Southern Green Beans (slow cooker)

[vafatboy]

1 lb green beans snapped, ends trimmed
1 Smoked ham hock
1 small onion minced
Chicken broth to just cover beans in pot
1 tsp ground red pepper
1 tsp white pepper (or black pepper)
Seasoning salt to taste AFTER shredding ham from hock

Cook broth, beans and hock on high until hock falls off the bone about 3-4 hours. Remove hock, separate meat from bone and fat. Shred ham and return to pot. ( I throw the bone back in too) Add seasonings. Check the need for seasoning salt at this time and add to taste. Some ham hocks have high salt content depending on how it was cured.


Continue to cook on low until desired tenderness is reached for the beans. Bailey tradition is just short of falling apart.

The beans I made today took 10 hours total in the slow cooker.

Yum, yum