This easy-to-make Barbequed Green Beans recipe is a delicious side dish that is perfect for your summer meals, cookouts, potlucks, and anytime you want to use your fresh-picked beans.
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What kind of green beans to use for this recipe –
- For this recipe, I used fresh Blue Lake Green Beans from the garden. Look for fresh beans at the farmer’s market or even your local grocery store.
- Canned green beans can also be used and will be just as delicious, you will not need to steam these.
- Can you use frozen green beans? Honestly, I have never eaten a frozen green bean so I don’t know if they would work or not.
- The wide flat green beans which are called Italian Green Beans can also be used in this dish.
Try serving these homemade Bread and Butter Pickles next to a dish of these beans, they are crunchy and a bit sweet, and so easy to make. Serve a big wedge of this Cheesy Homemade Cornbread along with your green beans, they just kinda go together. Honestly, this could be a meal itself.
Ingredients
Let’s get to cooking
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Barbequed Green Bean with Ham
Ingredients
- 1 pound Green beans fresh or canned
- ⅓ cup barbecue sauce
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 4 oz. ham, diced
- ½ cup onion, diced
- 1 clove garlic, diced
- 1 tbls. butter
- ¼ cup water
- salt & pepper to taste
Instructions
- Clean and stem the green beans. Slice or snap in half if they are too long
- Heat a large skillet over medium heat then add the oil and saute the diced ham, onion, and garlic until the is ham cooked and lightly browned and the onions are soft. Remove the mixture to a bowl.
- In the same skillet, add the green beans and water. Stir and cover with a lid to steam until tender-crisp, about 7-10 minutes. Stir the green beans around a few times during steaming.
- Stir in the barbecue sauce and add the ham, onions, and garlic to the green beans. Cook over medium-low heat until the barbecue sauce has thickened and coated the green beans for about 10 minutes.I prefer to put the beans in a 350° F. oven and bake for about 15 minutes to caramelize the barbeque sauce.
- Serve warm.
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First Published: Aug 9, 2012… Last Updated: Feb 20, 2021
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From learning to cook on a farm in Indiana to culinary school in California, my passion for food is never-ending. Turning on my oven to bake something for friends and family is my happy place, and I am glad to be here at One Hot Oven sharing both sweet and savory recipes with all my baking friends.
HEATHER PERINE
Green beans are my most favorite vegetable but never thought to pair with ham…I’m drooling. These look crazy good! Making next week!
Jere Cassidy
These green beans are always a hit when I serve them.
Tara
Oh yum! I love how easily these green beans come together. Definitely perfect for the upcoming summer bbq season.
Irina
The first picture is so mouthwatering… I could look at your green beans forever, but it is better to make the recipe. It sounds easy to make and delicious to taste. 🙂
Beth
Yummy! My son and hubby love this recipe! One of our favorite side dishes! Perfect for our chicken nights!
Jere Cassidy
Yep, we like these with fried chicken.
Adrianne
What a simple and tasty combination! I love the addition of the BBQ sauce for extra zing. I can see this being served with just about anything.
Linda
I’m sure this recipe will be a hit at our house. Served with some good
cornbread…OH YUM!
I’ve been making my green beans in my Instant Pot with a little brown sugar, soy sauce, onion and a touch of Better than Bouillon chicken flavor. They are very good but I like to switch things around sometimes, makes food more interesting.
I add a little BBQ sauce to my homemade vegetable soup and it’s delicious. Not so much BBQ sauce that you taste it, you just know that the soup has a delicious flavor.
Jere Cassidy
Never thought to add BBQ sauce to soup but what a good idea.
Elizabeth
These green beans make a perfect side dish! Will definitely be making again, great recipe!
Leslie
I’m always struggling for ways to give my green beans more flavor, but THIS sounds so perfect!!!
Kim Guzman
Oh, yum! I love barbecue but I’ve never thought of mixing the tastes of green beans with it. I’m drooling already. Thanks so much for this idea as I’m sure I’ll be making a lot of use of your recipe this summer.
Patty at Spoonabilities
These green beans look and sound amazing! I’m definitely keeping this recipe for our upcoming summer cookouts (summer will be here before you know it!)
Jere Cassidy
We have been making the green beans forever, we like them so much. And yes, I can’t wait for summer!!!
Beth
Yummy! This looks so delicious and tasty! I can’t wait to make this! My family is going to love this!
Jessica Formicola
Barbecue sauce and green beans is such a genius combination! I can’t wait to make these with dinner this week!
Jere Cassidy
Right, who would think they would go together but the recipe sure is tasty.
Elizabeth
I absolutely love these! I struggle to get excited about eating veggies but these were so tasty and flavorful, I already want to make them again. 😀
Liz
These sound delicious! My mom always boiled green beans with ham when I was growing up!
Jere Cassidy
Me too! Had to convince my mom to make this years ago and now she always adds the bbq sauce.
Adriana
This is a great way to add lots of flavor to green beans. Perfect side dish for any meal, especially now that green beans are in season.
Marthana Sharp
My mother made green beans just like these for the holidays. I just picked some fresh beans from the garden so I am making this recipe tonight.