Bacon wrapped green beans and carrot bundles with brown sugar and garlic butter is a sleeper side dish that will knock your socks off! This recipe for bacon wrapped green beans can easily be made ahead and replace the holiday traditional green bean casserole and nobody will care because they are so amazingly tasty.
The Throwdown: Bacon Wrapped Green Beans
Checking out the competition for bacon green bean bundles we found several recipes that are worth mentioning.
All Recipes @tellinglaurel gets high marks and 4 and a half stars for their version of bacon wrapped green beans. We particularly liked the addition of rosemary in the brown sugar, which added a really nice layer and hint of flavor. We think we can improve on the recipe by using fresh green beans instead of frozen.
Susie Bullock from Hey Grill Hey has a great recipe with a barbecue twist that we really enjoyed. She uses a little soy sauce in the brown sugar baste and then smokes the green bean bundle before finishing on the grill. We love the idea of adding some smoke, but we want this recipe to be a little easier for the home cook and maybe even make ahead. We will try that recipe next summer after we break out the grill.
Today on Throwdown Kitchen, we start this throwdown recipe with America’s best bacon from Vande Rose Farms. If you’ve decided to go out on a limb and replace the traditional green bean casserole, you better begin with some great ingredients!
What You’ll Need For This Recipe: It’s All About The Bacon
For this recipe, start with the star of the show: Vande Rose Farms Applewood Smoked Bacon. Then you will need green beans, carrots, garlic, brown sugar and butter. A pinch of Tajin Seasoning will finish this amazing side dish for the dinner table.
How To Make Bacon Wrapped Green Beans and Carrot Bundles
Start this recipe for bacon wrapped green beans and carrots by preheating your oven to 400 degrees. Place the bacon on a rack over a pan lined with parchment. Par baked the bacon for 5 to 6 minutes. Just enough to render a little of the bacon fat. Remove the bacon from the oven and set the strips aside on paper towels. Drain away the rendered bacon grease, but save the parchment paper sheet.
Bring a pot of salted water to a boil and blanch the green beans for 2 to 3 minutes. After the beans have cooked , drain the beans and immediately submerge them in iced water. This will stop the cooking and also give the beans great color.
Bring a second pot of salted water to a boil and blanch the carrots for 2 to 3 minutes. After the carrots have cooked, drain them and immediately submerge them in iced water. This will stop the cooking and also leave the carrots with great color.
Pat the beans and the carrots dry with paper towels.
In a small bowl, mix the minced garlic and melted butter.
Wrap 4 green beans and 3 carrots sticks with a piece of bacon and secure with a toothpick.
Spoon the garlic and butter over the vegetable bundles. Sprinkle brown sugar over each bacon wrapped vegetable bundle, and then sprinkle Tajin seasoning on top.
Place the vegetable bundles back on the rack of a parchment lined sheet pan.
Bake at 400 degrees F for 20-25 minutes or until bacon is crispy.
Watch How We Made This Recipe
Bacon Wrapped Green Beans with Brown Sugar Glaze
Equipment
- Baking Pan
- Parchment Paper
- Pot
- Oven
Ingredients
- 8 Slices Bacon
- 8 Ounces Green beans fresh
- 8 Ounces Carrots fresh
- 2 Tbsp Brown Sugar
- 1 Tbsp Minced Garlic
- 6 Tbsp Butter
- 1 Tbsp Tajin
Instructions
- Start this recipe for bacon wrapped green beans and carrots by preheating your oven to 400 degrees. Place the bacon on a rack with a parchment lined baking pan and par bake the bacon for 5 to 6 minutes. Just enough to render a little of the bacon fat. Remove the bacon from the oven and set the strips aside on paper towels. Drain away the rendered bacon grease, but save the parchment paper sheet.
- Bring a pot of salted water to a boil and blanch the green beans for 2 to 3 minutes. After the beans have cooked, drain the beans and immediately submerge them in iced water. This will stop the cooking and also give the beans great color.
- Bring a second pot of salted water to a boil and blanch the carrots for 2 to 3 minutes. After the carrots have cooked, drain them and immediately submerge them in iced water. This will stop the cooking and also leave the carrots with great color.
- Pat the beans and the carrots dry with paper towels.
- In a small bowl, mix the minced garlic and melted butter.
- Wrap 4 green beans and 3 carrots sticks with a piece of bacon and secure with a toothpick.
- Spoon the garlic butter mixture over the green bean and carrots. Then sprinkle each bundle with brown sugar and Tajin seasoning.
- Place the vegetable bundles back on the parchment lined sheet pan.
- Bake at 400 degrees F for 20-25 minutes, or until bacon is crispy.
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