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Cooked-to-Death Green Beans

I make this with our home-canned green beans, but canned green beans from your grocery store cook down nicely with a little help from a ham hock. The recipe says to cook these for 30 minutes. I would really say just to cook them to death, but 30 minutes sounds sweeter.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    serves 4

Ingredients

2 quarts home-canned green beans or canned Blue Lake variety, with their liquid
1/2 pound cured ham hock (see Note)

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Put the beans, their liquid, and the ham in a large, heavy saucepan. Cook, uncovered, on medium heat for 30 minutes. The beans are ready when the liquid has cooked down.

  2. Note

    Step 2

    Salt pork or Goya Ham-Flavored Seasoning may be substituted for the ham hock.

Reprinted with permission from Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen: Recipes from My Family to Yours by Trisha Yearwood with Gwen Yearwood and Beth Yearwood Bernard. Copyright © 2008 by Trisha Yearwood. Published by Crown Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved. Trisha Yearwood is a three-time Grammy-award winning country music star and the author of the bestselling cookbook Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen. She is married to megastar Garth Brooks.
TagsSouthernAmericanSoul FoodGreen BeanBean and LegumeVegetableHamMeatSideDinnerDairy FreeGluten FreeNut FreeEasyQuick5 Ingredients or FewerSimmerCookbooks
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