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Green Bean Bundles

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.

Green Bean Bundles on a plate

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

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  • Recipe Type: Family Recipes, Side dish Recipes
  • Prep time: 20 minutes
  • Cook time: 15 minutes
  • Serves: 10
Green Bean Bundles

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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  • RicklWright

    I’ve made this the last two years for the Holidays. My Families new vegi favorite!

  • J Burkhalter

    I have made a similar recipe for years but baste the bundled beans with sweet BBQ sauce. You wouldn’t eat those vegetables?

  • Kay

    do you think it would work to bake the bacon til underdone instead of frying it?

    • Anonymous

      That’s what I did to my bacon. If you watch the video, you see me baking the bacon.

  • Tabitha

    yum cant wait to try this for christmas

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  • arlene

    This looks really good! I think I’ve just discovered a new way to get hubby to eat green beans! Thanks for posting this.

  • Lucy

    I have been making this recipe for years!! I’m curious–where did you find this recipe?

    • http://www.copykat.com Stephanie

      I tried this for the first time over the Holiday’s it was served at Debbie Nelson’s house. Very good stuff here!

  • Linda Abercrombie

    I LOVE these! I had tried these at Christmas and they are delicous. Thanks for posting them. Now I have the recipe and can make them myself.