# Southern Green Beans

A classic Southern side dish featuring green beans cooked with bacon, onion, brown sugar, soy sauce, and apple cider vinegar.

- Total time: 20 min
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Side
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 4 strips bacon, cut into lardons
- 1 purple onion, medium
- 2 cans green beans, canned
- 0.5 tsp garlic powder
- 0.5 tsp pepper
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 0.33 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar

## Instructions

1. In the bottom of a Dutch oven, cook the bacon lardons until a lot of the fat starts to render out.
2. Add the medium purple onion and cook for a couple of minutes until it starts to get tender.
3. Stir in the two cans of green beans.
4. Add half a teaspoon of garlic powder, half a teaspoon of pepper, and half a teaspoon of salt.
5. Add a third of a cup of packed brown sugar.
6. Stir in a tablespoon of soy sauce and a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar.
7. Move everything around to ensure the sugar starts to dissolve.
8. Once the sugar is dissolved, put the lid on the Dutch oven and cook for about 20 minutes on medium-high heat.
9. Take the lid off and let a lot of the moisture evaporate out.

## Equipment

- Dutch oven

## Tips

- You can use fresh green beans instead of canned.
- You can use whole green beans instead of cut green beans.
- You can use light or dark brown sugar.

## Source

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- Extracted: 2026-05-31

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