Glazed Bacon Wrapped Green-beans

Thanksgiving 2014:

The most delicious Thanksgiving ever!

This year, I found a few new recipes to use 

and I will say, they were all winners mainly because 

they were all from scratch, everyone participated

in helping this year and they were all delicious!

Here's what our menu consisted of:

Brined and Herb Roasted Turkey

Country Mashed Potatoes with Turkey Gravy

Homemade Herbed Dressing (Stuffing)

Candied Sweet Potatoes

Glazed Bacon Wrapped Green-beans

Buttermilk Biscuits

and

Cinnamon Cranberry Sauce

If I had to pick just one favorite, it would be the

Bacon wrapped green-beans.

 I cannot wait to make these again because

they are so pretty, fairly easy to make and so delicious!

Hopefully next year, we'll be using our own beans.

As usual, I made some modifications to the original recipe.

Glazed Bacon Wrapped Green-beans 

*10 slices of pre-cooked smoked bacon (I used Costco brand)

1.5 pounds of fresh French green-beans 

Glaze:

4 tablespoons of butter

1 teaspoon sea salt (table salt is fine)

1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder

4 tablespoons of brown sugar, packed

2 tablespoons maple syrup

fresh cracked black pepper, to taste

*Using the pre-cooked bacon omitted a step of pre-cooking raw bacon.

It's a great time saver especially when you are cooking so many other things.

You can increase the number of servings accordingly. Glaze can be doubled, as well.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

1. Wash and trim your green beans (just cut the ends off)

2. Bring a large pot of water to a rolling boil.

3. Have a large bowl with ice water waiting to put the beans in after they blanch.

4. Blanch green-beans by cooking them in the water for 3-4 minutes

5. Quickly remove and drain (use tongs) from heat and put them into the ice water

to stop them from cooking. They will still be crisp.

6. In a small saucepan, melt butter then add the remainder of ingredients.

Stir until sugar is dissolved and mixture is hot.

7.  Lay your bacon out and place about 8-10 green-beans (in a bundle) in the center 

and roll tightly making sure not to break the bacon and placing the seam down.

Place on baking sheet with sides (jelly roll pan works great).

8. Drizzle a spoonful of sugar glaze onto each bundle.

9. Roast beans for 20-25 minutes.

Allow to rest for 5 minutes before serving.

**These can easily be assembled ahead of time by preparing

the green-beans and wrapping them with bacon. Place in refrigerator

until ready to glaze and bake.

These are so delicious with the smoky sweet

flavor of the bacon and glaze and they 

look like a million bucks!

I wish I knew how to clip around the recipe so you could print

it easily. Can anyone give me some pointers?

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with

your family. We sure did!