Canned Green Bean Recipes

This canned green bean recipe is an easy and delicious way to use those green beans in your pantry! A few ingredients make a veggie the family will love!

I always like to have a small stock of canned goods in my pantry. Small mainly because my current pantry is small. Ha. Even though I usually have preserved produce {like tomatoes, zucchini, and broccoli} in my freezer or fresh from my garden, some days call for a quick veggie fix if I’m going to get one onto the table in time for dinner. Which is where this easy canned green bean recipe comes in!

I grew up eating these and loving them, my mom was the master and making veggies delicious, and this easy canned green bean recipe is one of Abram’s favorites as well. Andy will even eat them!

Please don’t ever just dump a can of green beans into a pot, heat them up, and serve them. Your kids probably won’t eat them.

Instead, make this canned green bean recipe. There are only a few ingredients: butter and onion powder with salt and pepper. Simple but magical!

The first time I made these to go with our dinner, Andy was still pretty apprehensive about anything I cooked {newlyweds}. Especially vegetables. This is a direct quote from that evening, “Those smell like they’d taste good.” But he wouldn’t try them. HA.

The trick to this recipe is to let the liquid simmer completely out. This lets the butter and seasoning stick to the green beans, which results in deliciousness every bite. If you leave the liquid in the beans, all the good stuff you add just gets left behind when you serve them.

A great addition to this recipe is some bacon. Because everything is better with bacon. Especially veggies. Is that an oxymoron? Never mind, don’t answer that. If bacon + veggies = wrong, I just don’t wanna be right.

I’ll just list Cooking Veggies with Butter and Bacon under the growing list that is titled Reasons from the Kitchen: Why Alli Must Exercise Regularly. Also, if you are nerdy like me you can read this awesome article about the chemistry of why bacon is so good.

Easy Canned Green Bean Recipe

This canned green bean recipe is an easy and delicious way to use those green beans in your pantry! A few ingredients make a veggie the family will love!

Prep: 5min

Total: 15min

Yield: 4

Serving Size: 1 serving

Nutrition Facts: calories 46 kcal, Carbohydrate 4 g, Protein 1 g, Fat 2 g, Saturated Fat 1 g, Cholesterol 7 mg, Sodium 174 mg, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 2 g, servingSize 1 serving

Ingredients:

• 1 can green beans (any cut, see note)
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper

Instruction:

1. Drain half of the liquid out of the green beans.
2. Pour the green beans and the reserved half of the canning liquid into a skillet.
3. Add butter, onion powder, salt and pepper.
4. Simmer, uncovered and stirring occasionally, until almost all of the cooking liquid has evaporated.
5. Taste and adjust seasonings if necessary.

How to make canned green beans taste better

Just because your beans come canned and from a grocery store doesn’t mean they can’t have that classic slow-cooked flavor you crave. Easy steps and no-fuss.

Prep: 5min

Total: 30min

Yield: 4

Serving Size: 1 serving

Nutrition Facts: calories 63 kcal, servingSize 1 serving

Ingredients:

• 2 14.5 ounce cans green beans of your choice (canned in water)
• 1 teaspoon beef bouillon base (1 cube beef bouilon would also work but watch the salt! )

Instruction:

1. In a medium sauce pan, empty in the cans of green beans with their water. Add the beef bouillon.
2. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-high and cook until the water reduces by 3/4. Turn off heat and set beans aside on the stovetop or in the fridge for one to two hours or overnight is fine.
3. When ready to eat, bring the beans back to a simmer on the stove top and cook to remove the remaining water. Serve warm.

EASY Canned Green Beans Recipe – how to cook canned green beans

FAQ

How do you jazz up green beans from a can?

How to fancy up canned green beans?

1. Canned Green Bean Casserole.
2. Fried Green Beans.
3. Canned Green Beans with Bacon.
4. Green Beans and Onions.
5. Garlic Parmesan Canned Green Beans.
6. Pan-Seared Canned Green Beans with Cashews and Garlic.
7. Sauteed Garlic Green Beans.

What do you do to can green beans?

1. Prepare your pressure canner to the specified instructions.⁠
2. Clean and cut the beans into bite-size pieces. …
3. Pour boiling water over the prepared beans retaining that ½-inch of headspace.⁠ …
4. Place on prepared lids and rings. …
5. Pressure for 25 minutes at 10 pounds pressure, adjusting for altitude.

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