Pressure Cooker Green Beans

Green beans..glorious green beans!
There is nothing better than ultra flavorful green beans that taste like they have cooked for days. Truth be told, I have been making these green beans for YEARS in the slow cooker every year for Thanksgiving. I would throw them in the slow cooker the evening before and let them cook all night long. However last year, even though I have a pretty detailed Thanksgiving cooking schedule spreadsheet, I forgot to cook the green beans!!!!! Here I am on Thanksgiving morning with NO beans!!
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Scrambling on what to do, I forgot I had a pressure cooker that I never really use. Everyone loves their Instant Pots, but I just never got on the Instant Pot train.
Soooo, I broke out the ol’ pressure cooker and threw everything in there as I would have done in my slow cooker, said a little prayer and shut the lid.

They are super simple to make and now with the recent discovery of my love for my pressure cooker, they don’t take 10+ hours to cook!
Love it!

So here is what you do.

Get you 4 pounds of beautiful fresh green beans..

Trim off those pointy edges.
Pointy edges are no bueno.
It’s a tradition in our family to have all the kids sit down and snap the ends off. But you can certainly trim them with a knife.

Cut them off both sides please.
you can’t have one pointy side and one blunt side. OCD

Now onto the best part in my opinion…BACON. Seriously, don’t even ask me if you can make this recipe without bacon. Bacon is life and bacon is salty delicious flavor!
I like to slice my bacon when it is frozen or semi frozen. Cuts sooooo much easier.

Now throw the bacon and green beans in the pressure cooker.
Don’t they look cozy in there?
I love cozy food.

Another important step for another boost of flavor is to add some chicken STOCK. I much prefer chicken stock over chicken broth. I mean, just look at that color!!! So much flavor in there.

And I throw some water in there too. Truth be told, sometimes I just do all chicken stock, but today I only had 2 cups left.

Then throw in a nice amount kosher salt and pepper. Don’t be shy with them either.

These are in my opinion, the best pressure cooker green beans or slow cooker green beans in all the land. If you like the green beans from Cracker Barrel, you will love these too!

Franklin trying to get in the action 🙂

I hope you enjoy them. I’d love to hear from you if you make them!