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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Thank you for this recipe! It is a huge hit every time I make it and I can’t stop craving it. I don’t make any adjustments as it is perfect for us! I recommend this year round side to anyone looking to try something new that will have people talking!
Can these be cooked on the stove top instead of crock pot ( for faster cooking time ) ?
Absolutely!
Looks delicious! What is the rest of the nutrition vales? More specifically, carbs.
Have you tried the recipe without the bacon? Asking for us vegetarians.
I haven’t, but you could definitely make it that way.
This look great! I’m thinking about adding baked beans along with everything else, do you think that would work?
I’m using sweet baby rays hickory and town sugar bbq sauce, should I cut out the brown sugar since the sauce has it in there?
Hi was wondering if u can make this the night before for a dinner the following day at 2pm Or should I partially make this by making bacon tonight and do rest in the early am? What’s your thoughts not a lot of time in the am? Thank u!!
I was wondering same thing (about preparing night before)…
Delicious!!!Hi, Thanks for this delicious green bean recipe. My husband just brought me a crockpot. I’m 33 yrs old and we will be celebrating our 14 yr anniversary on Dec 14. n he said it was time for me a crockpot. I also added a tbsp. each of bellpepper and celery. I cooked the barbecue green beans Sunday with homemade yeast rolls, meatloaf, and mashed potatoes. I highly recommend everyone to try this recipe
How would the recipe adjust if I used frozen green beans instead?
If you defrost them ahead of time, which I would recommend, no need to make any adjustments.
I am so excited to make these, however, I too would like to use fresh French green beans. Any ideas on cooking adjustment times? I too plan to add celery, bell peppers, a bit of jalapeño and possibly BBQ beans…… too much? Thoughts plz
These were so dang good, and such a nice change in flavor. So easy too! These are one of my new favorite ways to prepare green beans. I love it so much and it went so well with the meal I prepared for a Sunday dinner, that I’m mentioning and linking to it over on my blog. Thank you so much for this recipe. Everyone loved them!
So glad everyone loved them Christine!