Green Beans with Bacon, Blue Cheese, and Walnuts

Kick up your dinner sides with these green beans with bacon, blue cheese and walnuts. This combo of great flavors is a great addition to your dinner

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Keyword green beans, green beans bacon, chesse and nuts, green beans with bacon

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 30

Total Time 35

Servings

Calories 322kcal

Author Glitter and Graze

Ingredients

12 oz fresh green beans
2 TBSP balsamic vinegar
2 TBSP olive oil
3/4 TBSP Honey

Topping

1/2 cup bacon
1/2 cup blue cheese crumbles
1 cup walnuts
1 TBSP sesame seed oil

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Mix together green beans, balsamic vinegar, honey and olive oil and lay out on a baking sheet and cook for 30 minutes
Half way through the green beans cooking add sesame seed oil to a pan over medium heat
Once at temperature add walnuts and cook for 3 minutes stirring the whole time.
Next add bacon and cook for another 3 minutes stirring the whole time.
Turn off burner and add blue cheese. I suggest only adding half and then add the other half once off the burner.
Take green beans out of the oven, plate and then top with the topping mixture

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Notes

So blue cheese does melt fast believe it or not. So you want to add this last and I even suggest adding only half to get melted and then the other half right before serving. Totally up to you.

If your making individual plates put a serving of green beans on each plate and top with the topping mix so it can keep that beautiful display.

If you have the extra time you can cook up some fresh bacon and chop it up, but if you want to make things easier buy some bacon crumbles

Pecans would be a great substitute here. You could even use some shaved or chopped almonds.

Or maybe blue cheese is too strong for you. Think of a great crumble cheese such as feta.

Maybe you want to go the vegetarian route and totally omit the bacon. The recipe still tastes great without using bacon

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