Green Bean Bundles
Fresh green beans are wrapped with bacon and a special brown sugar soy sauce is drizzled over them.
Ingredients
- 1 poundthin fresh green beans
- ½ poundthin-cut bacon (sliced in half)
- ½ cupbutter
- ⅓ cupbrown sugar
- 1 tablespoonworcestershire sauce
- ½ teaspoongarlic powder
- ¼ teaspooncayenne pepper
Directions
- 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- 2
Wash green beans and carefully lay them on a paper towel and place them in the microwave to steam for about 90 seconds. Alternatively, blanch them for 3-5minutes. Place them in an ice bath to stop the cooking process.
- 3
Sauté bacon until it is almost done, about 3 minutes. Undercook the bacon, as it will finish cooking in the oven.
- 4
In a small saucepan combine butter, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, and cayenne. Cook and stir until butter and brown sugar melt and blend.
- 5
Bundle 5 to 6 green beans by wrapping them with a piece of bacon. Secure bacon with a toothpick, and place into a 9 x 13-inch baking dish. Repeat with remaining beans.
- 6
Drizzle seasoned butter sauce over each green bean bundle.
- 7
Bake green bean bundles until the bacon is crisp, 10 - 15 minutes. Before serving, drizzle the remaining sauce over the bacon bundles.