.
Ivory says
OMG, your green beans looks so mouthwatering good. Thanks!
connie says
My mom made green beans just like your recipe except she would add a couple extra things: small amount
of olive oil, garlic, and sometimes she would add potatoes. The potatoes taste so good cooked this way. I
think my mom got her recipe from her mom, my nana. No recipe or amounts, I just learned how it was made.