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Braised Green Beans with Bacon
Southern-style green beans braised for an hour with slab-bacon lardons, garlic, chilli flakes, stock, cider vinegar and a little sugar until meltingly soft and deeply savoury, the opposite of crisp al dente beans.
- YieldServes 4 to 6
- Hands-on25 min
- Total1 h 24 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
- 225 gslab bacon, cut into 2.5 × 1 cm lardons
- 1 tbspvegetable oil
- 120 mlwater
- 3 clovesgarlic, thinly sliced
- ½ tspred chilli flakes
- 120 mllow-sodium chicken stock
- 680 ggreen (string) beans, topped and tailed
- 60 mlcider vinegar, divided
- 1 tbspgranulated sugar
- to tastekosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
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