Old Fashioned Green Beans with Andouille Sausage
Old Fashioned Green Beans with Andouille Sausage are full of flavor and can be served as a side dish or your main dish. Use fresh or frozen green beans to make this flavorful dish.
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 1/2 pound andouille smoked sausage sliced
- 1 small onion chopped
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 Tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 1/2 pounds green beans* cleaned and snapped (strung if needed)
- Salt and black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Steam green beans in a steamer basket in a saucepan for 20-25 minutes or until fork tender; set aside.
- In a medium skillet, crisp up andouille sausage until oil is rendered out.
- Remove sausage, leaving fat in the pan.
- Add onions to the fat and cook until translucent, around 5 minutes.
- Remove onions; set aside with sausage.
- Stir in sugar and vinegar into hot skillet cooking over medium heat just until sugar is dissolved.
- Add the green beans, sausage and onions back to the pan,.
- Season well with salt and pepper.
- Serve with a drizzle of olive oil on top.
Notes
*You can use frozen green beans. Just heat and add to the sausage and onions.