Green Bean Bundles are my new favorite party food/special holiday recipe? What makes this recipe special? Bacon. While bacon can make almost anything special, when you add some brown sugar to it, this will send you into a new level.

Crispy bacon wraps tender young green beans and there is a sweet, buttery, tangy sauce that is poured over these while they cook. I swear, I think these should be my newest party food. I love these like a party food. What I like about this recipe is that you don’t have to be exact in the measurements, so go with what you have.

Green Bean Bundles

Every time I see a recipe with lots of bacon I am reminded of a story.  I had just brought my former fiancee home to meet my mother and step-father for one of the first times.  Michael apparently loved liver and onions, a food I can’t stand.  My Mom was thrilled that Michael said he loved liver and onions.  Now the way my Mom makes liver and onions is about equal amounts of liver, onions, and well bacon.  I think Michael was amazed at the amount of bacon that went into my Mom’s liver and onions.

My Mom described how she made her liver and onions, I am guessing in the world of liver and onions her food is particularly good, I am not a fan.  She went to the part about where she added the bacon, and told Michael how much bacon she added, you know “some bacon, a pound of bacon, it just adds something”.  Michael looked at me and winked, “yeah, that little something is a pound of bacon. It just adds a little something extra.”

Green Bean Bundles

• Author: CopyKat Recipes
• Recipe Type: Family Recipes, Side dish Recipes
• Prep time: 20 minutes
• Cook time: 15 minutes
• Serves: 10

These savory and sweet green bean bacon bundles are perfect for you next holiday, or festive meal.

Ingredients

• 1 pound french style green beans - you can use regular, but get the thinnest and youngest green beans you can find
• 1/2 pound of bacon - slice bacon in half
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• toothpicks

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Wash green beans and carefully lay them on a paper towel and place them in the microwave to steam for about 90 seconds.  In a large skillet saute bacon until it is almost done, under cook the bacon, you will finish cooking the bacon in the oven.  Meanwhile in a small saucepan combine butter, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, and cayenne pepper, and mix until the butter and brown sugar has blended.  Take about 5 to 6  green beans and bundle them together by wrapping one piece of bacon around the green beans.  Secure bacon with a tooth pick, and place into a 9 x 13 inch baking dish.  Repeat until you run out of green beans or bacon.

Drizzle a couple of teaspoons of the seasoned butter over each green bean bundle.  Bake green bean bundles until the bacon is crisp.  Browning of the bacon should take about 10 - 15 minutes.  Before serving, drizzle a the remaining sauce over the bacon bundles.

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