Laurels Spicy Sweet And Sour Green Beans Food

SWEET AND SOUR GREEN BEANS

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a medium skillet over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until well-browned. Add onion and cook until translucent. Stir in flour and cook 2 minutes more.
• Pour vinegar and 3/4 cup of the reserved green bean liquid into the pan. Add sugar, salt, and pepper, and stir to combine. Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, and stir in the green beans. Continue cooking at a low simmer until beans are hot.

SWEET AND SOUR GREEN BEANS

Steps:

• Cook bacon until crisp and remove from pan.
• Drain on paper towels.
• Saute onion in drippings.
• Add brown sugar, vinegar and green beans.
• Crumble bacon into mixture.
• Simmer 20-30 minutes.
• Garnish with almonds and pimento, if desired.

SWEET AND SOUR GREEN BEANS

Steps:

• Place green beans in a large pot of salted water. Bring to a boil. Simmer 12 to 15 minutes. Drain.
• Chop bacon into bite-sized pieces and cook until crisp in a large nonstick pan. Remove bacon with a slotted spoon and set aside.
• Add onion to bacon drippings and cook until softened.
• Add remaining ingredients to pan and stir to mix.
• Add green beans to pan and toss to coat in the sauce. Continue to cook 1-2 minutes, stirring often so that the green beans pick up as much flavor as possible.
• Sprinkle bacon on top and serve.

SOUR GREEN BEANS

Steps:

• Boil green beans until done.
• Drain off water.
• Brown bacon until crisp and crumble it.
• Place it in grease.
• add 1/2 cup of flour into the bacon and grease.
• mix together until moist.
• add 1 1/2 cup vinegar.
• add 1/2 cup water.
• add 1/3 cup sugar.
• Taste to make sure it is seasoned right. You may have.
• to add more vinegar or sugar.
• Pour over the cooked green beans and enjoy.

SWEET AND SOUR GREEN BEANS WITH BACON

Steps:

• Place green beans in a microwave-safe bowl and add enough water to make a layer in the bottom; heat in microwave until green beans are tender yet firm to the bite, 1 to 3 minutes. Drain.
• Heat peanut oil in a large wok or skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onion until tender, 5 to 10 minutes. Transfer onion to a bowl and discard any remaining oil.
• Place the bacon in the wok or skillet and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Drain bacon slices on paper towels and cut into bite-size pieces. Reserve 4 to 5 tablespoons bacon drippings in the wok.
• Mix onion, brown sugar, vinegar, and liquid smoke in the reserved bacon drippings; cook and stir until sauce is bubbling and brown sugar is dissolved, about 5 minutes. Add green beans to sauce and stir to coat; cook until green beans are heated through, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Transfer green bean mixture to a microwave-safe casserole dish; season with black pepper. Serve immediately or warm in the microwave, if needed.

SWEET AND SOUR GREEN BEANS

Steps:

• In a saucepan, combine the water, beans, salt, pepper, bay leaf and cloves.
• Cover and cook over low heat for 3 minutes less than package directions.
• Drain and add the sugar, vinegar and butter or fat.
• Cook 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
• Remove bay leaf and serve.

SWEET AND SPICY GREEN BEANS

Steps:

• Arrange a steamer basket in a pot over boiling water, and steam the green beans 3 to 4 minutes.
• In a bowl, mix the soy sauce, garlic, garlic chili sauce, and honey.
• Heat the canola oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the green beans, and fry for 3 to 5 minutes. Pour in the soy sauce mixture. Continue cooking and stirring 2 minutes, or until the liquid is nearly evaporated. Serve immediately.

SWEET AND SOUR BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Put onion slices in skillet, add sugar, mustard, salt and vinegar. Cook covered 20 minutes.
• Add cooked bacon and onion mixture to beans, which have been mixed and poured into a large casserole.
• Bake at 350 degrees, 45 minute to 1 hour covered.

SWEET AND SOUR GREEN BEANS

Steps:

• In a skillet, cook bacon until crisp; drain, reserving 2 tablespoons of drippings. Crumble the bacon and set aside. Saute the onion in drippings until tender. Stir in flour until thoroughly combined. Add water, vinegar and sugar. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly; cook and stir 2 minutes more. Gently stir in beans and heat through. Sprinkle with bacon. Serve immediately.

EASY & KID FRIENDLY SWEET GREEN BEANS

Steps:

• Remove stems from beans.
• Add garlic, butter and green beans to frying pan, simmer covered on medium low heat -stirring occasionally- for 20 minutes or until beans are tender.
• Drizzle small amount of honey and maple syrup on top of beans occasionally as they cook. You can add as much or as little as you like for desired sweetness!

SWEET & SOUR GREEN BEANS

Steps:

• Fry BACON and remove from fat.
• Mix SUGAR, VINEGAR and GARLIC; add to hot BACON FAT.
• Cook mixture for about 5 minutes over medium high heat.
• Place BEANS in a shallow baking dish.
• Sprinkle ALMONDS over BEANS.
• Place ONION rings on top of ALMONDS.
• Crumble BACON over the top of the ONIONS.
• Pour SUGAR/VINEGAR/GARLIC/BACON FAT mixture over the top of the BACON.
• Bake at 250 degrees for 4 hours.
• For a better presentation, I would drain the liquid off of the beans before serving, or serve the beans in soup bowls. But, keep the liquid, just in case you do reheat the beans.