Bacon Beans Recipe
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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer and cookbook author.
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Here I show you my Bacon Beans Recipe.
The green beans with bacon are a popular side dish.
What should I bear in mind when preparing them? Which bacon do you use? How do the beans stay green?
I’ll answer all these questions here in this article.
These beans go well with many skin dishes with meat. Good luck!
Table of Contents
1. Tips for Beans with Bacon
- After removing the ends, cook the beans in boiling salted water until al dente and then in ice water.
- The green colour of the bean is retained by the rapid cooling.
- Use a smoked bacon or breakfast bacon. Smoked bacon tastes better to me personally.
- You can cut the bacon more easily into cubes if you put the bacon slices briefly in the freezer.
- Use a white, yellow or red onion for the bacon beans.
- You can cut the onion into cubes or strips.
- First sauté the bacon and fry lightly, then add the onions.
- Add the blanched beans just before serving. Season with salt and pepper and heat.
Bacon beans go excellently with steak and roast lamb.
2. Recipe Bacon Beans
Below you will find step-by-step photo instructions and supplementary tips.
Beans with bacon recipe
Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Simple guide to prepare bacon beans.
Preparation Time
15 Min.
Cook Time
10 Min.
Ingredients
| 200 | g | green beans |
| 1 | tsp | Salt (I use Himalayan salt) |
| 80 | g | bacon |
| 1 | pc | red onion (or yellow or white onion) |
| 1/2 | pc | clove of garlic |
| 3 | pinches | Pepper |
| 30 | g | butter |
Instruction
Prepare beans
Wash and dry the beans and cut off the ends.
Prepare pot
Prepare the beans for blanching.
Place a pot of water on top and bring to the boil.
Season to taste with salt.
Blanch beans
Place the beans in the boiling water and blanch until al dente.
Cool beans
Then cool the cooked beans in cold water. Water with ice cubes is ideal.
Cut beans
Cut the beans into small pieces.
Onion and garlic
Halve and peel the onion and garlic.
Cut the garlic into small pieces.
Prepare bacon
Finely dice the onion and garlic.
Get the bacon cubes ready.
Sweat ingredients
Saute the bacon in the pot and fry until crispy, then add the onion slices and sweat along.
Add the garlic and leave to simmer next to the heat.
Add beans
Add the cooled and drained beans to the bacon and onions.
Serve
Next refine with neutral oil or pumpkin seed oil.
Try salad and season to taste with salt, pepper and sugar.
Enjoy!
Tip for cutting bacon:
Briefly freeze the bacon slices, the bacon is easier to cut this way.
Tip for breakfast bacon:
I recommend a high-fat, smoked bacon for the beans.
If you use breakfast bacon, fry it longer until crispy.
Cousine
Keyword
3. Nutritional Values
4. Matching Recipes
The butter beans recipe can be found elsewhere!
Side salads:
Bean salad
coleslaw
Potato Salad Recipes
tomato salad
Bacon beans go with it:
Steak with beans
roast lamb
knuckles of lamb
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