Who isn’t a fan of Green Bean Casserole? We have it at all of our holiday get-togethers. This is not your typical green bean casserole recipe. This is Bacon Green Bean Casserole. I mean who doesn’t love bacon? If you put bacon on anything, I’ll eat it.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
I love coming up with recipes for my family around the holidays. In my Green Bean Casserole recipe, I use bacon, mushrooms, and garlic. Let’s not forget those crispy fried onions that everyone loves. Each bite is creamy with an added crunch. I know your mouth is watering right now. Don’t worry, mine is too. If you prefer canned green beans that will work too.
Ingredients in Bacon Green Bean Casserole
Green Beans – For this recipe, you can use fresh, frozen, or canned.
Cream of Mushroom Soup – Using this is what makes this recipe so easy. You can also make your own.
Mushrooms – Using fresh mushrooms for this recipe is a must. You can buy the fresh presliced mushrooms if you would rather not slice your own.
Bacon – Crispy bacon pieces give this dish a little crunch and a lot of flavor.
French Fried Onions – These are what make the green bean casserole what it is. These are a must.
How To Make It
- Boil fresh green beans in a saucepan for approximately 5 minutes on medium-high heat. Or follow the instructions on the green beans package. If using canned green beans, just drain and set aside.
- In a cast iron skillet or any skillet, fry bacon until crispy. Once it’s done, remove the bacon and cool on a plate with a paper towel. Once it is cooled break bacon into little pieces.
- Add the minced garlic to the pan with the mushrooms and cook for an additional 2 minutes.
- In a large bowl mix together the green beans, cream of mushroom soup, half and half, crumbled bacon, mushrooms, salt, pepper, and 2 cups of fried onions.
- Lightly grease a 2.5-quart casserole dish.
- Pour the green Pour the green bean mixture into a casserole dish.
- Cook at 350 degrees for 25- 30 minutes or until mixture is hot and bubbling.
- Add remaining fried onions (1/2 cup) on top of casserole and cook for an additional 5 minutes.
Details
Seriously, once you try this recipe you will want to make it for every holiday. I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we do.
Expert Tips
- You can double this recipe and use a 13×9 inch pan instead of the 2-5 quart casserole dish.
- If you aren’t a fan of mushrooms, leave them out.
- If you are making this dish and traveling, leave the French Fried onion toppings off until you arrive at your destination and bake for the remaining time.
Other Casserole Dishes You May Like
Bacon Green Bean Casserole
Ingredients
- 24 oz. green beans fresh or canned. for canned use 2 – 14.5 oz. cans of french style green beans, or regular styled, drained.
- 2 10 ounce cans of cream of mushroom condensed soup
- 8 slices of bacon, cooked
- 2 cups of fresh mushrooms, sliced
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 1 cup half and half
- Salt and Peper to taste
- 2 1/2 cups French's Fried Onions divided. Save 1/2 cup for topping.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Boil fresh green beans in a saucepan for approximitly 5 minutes on medium – high heat. Or follow instructions on green beans package. If using canned green beans, just drain and set aside.
- In a cast iron skillet or use any skillet, fry bacon until crispy. Once it's done, remove bacon and cool on plate with a paper towel. Once it is cooled break bacon into little pieces.
- In the same skillet used for bacon, remove the majority of the grease leaving just a little. Add fresh sliced mushtooms and cook for 3 minutes.
- Add the minced garlic to the pan with the mushrooms and cook for an additional 2 minutes.
- In a large bowl mix together the green beans, cream of mushroom soup, half and half, crumbled bacon, mushrooms, salt, pepper and 2 cups of fried onions.
- Lightly grease a 2.5 quart casserole dish.
- Pour the green bean mixture into a casserole dish.
- Cook at 350 degrees for 25- 30 minutes or until mixture is hot and bubbling.
- Add remaining fried onions (1/2 cup) on top of casserole and cook for an additional 5 minutes.
Nutrition
Looks like a great recipe but you have whipping cream listed then you call it half and half … I cook a lot so I can adjust to that but a newby baker might get all rattled! Just an FYI
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanks for catching that Nancy. I corrected it. Happy Thanksgiving!