Switch up your ordinary green beans and turn them into a savory masterpiece with this easy garlic roasted green beans and bacon recipe! This past weekend, I was searching for a new and unique way to cook my fresh green beans. Being from the south, I typically slow cook my green beans over the stovetop with smoked meat. However, I wanted to serve a green bean dish that was tangy, sweet, and savory.
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This green bean recipe combines popular food cravings such as bacon, onions, and garlic! To brighten the flavors of these amazing ingredients, I also included a touch of balsamic vinegar. This mouthwatering recipe smells amazing and is very easy to make for dinner!
Before You Start Cooking:
To ensure you create the most delectable roasted green beans with bacon, take some time to apply a few of these simple roasting tips:
- Preheat Your Oven: For the best roasting results, always preheat your oven to a high temperature, and not the default 350 F. I recommend roasting your green beans between 400 F to 425 F (205 C to 220 C). The higher the heat, the green beans will extract its own natural sugars, resulting in a nice caramelization.
- Season Well: Don’t be shy with seasoning your green beans, especially when roasting. This recipe incorporates the savory flavors of minced garlic, onions, bacon, salt, pepper, brown sugar, and more! Infusing seasoning and flavor into roasted green beans are important to achieve flavor in every bite.
Tips For Roasting Green Beans
- Dry Your Beans: The crispy texture achieved from roasting green beans or other vegetables is literally one of my favorite parts of this recipe. To achieve optimal texture , be sure to thoroughly dry your green beans after washing. If you try to raost green beans while leaving excess moisture, your green beans will end up steaming in the oven instead of roasting.
- Don’t Overcook: Be sure to keep an eye on your roasted green beans to prevent overcooking. Cooking times may vary slightly for this recipe depending on the size of your green beans. You want them to be tender on the outside, but not shriveled looking.
- Don’t Crowd the Pan: To achieve the best roasting results, spread your green beans out in a single layer on a large baking sheet. If you pile the green beans on top of one another over crowd the pan, your green beans will begin to steam instead of roasting.
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I find that roasting with large sheet pan creates the perfect crispy texture & caramelization since veggies can spread out!
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Bacon Balsamic Roasted Green Beans
Ingredients
- 1 lb fresh green beans, washed and tips removed
- 1 cup onions, julienned
- 1 cup bacon (about 5 strips), uncooked and diced
- 4 cloves fresh garlic, minced
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp granulated sugar
- 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
Instructions
- Start by preheating your oven to 425 degrees F. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper or foil for easy clean-up. Set your baking sheet aside.
- Take a non-stick pan and over medium heat, add 1 tbsp of olive oil and sauté your bacon, onion, and minced garlic together. Continue to cook until your bacon is almost done. Remove from heat.
- Take a large bowl and add clean, fresh green beans. Drizzle 1 tbsp of olive oil and toss. Next sprinkle in salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, onion powder, granulated sugar, and brown sugar. Toss to spread seasoning across all green beans. By now the bacon, onion, garlic mixture should be cool. Pour this along with the sauté renderings into your bowl as well. Drizzle in balsamic vinegar and toss one more time.
- Pour all bowl ingredients onto a baking sheet that is lined with parchment paper or foil. Roast until tender, 15 to 18 minutes, depending on desired doneness. Enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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so happy to see this post this morning as i am just about to go shopping so will be making it today
Thanks for the recipe and it’s extremely easy to make. I love that it uses bacon yet it looks like a wok fry dish from China as well ~
Now I have an idea for dinner tonight 🙂 – Knycx Journeying
How appetizing! This looks absolutely scrumptious. My mouth is watering!
Oh my gosh this looks so delicious I would love to try it never seen these dish with bacon before
I like making crunchy green beans! They are so good especially with a little bit of pepper.