Crockpot Green Bean Casserole
Here’s how you make green bean casserole in the slow cooker!
For a lot of families, green bean casserole is the traditional veggie dish that you have to have on your Thanksgiving table. This is a deceptively simple recipe – just green beans in a cream-soup sauce, topped with French-fried onions – but the whole is definitely greater than the sum of the parts. For some reason no one can explain, the blend of creamy soup and crunchy onions elevates plain old canned green beans to the level of art.
The only problem with making this as part of your Thanksgiving meal is that there are so many other parts of the meal you have to worry about at the same time. This casserole isn’t hard to make at all, but it takes about half an hour – and it’s hard to find that half an hour when you’re busy trying to juggle turkey, stuffing, gravy, potatoes, and cranberries. In the rush to get everything onto the table at the same time, it’s easy for the veggies to slip your mind.
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So, once again, the Crockpot is here to save the day. Whenever you have a spare minute, you can just mix your beans and sauce up right in the pot, sprinkle the onions on top, and put it on high. In a couple of hours, your casserole will be piping hot and topped with a gorgeous, crunchy crust. And if it turns out the rest of the meal isn’t ready at that point, the dish can sit happily on the warm setting until you need it.
In fact, the Crockpot makes this holiday recipe so easy and good, you’ll want to enjoy it all year round.
Crockpot Green Bean Casserole
(printable recipe at bottom of post)
INGREDIENTS:
3 (14.5 oz) cans of green beans, drained
1 (10.5 oz) can of condensed cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup vegetable stock
1/2 cup of heavy cream or whole milk
1 tsp minced garlic
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup flour
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 (6oz) can fried onions, divided
salt and pepper to taste ( I used 1/4 tsp pepper 1/4 tsp salt)
DIRECTIONS:
- Combine all ingredients into the crockpot except for green beans and onions. Mix well.
- Add in green beans, and half of fried onions. Stir.
- Top with remaining onions and cook on HIGH for 2-2.5 hours. NOTE: If you would like crispier onions, wait to add topping until the end of cooking. You can also quickly brown our onions in the oven before adding those on top for an extra crunch!
TOOLS USED FOR THIS CROCKPOT GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE RECIPE
Slow Cooker: Here is one of my favorite crockpots!
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Crockpot Green Bean Casserole
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Ingredients
- 3 14.5 oz cans of green beans, drained
- 1 10.5 oz can of condensed cream of mushroom soup
- 1/2 cup vegetable stock
- 1/2 cup of heavy cream or whole milk
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 6oz can fried onions, divided
- salt and pepper to taste I used 1/4 tsp pepper 1/4 tsp salt
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients into the crockpot except for green beans and onions. Mix well.
- Add in green beans, and half of fried onions. Stir.
- Top with remaining onions and cook on HIGH for 2-2.5 hours.
- NOTE: If you would like crispier onions, wait to add topping until the end of cooking. You can also quickly brown our onions in the oven before adding those on top for an extra crunch!
Nutrition
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I always bring the green beans. I would love to try them this way. I make enough to serve about 20, usually triple the normal recipe. Can i do the same here?
Yes, you just need to make sure your crockpot is large enough, or you use a couple crockpots 🙂
Does the topping get soggy? Seems like it would in the crackpot
If you are worried about the onions getting soggy (they will not be as crispy as the oven version), you can add the topping on at the very end of the cooking before serving.
Can u use frozen green beans
Yes you can. You might want to add a little bit more cooking time.
Can you use the crock pot bag liners with this recipe?
I have not used a liner for this recipe but I don’t see why not.
I haven’t made GBC in years, but would like it this Easter. My mother always baked it in the oven. I love the idea of cooking it in the crockpot. Mix it and forget it. I want to use frozen French Style beans though. Do you see any problems with this? Maybe decrease cooking time? Thank you.
Would it be possible to make with fresh green beans? Do I need to do anything to them first before putting them in crockpot?
Someone mentioned in on of the comments that they blanched them first.
I found this recipe and I, too, had fresh green beans. Another recipe I saw using their creamed sauce, not canned soup, called for fresh or frozen green beans and cook time for the crock pot called for 4 to 6 hours. Hope this helps.
Forgot to add that no blanching was required if increased cooking on crock pot was done.