I make this with our home-canned green beans, but canned green beans from your grocery store cook down nicely with a little help from a ham hock. The recipe says to cook these for 30 minutes. I would really say just to cook them to death, but 30 minutes sounds sweeter.
Recipe information
Yield
serves 4
Ingredients
2 quarts home-canned green beans or canned Blue Lake variety, with their liquid
1/2 pound cured ham hock (see Note)
Preparation
Step 1
Put the beans, their liquid, and the ham in a large, heavy saucepan. Cook, uncovered, on medium heat for 30 minutes. The beans are ready when the liquid has cooked down.
Note
Step 2
Salt pork or Goya Ham-Flavored Seasoning may be substituted for the ham hock.
Reprinted with permission from Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen: Recipes from My Family to Yours by Trisha Yearwood with Gwen Yearwood and Beth Yearwood Bernard. Copyright © 2008 by Trisha Yearwood. Published by Crown Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved.
Trisha Yearwood is a three-time Grammy-award winning country music star and the author of the bestselling cookbook Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen. She is married to megastar Garth Brooks.
