Creole Green Beans Recipe – transform canned green beans into something amazing! Green beans, bacon, onion, green pepper, brown sugar, mustard, stewed tomatoes, and Worcestershire sauce. SO good! I could make a meal out of these green beans! Great with chicken, pork, and beef. Ready in 20 minutes!
Remember this recipe.
Pin this recipe to your favorite board now to remember it later!
Pin This RecipeThese Creole Green Beans are on repeat at our house. They are super easy to make and taste great! We serve these green beans with just about everything. Chicken, pork, or beef. They are also great with your favorite cajun/creole meal! We ate them with a Cajun Dirty Rice Casserole last week. SO good!
How to Make Creole Green Beans
To make the greens, cook some bacon. Add onion and bell pepper to the pan and cook until softened. Stir in flour, brown sugar, salt, pepper, and dry mustard. Add stewed tomatoes and Worcestershire sauce. Stir in green beans and cook until thickened and thoroughly heated.
- I used canned green beans. Feel free to substitute fresh or frozen green beans.
- You will need 2.25-pounds of fresh green beans.
- You will need 3 (9-oz) bags of frozen green beans.
- If using fresh green beans, cook them for about 9 minutes in boiling water before adding them to the skillet.
- If using frozen green beans, cook them according to the package directions before adding to the skillet.
- Feel free to substitute turkey bacon for the pork bacon.
- Can Creole Green Beans be made in advance? Yes! This recipe makes about 6 servings. Even though there are only two of us, I made the whole recipe so we could have leftovers for the rest of the week. They tasted great reheated and it saved me a bunch of time cooking dinner.
- Can Creole Green Beans be frozen? Yes! You can make the green beans and freeze the leftovers for a quick side dish later. To reheat, thaw and reheat in the microwave or the stovetop.
What to Serve with Green Beans
These green beans are a new favorite at our house. We’ve made them several times and just love them! As I said, they go with just about everything. Here are a few of our favorite recipes from the blog that go great with these green beans:
Red Beans & Rice Casserole
Red Beans & Rice Casserole – dirty rice loaded, smoked sausage, red beans, and fried onions. SO good and SUPER…
Cajun Honey Mustard Grilled Chicken
Cajun Honey Mustard Grilled Chicken – only 5 ingredients in the marinade! Honey, dijon mustard, lemon juice, soy sauce, and…
Grilled Blackened Pork Chops
Grilled Blackened Pork Chops – the BEST pork chops EVER! SO much amazing flavor! Pork chops are marinated overnight in…
Cajun Chicken Tetrazzini
Cajun Chicken Tetrazzini – andouille or smoked sausage, chicken, pasta, cajun seasoning, cream of chicken, cream of mushroom, chicken broth…
Creole Green Beans
Equipment:
Ingredients:
- 3 (14.5-oz) whole green beans, drained
- 4 slices bacon, diced
- ½ cup chopped onion
- ½ cup chopped green bell pepper
- 2 Tbsp all-purpose flour
- 2 Tbsp brown sugar
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ tsp pepper
- ¼ tsp dry mustard
- 1 (14.5-oz) stewed tomatoes, undrained
- 1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
Instructions:
- Cook bacon in large skillet until crisp. Remove bacon, reserving drippings.
- Sauté onion and pepper in bacon drippings until tender. Stir in flour, brown sugar, salt, pepper and dry mustard. Stir in tomatoes and Worcestershire sauce.
- Stir in green beans and cook until thickened and thoroughly heated, about 10 minutes. Top with cooked bacon.
Notes:
- I used canned green beans. Feel free to substitute fresh or frozen green beans.
- You will need 2.25-pounds of fresh green beans.
- You will need 3 (9-oz) bags of frozen green beans.
- If using fresh green beans, cook them for about 9 minutes in boiling water before adding them to the skillet.
- If using frozen green beans, cook them according to the package directions before adding to the skillet.
- Feel free to substitute turkey bacon for the pork bacon.
- Even though there are only two of us, I made the whole recipe so we could have leftovers for the rest of the week. They tasted great reheated and it saved me a bunch of time cooking dinner.
- You can make the green beans and freeze the leftovers for a quick side dish later. To reheat, thaw and reheat in the microwave or the stovetop.
Steph
Remember this recipe.
Pin this recipe to your favorite board now to remember it later!
Pin This Recipe
Just got back from New Orleans and was looking for a recipe to recreate what we had there.
These are very good, but I wanted some spice like what I’d had, so added Cajun seasoning and it’s perfect. Thank you!
I’ve made these several times and everyone loves them including myself. What a great dish.
Thank you so much for sharing!!
Best greens beans ever!!
I always use smoked Turkey wings or legs and shred them after boiling. Tastes simply great!!!
I'm not a big fan of green beans, but tried these and love them! Thanks Stephanie!
SO glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
I basically make mine like this but no bell pepper or flour and with smoked sausage in it, too.
I'll have to try this with smoked sausage! YUM!
I just love your site!!! Look forward to it daily. Lost count of the number that I have cooked. Thanks for the entertainment and the delicious foods!