Southern Green Beans

We love our green beans, and they show up every couple weeks at a minimum and go great with most meals.

Very simple, but you’ll need a little hardware. And Kudos to Grandmom Janet that helped us get them right.

Ingredients:

1 pile of green beans

1/2 sweet onion, diced. Usually we have some pre-diced onion in the freezer.

1/4 red bell pepper, diced. Usually we have red bell pepper pre-diced in the freezer.

1 pack of Jamon (ham) seasoning, or a chicken bullion cube (broken up, use Knorrs)

2 Tbs diced ham or bacon (optional) we include this if we have some laying around.

Dash of poultry seasoning

Instructions

Snap the ends off the beans. Wash them.

In a pressure cooker (top not on yet), heat up 1 cup of water (filtered, if possible) with your red bell pepper, onion, poultry seasoning and seasoning choice (Jamon or bullion). Put in beans and ‘shwoosh’ around to coat.

Close cooker and when it’s at it’s release (hssssss) temp, drop it to medium temp and cook for 8 minutes. Take off heat and open up the pressure release to bring it down. We’ve found if you cook your beans more than 8 minutes, they’re too soft. You may find that 6 minutes is fine. We take our weight off the cooker AND release the pressure using the valve both at the same time so cooking stops just after 8 minutes.