what's up you guys it's susie from hey grillhey.com and today i'm showing you one of my
favorite recipes super simple insanely delicious it'll make you look like a pro when it comes to
putting dinner on the table for your family my bacon wrapped green bean bundles let's do it so
you can probably throw down on the grill right you can make a mean main course but to be honest with
you for me the sides make the meal and nothing can take you from backyard zero to backyard hero
faster than putting together a nice composed dish and as much as some people don't like to hear it
that includes vegetables so we're going to take vegetables give them a little spin and they're
going to be fantastic with these green bean bundles so here's what you'll need to get started
i've got my pellet smoker over here preheating to about 425 degrees this will also work on a
gas or a charcoal grill you just need to have two zone cooking because we are rendering bacon
you don't want direct heat so a pellet grill is nice for this because it gives you the drip tray
we also have a pot of water coming up to a boil we're going to add some salt to that so we can
blanch our green beans i have a pound and a half of green beans with the ends trimmed i have about
eight slices of bacon well four slices of bacon cut in half about eight pieces of bacon and then
we have to season our green beans this is a really awesome sweet and savory combination so i have a
half a cup of brown sugar two cloves of garlic two teaspoons of soy sauce three tablespoons of butter
that we're gonna melt and then a little bit of fresh cracked black pepper it's gonna tie it all
together first up i'm gonna add a couple generous teaspoons of salt to our boiling water and then
we're going to pour in our green beans and let those boil for about seven to eight minutes
while our green beans are par cooking i'm gonna put together our seasoning blend
three tablespoons of butter a half a cup of brown sugar
two teaspoons of soy sauce a couple good grinds of our black pepper i like black pepper
and then i'm gonna grate in two cloves of garlic
all right give that a mix it's gonna make like a paste
but when we add in the green beans it's gonna coat around the outside of them real nice
speaking of green beans
i think ours are ready to come out of the water we don't want to overcook them here we just want
to take them to a nice like pretty crispy state still but where they're not overcooked because we
want to wrap and finish cooking them on the grill and crisp the bacon at the same time
now you want to drain these and cool them down completely
if you have a big bowl of ice water you can just submerge them really quickly to
bring the temperature down lucky for me it's pretty cold outside so i'm just going to let
these hang out for a couple minutes cool off and then mix them in our brown sugar
our beans are cool put them right into this pan
and then just gently give them a stir
into this pan this is a bowl people this is i know what things are
evenly coated green beans that means it's time to start wrapping now this recipe will make about
eight to ten individual bundles and i think that most people like to take two so this recipe will
serve four if you make eight bundles uh if you want more than that of course you can double it
it's pretty easy to multiply or tell people to not be stingy or some people only take one green bean
i guess i don't know but people want two they want two okay so we're gonna take a piece of our bacon
have some toothpicks at the ready you're gonna want probably seven or eight
eight to ten eight to ten green beans try to get them pretty even into a little bundle
then you're gonna wrap that with bacon and secure the bacon in this scenario
is not supposed to cover the entire green bean bundle it is simply there to act as
a meat string of sorts so you get that salty bacon that holds your bundles
together bacon bungee cord yeah like a bacon bungee cord so the bacon will cook nice and
even it's not too long it's not overlapping too much and then the ends of our bundles on the
grill get this nice caramelized crispiness with the brown sugar and they are absolutely insane
one thing that i really try to take into consideration when i'm planning sides
especially for a big meal like i don't know maybe thanksgiving or something coming up i really like
to think about what can i make in advance so that it's ready to go and i don't have to worry about
it when i'm worrying about my big main course and how long it takes to cook so these green bean
bundles are great because you can actually make them a day or two in advance of your main course
and then kind of let that brown sugar soy flavor marinate into these green beans just put them on
a sheet sheet tray cover them lightly and stick them in the fridge and then these go right onto
your grill when whatever your main course is comes off so you can pull off say for example a smoked
turkey increase the heat on your pellet cooker pop these on and while your turkey is resting
for that last 15 20 30 minutes these green bean bundles can be on getting nice and hot and crispy
and ready to go all right green bean bundles are all done these are gonna go directly on the grill
grates of my pellet grill that's preheated to 425 degrees these take about 10 to 15 minutes to
cook just about five minutes in gonna give these guys a quick flip
five more minutes another quick turn and then we should be good to go
we're about 15 minutes in these bacon wrap green bean bundles are ready to come off the grill
and they're giving us everything we're looking for this bacon
is nice and mostly rendered we've got these caramelized crispy edges on our green
beans now you can serve these guys with the toothpicks in just make sure that
everybody getting one knows there's a toothpick if you pull them out you
just have to be super careful so the green bean bundles don't unravel i usually serve
them with the toothpicks in just a small warning so nobody accidentally eats one
um i'm gonna try one i can already tell you the smell of that like soy garlic brown
sugar
these are so fun to eat and they look beautiful on a holiday
plate
the texture on those green beans is absolutely perfect because we parboiled them first
they're not crunchy or woody they're just beautifully tender crisp
bacon and salty you get the sweetness from the brown sugar
when i tell you that sides make a meal these kind of sides make a meal they show people that you
care that you put a little bit of extra attention and effort even into the sides and i think that
means something so if you're gonna do a meal do it right give these bacon green bean bundles a
try if you do snap a photo post them online use the hashtag #HeyGrillHey that way i can see it
and cheer you on on your journey to becoming a backyard barbecue hero see you guys next time