Southern Butter Beans with Bacon

Here’s one of my favorite vegetables… the butter bean.  Apparently, classifying what is and isn’t a butter bean is about as controversial in the South as whether or not you put sugar in your cornbread – and there are some pretty strong opinions out there about that!  For me, butter beans are the fresh variety of small white and green lima beans.  For many folks, the term “butter bean” refers to the large dried limas that are rehydrated and cooked.   I call those dried limas.  And anything of the green variety in between, I’ve always just called limas.  The truth is, they’re all limas of some sort.  And the best part is this recipe works for just about all of those fresh or frozen limas – regardless of what you call them.

Ingredients

• 6 slices bacon coarsely chopped
• 1 small onion chopped
• 1 (28-ounce) bag frozen butter beans (about 5 cups)
• 4 cups (32-ounces) College Inn® Chicken Broth
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper

Instructions

• In a large Dutch oven over medium heat, cook the bacon until crispy. Drain away all but about 2 tablespoons of the bacon grease, then return the pan to the heat. Add the chopped onion, and cook in the bacon grease until the onion is translucent, about 7 to 8 minutes. Add the beans, broth, salt, and pepper. Bring the broth to a boil, and then reduce the heat to a simmer and cook about 45 to 60 minutes or until tender.

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