Slow Cooker Barbecued Green Beans are sweet and tangy bbq green beans with lots of smoky bbq flavor. Made from canned beans, they are a cinch to make and are a great side dish for potlucks and family meals. They are kind of like the flavor of baked beans, only with green beans. What’s not to love about that?
BBQ Green Beans
I love the flavor of bbq sauce. It is like ketchup to me. I even use it as pizza sauce. It’s definitely a good complement for green beans.
I find recipes featuring green beans are very popular. Southern-Style Green Beans and Sweet and Sour Green Beans are two of the most popular recipes on Spicy Southern Kitchen. As much as I love both recipes, I think this Slow Cooker Barbecued Green Beans recipe is my favorite. It’s almost like green bean candy.
How To Make Canned Green Beans Taste Homemade
This recipe turns canned green beans into a side dish that tastes homemade. With a bunch of extra flavors added, no one will guess you started with canned beans. Be sure to try these other canned green bean recipes: Rotel Green Beans and Candied Green Beans.
How To Make
(More detailed instructions below.)
The canned green beans are slow cooked with ketchup, brown sugar, BBQ sauce (use your favorite) and Worcestershire sauce. And bacon. Lots of bacon. I like to add just a touch of cayenne pepper to balance the sweetness some.
Four to five hours in the crock pot on LOW and the green beans are coated in the most amazing sweet and tangy flavor!
Can I Use Fresh Or Frozen Beans?
Yes! If using fresh, either blanch them before adding them to the slow cooker or cook them a little longer in the slow cooker. If using frozen, thaw them first.
More Slow Cooker Side Dishes
- Crock Pot Buttery Bacon Green Beans– another great slow cooker green bean recipe!
- Slow Cooker Baby Carrots
- Slow Cooker White Beans
- Slow Cooker Garlic Parmesan Potatoes
Slow Cooker Barbecued Green Beans
Equipment
Ingredients
- 8 slices thick-cut bacon
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup BBQ sauce
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 4 (14.5-ounce) cans green beans,, drained
Instructions
- Chop bacon and cook it in a large nonstick pan. Remove bacon and set aside.
- Discard all but 2 tablespoons bacon grease. Add onion to bacon grease left in pan and cook until soft.
- In a medium bowl, stir together ketchup, brown sugar, BBQ sauce, Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper, and cayenne pepper.
- Add green beans to a lightly greased 4 to 6 quart crock pot.
- Add onions along with any bacon grease left in pan to crock pot.
- Pour ketchup mixture on top and stir in.
- Sprinkle bacon on top. Cover crock pot and cook on LOW for 4 to 5 hours.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Have you ever tried turkey bacon as a substitute?
I haven’t but you could certainly use it.
I’m going to try chicken bacon we get here at Walmart. I’m allergic to pork. I’ll let you know.
Love this!! Always looking for new ways to fix green beans because it’s one of the few veggies I can get my hubby to eat. Thanks for this! Perfect potluck faire too.
Yes! It is perfect for potlucks.
I made this dish for my family reunion yesterday. Everyone loved it! Does anyone know how to cut the portions, say for one can of green beans? There are just the two of us, and this recipe is too large for us.
I think I would just cut all ingredients in half and use 2 cans of beans Lana. Leftovers reheat well.
I’m going to do this recipe hope I like them to add to my Thanksgiving menu. Always looking for new exciting recipes to try send me something my Pint rest friends
I’d like to use fresh green beans. Would using the crockpot on high cook them?
I haven’t tried that so I’m not really sure. Let us know if you try it!
Sorry, didn’t read previous posts.
Couldn’t I use fresh beans in this seeing as how it’s cooking 4-5 hours?
This recipes sounds delicious! I would like to use fresh green beans instead of canned. Do I need to adjust the recipe or cooking time?
If using fresh, I would go ahead and steam them or boil them until they are crisp-tender and then proceed.
Do you have to drain the green beans? I’m trying this recipe today and I’m so excited!
Yes, drain the beans. Hope you enjoy it!
OMG I’m making this for a group of campers this Saturday and I had your same question about to drain or not to drain 🙂 thank you
Man these sound yummy, but have recently found green beans from Delray Beach Florida, they are the best ever, always so tender and if you steam them for a 15 mins they are perfect. This sounds so good but think these may be like much. Have to think about how to alter the receipt, made them before with bacon but not with the sugar, and other ingredients.