Green Edible Bean Bundles, Southern Style

Savory, Not Sweet Green Bean Bundles

When holidays come upwards around, nosotros all tend to accept the lilliputian extra step, the extra endeavour inward preparing foods for our loved ones. Taking ordinary ingredients, similar light-green beans, as well as making it into a dish that is lilliputian special, a chip to a greater extent than fancied up.

I've had my percentage of light-green edible bean bundles as well as it seems the favorite to many is a sense of savor of the brownish carbohydrate addition. Now don't operate me wrong, I dearest our carbohydrate cane derived brownish sugar. But non alongside light-green beans as well as bacon, or at least, non this time. This recipe is i I tinkered alongside to choose out the southern flavors of the bacon along alongside our dearest of the bay leaf. It's a chip to a greater extent than savory than the brownish carbohydrate version, has to a greater extent than sense of savor to it, marries good on the palate, or at to the lowest degree I think. Enjoy!

Southern Green Bean Bundles

Makes 8 bundles

1 pound fresh, whole light-green beans
salt
8 slices smoked bacon
two tbsp flour
1/2 tsp garlic as well as parsley blend
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp ground bay leafage or thyme
freshly cracked peppercorns

Wash as well as withdraw ends of light-green beans. Blanch inward salted boiling H2O until crisp tender, most four minutes. Drain as well as pat dry.

Partially precook bacon on a modest baking pan inward preheated 350 aeroplane F oven. Place slices of bacon on newspaper towel, reserve bacon grease inward the pan. Dust the transcend alongside a mixture of the flour, garlic as well as onion powders as well as the terra firma bay leaf, using most one-half of the mixture. Give a proficient coating of pepper.

Increase oven to 400 degrees F.

Place light-green beans onto the baking pan as well as curlicue around to coat alongside the grease. Lightly sprinkle alongside the remaining flour mixture. Divide light-green beans into 8 bundles. Wrap bacon around each packet alongside the seasoned side of the bacon on the outside.

Bake inward the oven for xv to xx minutes or until bacon is crispy. Remove as well as serve warm.