Southern Style Fresh Green Beans
Southern Style Fresh Green Beans

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, southern style fresh green beans. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Southern-Style Green Beans are cooked long and slow until melt in your mouth tender. I'm always in for a home-cooked southern vegetable. Admittingly, the color of Southern-Style Green Beans isn't nearly as appealing as that of fresh green beans.

Southern Style Fresh Green Beans is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Southern Style Fresh Green Beans is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have southern style fresh green beans using 12 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Southern Style Fresh Green Beans:
  1. Get 2 medium hamhocks (salt pork, ham pieces, etc)
  2. Prepare 1 dash vinegar (for hamhocks only)
  3. Get 4 cup water or 1 carton (32 oz) chicken broth… for cooking hamhocks in
  4. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp salt
  5. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp black pepper
  6. Get 1 medium onion (roughly chopped or sliced)
  7. Take 2 clove garlic minced
  8. Take 1/4 cup bacon drippings
  9. Make ready 2 lb green beans
  10. Take 4 small red potatoes
  11. Make ready 1 tbsp vinegar
  12. Prepare 1 medium hot red pepper… or 1/8 tsp of red pepper flakes (optional)

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Instructions to make Southern Style Fresh Green Beans:
  1. ***I use a pressure cooker for my hamhocks….. because I want them good and tender….
  2. put broth or water, hamhocks, dash of vinegar, salt, pepper, 1/2 the chopped onion in the pressure cooker for 45-50 min…. I ONLY USE AN ELECTRIC PRESSURE COOKER….
  3. *** if using salt pork cut into chunks and boil for about 20 min… just to make a broth
  4. *** if using ham I use bouillon cubes to make broth or low sodium carton broth. lat the ham chunks on green beans…..in place of laying on the hamhocks
  5. while hamhocks are cooking I put green beans in a colander and run lukewarm water over them… for 1-2 minutes…. then leave it sit until hamhocks get done….
  6. put baking drippings in heavy bottom pan (I've used veggie oil before)…. set on med and then add the remaining onion and garlic… skillet only needs to be warm when adding onion and garlic… turn skillet up to med/high and when hot add green beans after 3-4 minutes and 'fry'. make sure they all get oil on them..-
  7. **** ONCE HAMHOCKS ARE DONE COOKING…. QUICK RELEASE THE PRESSURE IN YOUR PRESSURE COOKER.
  8. using a soup scoop… put 2 scoops of broth from your pressure cooker over the green beans…. turn fire up until it starts boiling…. then turn back to med heat…
  9. add vinegar and stir well…… I have pepper vinegar I made…. and put a tablespoon in my green beans..
  10. wash and cur potatoes in half… sprinkle with light salt, pepper, garlic or onion powder and mix well by hand…. lay on top of green beans
  11. lay hamhocks on top…. lay whole red pepper on top..(this will be removed before serving)
  12. let cook on once u have a slight boil .. turn down to med/low and let simmer for 25-30 minutes
  13. salt and pepper to taste

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