Sweet and Sour Green Beans with Bacon Recipe - These Old Cookbooks (2024)

Sweet and Sour Green Beans with bacon recipe is a fast way to jazz up a regular can of vegetables. Bacon, onions, sugar and vinegar turns a plain can of green beans into a family-pleasing side dish in no time flat.

Sweet and Sour Green Beans Recipe

This is another winner from the cookbook Savory Samplings. Time and time again, I open up the pages to find a recipe that meets my family’s needs.

Sweet and Sour Green Beans with Bacon recipe only has 5 ingredients which is why I love it. Canned green beans, onions, bacon, sugar and vinegar is all it takes.

Many of my go-to recipes have few ingredients including:

Fresh Broccoli Casserole with 5 ingredients

6 Ingredient Hot Crab Dip

3 Ingredient Chicken Salad

4 Ingredient Egg Salad without Mayo

3 Ingredient Spiral Ham

These BLT Bites (stuffed cherry tomatoes) from The Country Cook only have 5 ingredients!

How to Make Sweet and Sour Green Bean Recipe:

For the full sweet southern green bean recipe, scroll to the bottom of this post.

1. Fry up bacon chunks in a skillet until the fat is rendered and the bacon crispy; remove the bacon leaving behind the fat.
2. Saute chopped onions in the bacon fat until soft.
3. Add the remaining ingredients, and simmer until warmed through up to 15 minutes.

Notes About Sweet and Sour Green Beans with Bacon:

• Sweet and Sour Green Beans are also called Sweet Southern Green Beans.
• This recipe makes a smaller portion that feeds 2-4 people; however, you could easily double or triple the recipe if desired.
• This is a 5 ingredient recipe – canned green beans, bacon, onions, vinegar and sugar.
• Do not cook these these sweet southern green beans very long since they are already cooked through. Cook it until flavorful–up to 15 minutes.

Favorite Green Bean Recipes

Looking for some other ways to eat green beans?

Try Slow Cooker Green Beans with Onions and Bacon to serve a crowd or try fixingfresh green beans with andouille sausage. We also love these Pennsylvania Dutch Green Beans with Water Chestnuts.

Want to make green beans the main dish? Try our Zero Point Green Bean Chili or Tasty Green Beans with Ground Beef.