Green Bean Bacon Bundles.
Have any love to spare? These bundles need it.
Remember when I made those strawberry lemonade cupcakes? The cupcakes that I treated like dirt? The cupcakes that I felt were undeserving of my love? And my chew? The cupcakes that I just wasn’t into?
These came out of my kitchen that same day. Weeks ago. Days ago. 850 years ago. What decade is it?
I must not have been feeling the kitchen that day. Sometimes I love it, other days I loathe it. Some days my breads rise, my cupcakes fluff and my chicken caramelizes. Others my cake sinks, my garlic bread burns, my steak tastes like rubber and my broccoli… well, my broccoli dies. In the crisper drawer. Like always.
[I just learn to move on. Because in the grand scheme of things, broccoli is disgusting. Always. Always, always, always.]
No idea what was going on that day. I baked. Things worked. I ate. Lots. I walked 6 miles. Developed the worst blisters I’ve ever had in my life. Consoled myself with ice cream. Watched Father of the Bride. Twice.
Ate bacon. Bacon! How can a day with bacon be… blah?!
Weeks ago, a lovely reader named Laura sent me this recipe. Hi Laura! For some odd reason… she thought this had my name all over it. I have no idea why. Bacon. Butter. Bacon. Butter.
No idea.
Made them. Loved them! Adapted the recipe just slightly. Fresh green beans. Less butter. More broiling. Took weeeeeks to share them with you. Maybe because they sort of look like spiders? That’s got to be what you’re thinking. Right? I know it is. Because I know you. Me and you? We’re likethis.
Which means you will love these. They are green bean fries meets crispy bacon meets brown sugar garlic bath. Don’t say no.
Green Bean Bacon Bundles
Ingredients
- 1 pound fresh green beans
- 10-12 slices of thick-cut bacon
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Spray a 9 x 13 baking dish with non-stick spray.
- Wash and thoroughly dry green beans, then season with salt and pepper. Bundle together about 5-8 green beans – this will depend on your size of beans and the amount of beans you get for one pound. Bundle together as many as you’d like! Using a slice of bacon, wrap it around the center of the beans to hold it together. Lay the bundle bacon seam side down in the baking dish to hold it together. Repeat with remaining beans.
- Heat a small saucepan over low heat. Add butter, brown sugar and garlic and whisk until melted and combined. Using a pastry brush, brush the mixture over top of each green bean bundle. Cover the bundles with foil and bake for 35 minutes. Remove foil and bake for 10-15 minutes more, just until bacon gets crispy.
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210 Comments on “Green Bean Bacon Bundles.”
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Made these last night for Christmas Eve party and they were a HUGE hit! Party goers said they were the best thing on the menu! Thanks for a delicious recipe!
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We have been making these for 20 years. We got the recipe from a Silver Dollar City cookbook. They serve them in one of the sit down restaurants there. The only difference is in their recipe you don’t salt & pepper the beans, you add pepper to the brown sugar, garlic mixture and they use 6 beans wrapped with half a piece of bacon. My mom, my sisyer & I started partially cooking the bacon before wrapping the beans so that they aren’t swimming in grease. I have also adapted it to make for those dinners when I’m short on time. I use a canned green beans & dtain them. I chop the bacon fry it in my pan, add the brown sugar, garlic, pepper & drained green beans, stir until thoroughly coated & simmer until carmelized or the rest of dinner is done. My hubby loves it fixed this way with dollar rolls to soak up the sauce.
oh my gosh it was great! my husand and daughter made it tonight. I had my doubts but I was wrong! very delicious! never thought the two would work so well together. its really the sauce that makes it work!
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These are adorable. Delicious. And perfect for crowds. I have added this recipe to my repertoire and I shared it as a part of a fully planned dinner party menu on my blog. Easy, delicious and adorable recipes like this are impressive for entertaining. Thank you for making adorable food!
Can you use some sort of rack to keep the bean/bacon bundles out of the grease or does that help with the sauce? What about using classic cut bacon instead of thick cut?
thanks,
Aimee
I loved this idea and tried it but when I unwrapped them the bacon was uncooked on the inside.
Great idea but the bacon wasn’t done on the inside. Next time I will cook them separately then wrap the bacon and then cook for the final 10 mins.
These things are fabulous!!!!! Who could possibly pass these up?? Actually, a half piece of bacon was enough to do the wrap.
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Made them for Thanksgiving they are easy to make and look amazing ! I’m sure they will be delicious! Can’t wait to share them with my family! Thank you you for a great recipe.
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These were wonderful! Made it Christmas Eve Dinner, even the picky ones loved it. I️ made up ahead of time so super simple. Other recipes have you precooking beans and bacon, this was way easier and it can’t be any better.
You had me at “broiled green beans” but I didn’t see anything in the instructions about broiling. Pinning for later, but I am likely to broil during the last step to up the blistering of both beans and bacon. Thanks for the recipe.
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Looks really yummie….
going to try them right now!!!!
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