Bacon Green Bean Casserole

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This Bacon Green Bean Casserole is perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter.

Course Side Dish

Keyword green bean casserole, bacon green bean casserole.

Prep Time 10

Author Amy Tinnin

24 oz. green beans fresh or canned. for canned use 2 - 14.5 oz. cans of french style green beans, or regular styled, drained.
2 10 ounce cans of cream of mushroom condensed soup
8 slices of bacon, cooked
2 cups of fresh mushrooms, sliced
2 garlic cloves minced
1 cup half and half
Salt and Peper to taste
2 1/2 cups French's Fried Onions divided. Save 1/2 cup for topping.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Boil fresh green beans in a saucepan for approximitly 5 minutes on medium - high heat. Or follow instructions on green beans package. If using canned green beans, just drain and set aside.
In a cast iron skillet or use any skillet, fry bacon until crispy. Once it's done, remove bacon and cool on plate with a paper towel. Once it is cooled break bacon into little pieces.
In the same skillet used for bacon, remove the majority of the grease leaving just a little. Add fresh sliced mushtooms and cook for 3 minutes.
Add the minced garlic to the pan with the mushrooms and cook for an additional 2 minutes.
In a large bowl mix together the green beans, cream of mushroom soup, half and half, crumbled bacon, mushrooms, salt, pepper and 2 cups of fried onions.
Lightly grease a 2.5 quart casserole dish.
Pour the green bean mixture into a casserole dish.
Cook at 350 degrees for 25- 30 minutes or until mixture is hot and bubbling.
Add remaining fried onions (1/2 cup) on top of casserole and cook for an additional 5 minutes.

Serving: 8serving