Southern

Green Beans Cooked Down with Potatoes

Name: Green Beans Cooked Down with Potatoes
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 1.5 lb fresh green beans, trimmed; 1 lb baby potatoes, halved; 4 oz salt pork or slab bacon, diced; 1/2 onion, chopped; 3 cups chicken broth; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Tamika @tamika_clt

Green Beans Cooked Down with Potatoes is Southern home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

70 min Medium Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 lb fresh green beans, trimmed
1 lb baby potatoes, halved
4 oz salt pork or slab bacon, diced
1/2 onion, chopped
3 cups chicken broth
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Cook the salt pork in a large pot over medium heat until some fat renders, about 4 minutes.
Add the onion and cook until softened, about 3 minutes.
Add the green beans, potatoes, and broth; the liquid should just cover the beans.
Bring to a simmer, cover, and cook over low heat until the beans are very soft and the potatoes are tender, about 45 minutes to 1 hour.
Season with salt and pepper and serve with some of the pot liquor spooned over.

Watch how to cook Green Beans Cooked Down with Potatoes

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Serve it with

A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Green Beans Cooked Down with Potatoes, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
  
  40 min
What it is eaten with
- Buttermilk Biscuits
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Green Beans Cooked Down with Potatoes carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Green Beans Cooked Down with Potatoes
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 440 kcal
Protein: 12 g
Carbs: 47 g
Fat: 23 g
Fiber: 6 g
Sugar: 5 g
Sodium: 570 mg
Saturated fat: 9 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Green Beans Cooked Down with Potatoes takes about 70 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.