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:Â 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!
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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’m confused about prepared vs. condensed mushroom soup. If I use a condensed can, what oz. of can should I buy? Should the whole soup added equal 18oz, or should it be 18oz once prepared?
As stated in the directions, I used and 18oz already prepared can of soup. If you are using standard 10oz can of condensed soup, prepare the soup according to the can, and then add in. Once it is prepared, it would be about 18 oz.
Recipe update: There has been some confusion about condensed soup vs prepared soup, so I have rewritten the recipe for just condensed soup, since this is what the majority of folks are using.
How would you tweak this recipe to cook it in the oven?
Thanks!
I have 10 1/2 oz cans of soup. Should I double them or measure 18 oz precisely?
Is this a condensed can of soup Debbie? If so, prepare as directed on the can, and if should be 18oz then.
Recipe update: There has been some confusion about condensed soup vs prepared soup, so I have rewritten the recipe for just condensed soup, since this is what the majority of folks are using.
HOW DO I SAVE THIS RECIPE
Linda, you can use the print feature and print it out, or pin-it using Pinterest. 🙂
This was so good! Made it for thanksgiving and it was a hit. So now I’m making it again for Christmas dinner as it was highly requested!! Thanks so much