frozen baby butter beans

[dyna]

How do you fix yours?

 

[DVCLiz]

Dump them frozen into a saucepan of water, add some salt and pepper and a couple of pats of butter, simmer on medium low heat just until they stop being crunchy. Drain and serve!

 

[minkydog]

Dump them frozen into a saucepan of water, add some salt and pepper and a couple of pats of butter, simmer on medium low heat just until they stop being crunchy. Drain and serve!

My recipe, exactly! I love butterbeans

 

[luvsJack]

Southern style: fry a little bacon in a pot. Once its done, add the butterbeans and water (no idea how much, but maybe half a pot full) bring to a boil and cook until soft, add a pat of butter, salt and pepper.

Sometimes, salted water, beans, butter and a little sugar. Cook until soft.

We tend to like our veggies softer than ya'll do up north.

 

[DVCLiz]

Southern style: fry a little bacon in a pot. Once its done, add the butterbeans and water (no idea how much, but maybe half a pot full) bring to a boil and cook until soft, add a pat of butter, salt and pepper.

Sometimes, salted water, beans, butter and a little sugar. Cook until soft.

We tend to like our veggies softer than ya'll do up north.

Honey child, I am in North Carolina and was raised by a Virginian who grew and froze her own crop of butter beans yearly so we could be sure to have them on Christmas Day Nothin' but Southern here!!! We can't abide mushy beans, though, so I only cook them until they are done, if that makes sense. There's a sweet spot between crunchy and mushy - experiment until you find the texture your family likes.

Oh, for the days of bacon grease - my mom kept a crock of it in the fridge at all times. I don't cook with it much anymore but every now and then I go somewhere and have a helping or two from a big pot of green beans cooked with bacon fat or a ham hock and I am in heaven .

 

[clarabelle]

Instead of the butter I do a little olive oil and then I also add a cube of chicken bullion

 

[Straitlover]

I chop up a little bit of country ham chips (you can buy them in a pack, it's basically the leftover trimmings; lots of flavor w/ very little fat). I fry it a little in the pot, then our some chicken broth in the pot and boil it for a couple of minutes to bring out the flavor of the meat more. Then I add the beans, cover w/ water, bring to a boil and cook for however long is on the package. I do test them before the time listed to make sure they aren't too mushy.

 

[North of Mouse]

Southern style: fry a little bacon in a pot. Once its done, add the butterbeans and water (no idea how much, but maybe half a pot full) bring to a boil and cook until soft, add a pat of butter, salt and pepper.

Sometimes, salted water, beans, butter and a little sugar. Cook until soft.

We tend to like our veggies softer than ya'll do up north.

Honey child, I am in North Carolina and was raised by a Virginian who grew and froze her own crop of butter beans yearly so we could be sure to have them on Christmas Day Nothin' but Southern here!!! We can't abide mushy beans, though, so I only cook them until they are done, if that makes sense. There's a sweet spot between crunchy and mushy - experiment until you find the texture your family likes.

Oh, for the days of bacon grease - my mom kept a crock of it in the fridge at all times. I don't cook with it much anymore but every now and then I go somewhere and have a helping or two from a big pot of green beans cooked with bacon fat or a ham hock and I am in heaven .

There's 'south', then there's 'deep south'!!! In the deep south we (for the most part) cook our veggies longer than even in NC (where I happen to be now), also season them more than they do here.

As for keeping a crock of bacon grease in the fridge - yep, I do that and it makes for the best cooked veggies around - amazingly all my friends like it, but (most, around here) don't season their veggies hardly at all.

 

[dyna]

Butter beans need to be on the mushy side...plop the frozen in boiling water sometimes I season with butter sometimes bacon grease.

 

[tluvstink]

I love butter beans! I throw them in a pot of water with 1 chicken bullion cube and let them cook for at least an hour sometimes longer. I like them soft but not mushy

Terri