Southern Green Beans, Ham & Potatoes
"I love homemade ham & green beans with potatoes, served with a skillet of cornbread and sweet tea! For this recipe, I took two "soul-food" recipes I had and combined them to come up with this one. It's just the way I like it. You can adjust the amounts of ingredients to your own taste. If I use ham hocks, I usually only add one or two slices of bacon for added flavor, just because I like bacon flavor. But if I don't have ham hocks, I use 4- 6 slices of bacon."
- Ready In:
- 2hrs
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 1 -2 ham hock
- 1 -6 slice bacon (raw)
- 2 onions, coarsely sliced
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 -2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon garlic, to taste
- 1⁄4 - 1⁄2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon parsley (optional)
- 2 -3 lbs fresh green beans
- 1 lb potato, quartered, peeled
directions
- Place ham hock and bacon in large Dutch oven pot or soup pot; cover with water.
- Bring to a rapid boil.
- Turn burner to medium to medium-high and let it come to a medium boil.
- Add the sliced onion.
- Let this cook while you wash and snap your beans (about an hour or more).
- Wash beans, cut off ends and break in half.
- Add beans, salt, sugar, garlic, pepper and parsley to the ham hocks.
- Let it come to a boil, then turn burner to medium, to medium-low.
- Let it slow boil for about an hour or more or less, depending on how well you like your beans cooked.
- About 15-20 minutes before done, add your potatoes.
- Boil until tender.
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Reviews
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My favorite summer recipe! I don't add the onion or parsley. I use a little less garlic and a pinch more cayenne for extra kick. I use fresh veggies from a local farm. This with fried cornbread is a family favorite! -
This was delicious - the best recipe for this combo that I've ever had. Because I cooked it in on the stove in a Dutch oven, I did few things differently: I browned the bacon, adding the onions to the bacon toward the end. I stained the bacon fat, then added a large-diced 1-pound ham steak instead of the hocks, and used a quart of homemade chicken stock for the liquid, adding a little more when I added the potatoes. Because of these changes, the 2 teaspoons of salt made it too salty. Next time I will hold off on the salt till it's done cooking and add it to taste, if needed. I also added the lesser amount of cayenne -
Very good recipe.I used chicken broth instead of water and small amt. of red peper flakes instead of cayenne pepper. My son's loved it. -
It was simple to make and my whole family loved it (including 2 toddlers)
Tweaks
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Very good recipe.I used chicken broth instead of water and small amt. of red peper flakes instead of cayenne pepper. My son's loved it.
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