Recipe

Green Beans With Roasted Peppers And Bacon Recipe


Green Beans With Roasted Peppers And Bacon Recipe
Add Step-by-Step Photos 		Chefelaine / All my dishes
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Lovely green beans, cooked with bacon and sweet bell peppers... a tasty side dish that will compliment any good meal!
Prep:15m Cook:20m Servings:8

Chefelaine

 Does this look good? Yeah! / Nope
Fans
Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 lb Green beans
  • 1/2 lb Red bell pepper
  • to taste --- Salt
  • 4 oz Slab bacon

Directions
  1. Trim the stem ends from the green beans.
  2. Wash and drain the beans.
  3. Boil the beans in a large pot of salted water until just tender.
  4. Drain.
  5. Rinse under cold water to cool the beans and stop the cooking, or drop them into ice water.
  6. Drain again.
  7. Refrigerate until needed.
  8. Roast and peel the peppers.
  9. Trim and discard the stem, seed core, and inner membranes.
  10. Cut into batonnet. (thin stick-like strips)
  11. Cut the bacon into batonnet about 1 inch long.
  12. In a heavy sauté pan, cook the bacon over moderate heat until it is crisp.
  13. Remove the bacon from the pan with a slotted spoon and reserve.
  14. Reserve about 2 oz of the fat in the pan, discarding the rest.
  15. Add the beans and the red peppers to the pan with the bacon fat and toss over heat until hot.
  16. Taste and add salt if necessary.
  17. The salt from the bacon may be enough.
  18. Add the crisp bacon and toss to mix.
  19. Serve immediately.
  20. ==================================
  21. Variations:
  22. Green Beans with Pecans and Browned Shallots
  23. -----
  24. Omit the bacon and peppers.
  25. Brown 12 oz thinly sliced shallots in butter.
  26. Add 12 oz broken pecans and continue to cook until the pecans are hot.
  27. Reheat the beans in butter instead of bacon fat, and toss with the shallots and pecans.

Recent Gawkers
Not quite what you're looking for? See more Side Dishes / Vegetable Dishes
Comments

quaziefly 9 months, 3 weeks ago said:
I like the variation too. Thank you for posting this.

lacrenshaw 9 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Well done, elaine. Thanks and ^5!
Lorraine

sparow64 9 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Great idea! I use onion, but never even thought about red pepper!! will do this next time! Thanks for sharing.

momo_55grandma 9 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Thanks for the delicous green beans will cook strip of bacon crisp and add to mine high5 thanks bunches

gagagrits 9 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Beautiful picture and the flavors blend so well together!

juels 9 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Love the simplicity of this and the picture is mouthwatering!

m11andrade 9 months, 3 weeks ago said:
I agree with Juels! Simple and delicious!

grumpymomma 2 months, 1 week ago said:
Looks good to me.5 forks on this one.


Add a Comment
You must be logged in to comment on a recipe. Login
Alterations
No alterations yet


Suggest an Alteration
You must be logged in to suggest a recipe alteration. Login
Viewing Green Beans With Roasted Peppers And Bacon Recipe

Tool Box

url
Digg! add to del.icio.us stumble upon
Print Recipe
Email it
Send Recipe to Cell Phone
Login to Add a Note [?]
Login to Save this [?]
Subscribe to chefelaine [?]
Flag as Interesting/Unique [?]
Add to Comparison Queue [?]

Flavors

Login to Add Flavor Tags [?]

Ratings & Honors

4.9

Average score: 4.9 / 5
No. of ratings: 27
You need to be logged in to rate a recipe.
Who Liked This?
Recipe Honors

Similar Recipes

Related Recipes

Groups

This recipe belongs to the following groups:
This recipe isn't in any groups
You need to be logged in to add a recipe to a group

Related Menus

Related Tags

Home | About | Blog | Contact | Terms | Tell a Friend | Link it up | add to delicious
Copyright © 2007 GroupRecipes.com - The Food Social Network
Recent Searches
Crockpot Recipe For Corned Beef - Fruit Pizza Recipe - Cuban Pork Sandwich Recipe - Pork And Beans Recipe - Delicious Recipes - Cheese Steak Sandwich Recipe - Cabbage And Sausage Recipe - Recipe For German Potato Salad - Tasty Recipes - Biscuit Recipe - Breakfast Quiche Recipe - Rhubarb Sauce - Bisquick Crepes - Easy Pot Pie - Pork Roast With Sauerkraut Recipes - Chicken Macaroni Salad Recipe - Delicious Recipes - Eye Of The Round Recipes - Bisquick Do-ahead Recipes Sausage Cheese Balls - Pasta Salad - Chicken Soft Tacos Recepie - Mussels In Garlic Sauce - How To Bake Whiting - Bbq Shrimp New Orleans - Roasted Cornish Hens -