Easy Canned Green Beans (2024)

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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 smallstock of canned goods in my pantry. Small mainly because my current pantry is small. 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 seriously, it’s so easy. But so dang good.

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

And then you’ll be mad and never want to make dinner again.

And that’s just way too sad!

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

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.

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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!

Course Side Dish

Equipment

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

US Customary – Metric

Instructions

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

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Notes

You can scale this recipe up as needed, we usually make 2 or 3 cans at a time and just adjust the seasonings accordingly.

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