Cracker Barrel Green Beans are an irresistible side dish you can recreate at home. The green beans are a side dish not to be missed. These beans have a wonderful smokey flavor with the bacon. Every time I go and order these green beans I am instantly transformed into my Grandmother’s kitchen at a Sunday dinner.
One reason so many of us go to Cracker Barrel is their hashbrown casserole, but they are also known for the huge variety of side dishes. They serve over 10 different side dishes for you to enjoy.
Unlike some restaurants, all of their food is made fresh in their kitchen. This is one of the places so many of us go when we want to recreate the experience of a sit-down family dinner or a dinner that our Grandparents would serve.
Who doesn’t love the classic side dish of green beans? Cracker Barrel is known for its flavorful green beans that are seasoned with bacon and onions.
This is an easy and flavorful side dish you can make at home. It requires so few ingredients that it is an inexpensive dish for you to make.
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Ingredients
Simple ingredients are all you need to recreate this side dish Cracker Barrel is known for.
Here’s a list of what you need:
- Bacon
- Canned green beans
- White onion
- Sugar
- Salt
- Fresh ground pepper
How to Make Cracker Barrel Green Beans
- In a 2-quart saucepan over medium heat, cook bacon until lightly brown but not crisp.
- Add green beans, salt, sugar, and pepper. Stir to combine.
- Place onion on top of the green beans.
- Cover with a lid and bring to a light boil.
- Turn heat down to low and simmer for 45 minutes.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Green Beans
I must say, I love a variety of vegetables at every meal, but these green beans can be on my plate several times a week.
Love Cracker Barrel? Check out these copycat recipes!
- Cucumber Tomato and Onion Salad
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- Meatloaf with Ritz Crackers
- Mushroom Pot Roast
- Southern Fried Chicken
- Sunday Chicken
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- Chicken Gravy
- Cornmeal Mush
- Crockpot Cheesy Potatoes
- Fried Potatoes and Onions
- Homemade Coleslaw
- Mixed Vegetables
- Red Potatoes
You can find many more vegetable side dish recipes and the best copycat Cracker Barrel recipes here on CopyKat!
Copycat Cracker Barrel Green Beans
Ingredients
- ¼ pound bacon
- 42 ounces green beans (3 cans)
- ¼ cup white onion chopped
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon fresh ground pepper
Instructions
- In a 2-quart saucepan over medium heat, cook bacon until lightly brown but not crisp.
- When the bacon has browned, add green beans, salt, sugar, and pepper and mix well.
- Place onion on top of green beans.
- Cover with a lid and bring to a light boil.
- Turn heat down to low and simmer beans for 45 minutes. Cooking the green beans for 45 minutes on a very low simmer will blend the flavors.
John Fuller
After cooking the bacon is the grease drained off? In adding the beans do you use the liquid
and all from the bean cans? Adding the liquid from the cans of beans would tend to make the
bacon grease float when sitting in the pan.
Stephanie Manley
If the green beans are hot, and when they are being heated in the pan, the bacon grease will go into the liquid, but you are right when this is cold the bacon grease will go straight to the top.
Melanie
That looks nothing like the green beans at Cracker Barrel, but it tastes just like them.
Stephanie
Thank you for your comment.
Lori
Am I missing the actual recipe?
Mike
Not sure why 90% of these copy cat recipes call for adding sugar. Cracker Barrel NEVER adds sugar. As a 5 year past manager of Cracker Barrel the recipe calls for 3 large cans of green beans- drained; 1 chub (about 5 lbs) green bean seasoning- a mixture of bacon lard, sausage lard and pieces(this is melted down and provides the liquid); bacon pieces (about 2 lbs); salt and pepper to taste. The green beans are then slowly cooked for 2 hours.
Eddie Wayne Wells
Thank you, thank you, thank you for giving us the straight recipe. I knew all these bloggers had it wrong because they all tailor it to what they like or think is good. If you even pay any attention to the beans, you will see how dark and shiny that they are. This comes from the seasoning that they use……bacon lard and sausage lard…all ham flavoring. You can buy bacon lard and ham lard on Amazon. This is what I plan to do. Can’t wait to try it. Eddie Wells
Stephanie
For me it is important to duplicate the recipe as best as I can the way it is served in the restaurant.
sandra johnson
Hi Mike. I know you posted your comment last year but I’m just now seeing it.
I love some of the dishes made at Cracker Barrel and want to make them at home.
How are the fried chicken tenderloins made? This is what I order any time I go to CB. I get the tenderloins, green beans, pinto beans and mashed potatoes.
Bob harris
My beans always taste like the can! What brand of beans do you use?
Connie
God bless you for that! I look forward to making this on Thanksgiving. I just love Cracker Barrel’s green beans. I’m looking forward to some tasty side dishes this year. Any other suggestions for a good vegetable dish that can be made, or at least prepared, ahead of time would be appreciated.
Stephanie
Have you ever done this in the crockpot? I work 8-5 and don’t have the time to make the beans right before dinner. 🙁 I was thinking cooking the bacon on the stove and then adding it all to the crockpot.
pat evans
Sounds great.. do you leave the bacon in the green beans or remove it after cooking?
Sharon
I love these from Crackle Barrel…how many slices of bacon is 1/4 pound?
Stephanie
Is your bacon thick cut or thin cut?
stephaniemanley
Is the bacon thick or thin sliced? It depends on the thickness of the bacon. If your package of bacon is 12 ounces, it is about 1/3 of the package of bacon.
Jill
Would fresh green beans work?
stephaniemanley
You can use them, you will need to cook them a little longer.
Sharon Guidry
WE LOVE EATING AT CRACKER BARREL AND ALWAYS ALWAYS HAVE THE GREEN BEANS ………
Lindsbillinger
i added the onions while frying the bacon and added more salt and pepper than what it calls for. Other than that, it was great, just like my grandma used to make!
Anonymous
I used the bacon grease in the beans.
Louise
Do you use the bacon grease or discard it after the bacon is cooked?
Shannon
Do you chop the onion up or just put the whole chunk of onion in the beans?
Stephanie
This onion piece should be chopped.
Elena
I made two huge pans of this fantastic recipe for a big Christmas dinner at my sister-in-law’s house today. My kitchen smelled JUST LIKE Cracker Barrel while the beans were cooking and they tasted identical. So easy and so good, I will never make green beans any other way again!