Southern Style Green Beans (Instant Pot) combine bacon and southern seasonings to quickly get your favorite veggie from prep to table.
Southern Style Green Beans (Instant Pot)
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
Southern Style Green Beans (Instant Pot) is my recipe of the day with my blogging group Multicooker Monday. We gang up on you with our favorite recipes for small appliances on the third Monday of the month.
Some of the recipes will be for the Instant Pot, some for the slow cooker, air fryer, toaster oven, sous vide, you name it.
I am expanding my pressure cooker recipes with this one for green beans. It is in the typical southern style. Which means it is very tender and not crisp at all. The idea is to have them in a jus, or pot likker, which is good for dunking bread or serving next to corn bread.
The seasoning is for jowl bacon or any type of fatty bacon. The fat helps season and adds flavor.
Multicooker Monday January 2021:
Recipes using Small Kitchen Appliances
- Air Fryer Salmon from Making Miracles
- Air Fryer Taquitos from A Day in the Life on the Farm
- Beef and Mushroom Bourguignon – Instant Pot from Food Lust People Love
- Game Day Crockpot Frozen Chicken Breasts from Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice
- Nepali Style Vegetable Pulao-Pressure Cooker from Sneha’s Recipe
- Port Braised Short Ribs (Instant Pot) from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
- Pumpkin Pie Spiced Vegan Pumpkin and Green Gram Curry from Magical Ingredients
- Southern Style Green Beans (Instant Pot) from Palatable Pastime (You are Here!)
Southern Style Green Beans (Instant Pot)
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Southern Style Green Beans (Instant Pot)
The green beans make a perfect side dish for any Southern cuisine entree. Take your pick because they go with everything.
And using the Instant Pot also helps free up your stove as well as your time so you can concentrate on your main dish, whatever it may be.

Southern Style Green Beans (Instant Pot)
Equipment
- Instant Pot or Electric Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- 1 pound fresh green beans trimmed
- 3-1/2 ounces diced jowl bacon or fatty bacon
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 medium red onion (chopped)
- 3 cloves chopped garlic
- 1-1/2 cups chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon Cajun spice mix
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- hot sauce (optional; after cooking)
Instructions
- Set machine to saute function and brown the bacon, onion and garlic in the tablespoon of butter.
- Add the chicken broth and spices, stirring to deglaze the bottom of cooker.
- Add trimmed green beans.
- Place cover on cooker and lock, setting valve closed.
- Cook on manual/high for seven minutes.
- Use the quick release and open lid only after steam has subsided completely.
- Season with hot sauce to taste.
Notes
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I don’t normally think of using the instant pot for veggies but for a dish like this that normally needs to cook slowly and takes time, the instant pot is perfect.
What a delicious sounding dish! I’ve never had southern style green beans. I need to give these a try. I mean… bacon!
The only way to eat green beans! Southern-Style! It’s the one veggie I like super-soft!
This is a delicious beans. Love the green color and would like to try ASAP.
So gorgeous and flavorful. YUM