Basic Pot of Pole Beans

Name: Basic Pot of Pole Beans
Yield: 8 servings (serving size: about 1 cup)
Ingredients: 3 bacon slices; 1 cup chopped onion; ¼ teaspoon salt; ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 3 (14-ounce) cans fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth; 1 ½ pounds pole beans, trimmed and cut in half crosswise

5 Ratings
5 Reviews

"Pole beans" is just another term for large green beans. Serve this basic side dish with anything you'd normally have with green beans. The bacon, chicken broth, chopped onion, and seasonings give these beans great flavor.

By Julie Grimes

Recipe by Cooking Light July 2005

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Credit: Beau Gustafson

Recipe Summary

Yield:

8 servings (serving size: about 1 cup)

Nutrition Info

Ingredients

3 bacon slices
1 cup chopped onion
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
3 (14-ounce) cans fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth
1 ½ pounds pole beans, trimmed and cut in half crosswise

Directions

Step 1
Cook bacon in a large Dutch oven over medium heat until crisp. Remove bacon from pan, reserving 1 teaspoon drippings in pan. Crumble bacon; set aside. Add onion to drippings in pan; cook 3 minutes, stirring frequently. Add bacon, salt, and remaining ingredients; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer, uncovered, 25 minutes or until beans are tender.

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Chef's Notes

Long, often flat, large green beans are sold in most grocery stores as "pole beans." Because they are tougher and more fibrous than regular green beans, cooking pole bean takes longer than common green beans.

Nutrition Facts

Per Serving:

63 calories; calories from fat 26%; fat 1.8g; saturated fat 0.6g; mono fat 0.5g; poly fat 0.2g; protein 4.1g; carbohydrates 8.8g; fiber 3.8g; cholesterol 3mg; iron 1.3mg; sodium 370mg; calcium 45mg.

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brushjl

10/18/2017

way to much broth, but the cooking time was about right.

DecaturAla

11/02/2013

If you want your pole beans rubbery, then by by all means cook them 30 minutes. Mama always said pole beans are tough; that's why we Southerners cook them for hours.

zildraw

10/21/2012

This is the way to do pole or half runner beans. I needed a way to use half runners I got in my CSA box. We'd never had these before. These were great. I just eyeballed the chicken broth, you don't need as much as the recipe calls for. And I had a red onion on hand, so that's what I used. Bacon and onion - how could it go wrong? I may even seek these beans out just to have this recipe again!

steponme

03/26/2012

Sooo good. Reminded me of the holidays the way my mother use to make fresh green beans when I was little.

Keiko123

03/05/2012

This is how my Polish mother used to make beans, except she'd use salt pork and much less chicken broth and allow the beans to cook in their own juice. That would keep the sodium level down. But it's the basic way she always made beans from the garden.

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