Country Ranch Green Beans and Potatoes have lots of crumbled bacon and ranch seasoning mixed in for a truly flavorful southern side. Pair this delicious veggie side dish with chicken, steak, or pork. It also goes great with fried catfish.
Canned Green Bean Recipe
This is a simple, easy recipe for stretching that last can of green beans in the pantry.
How To Make
Start by pan frying a few diced red potatoes in a mixture of bacon grease and butter. This gives the potatoes maximum flavor. Then add a chopped vidalia onion and keep cooking until the potatoes are soft.
Add a drained can of green beans, a little ranch seasoning, some black pepper, and a good amount of crumbled bacon. Let everything get warm and it is ready to be served.
Country Ranch Green Beans and Potatoes Recipe Tips
You’ll have to be careful about how much ranch seasoning you add because it is salty. Start with 1 teaspoon and go from there. Keep adding a little until you get the flavor you like.
You can leave the bacon grease out and just use butter if you prefer.
More Green Bean Recipes
- Sweet and Sour Green Beans
- Green Bean Bundles
- Crispy Fried Green Beans
- Southern Style Green Beans
- Slow Cooker Barbecued Green Beans
- Candied Green Beans
- Skinny Southern Green Beans
Watch the short video below to see how easy this recipe is to make.
Country Ranch Green Beans and Potatoes
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons bacon grease
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 medium red potatoes,, cut into a 1/2-inch dice
- 1 small sweet onion, , diced
- 1 (14-ounce) can green beans,, drained
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Ranch seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 4 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce, optional
Instructions
- Heat bacon grease and butter over medium-high heat in a large pan.
- Add potatoes and cook for 7 minutes, flipping them over halfway through.
- Add onion and cook 3 to 5 more minutes, until potatoes are soft.
- Add remaining ingredients and stir. Let everything warm through and then remove from heat and serve.
Notes
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Originally published May 17, 2018.
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Can you tell me what is Ranch seasoning? Is it what I use to make the dressing? Guess I am somewhat slow on this one. Recipe sounds wonderful I am sure my family will love it. Thanks for your efforts and sharing.
I use the Hidden Valley packets that are in the salad dressing section of the store.
It was a hit, reminded me of when I was a child eating at my grandmothers house.❤️
I made this last night and it was a big hit. Will be making again. Thanks for the recipe! 🙂
Definitely will be making this a lot at my house. Everythings better with Ranch, right?!
Such an easy and delicious side will be making it again soon.
This is the easiest, most delicious, country ranch green bean potato dish I have ever made. I’m sending this to my family and friends. Yum yum yum.
This was awesome and I will definitely make this again. Anybody have any idea on the nutrition info for it? Obviously it’s not low calorie, but if somebody has it, it would save me from trying to figure it out!
Tasty recipe, but I put ranch powder in a lot of things. There’s nothing proprietary about this recipe. [*shrug*]
This is basically my recipe with almost the same title even, and one of my most popular on my blog. Would you mind awfully much giving me credit and a link-back? I would very much appreciate it. Thank you! 🙂
http://wildflourskitchen.com/2014/07/07/country-ranch-green-beans-n-potatoes-bacon/
Thank you for your comment. I was going to pin this, but I will go to your blog and pin from the source instead.
Every other recipe blogger has this recipe, or one similar that uses ranch seasoning. Not sure what that lady is referring to about receiving credit??! ButThank you for sharing your version Christin, I’m gonna try it!
You are welcome to leave your link here, but I counted 5 differences in ingredients/amount of ingredients which is a lot for such a simple and basic recipe.
This looks absolutely delicious.. have to try it!