Green beans can be filling when you make them with a creamy sauce. These keto cream cheese green beans are topped with bacon and pork rinds.
Green Bean Casserole With Cream Cheese
One of the most classic green bean recipes every holiday season is a green bean casserole. It’s usually made with cream of mushroom soup, fried onions, and milk. It’s full of salt and carbs – and not many nutrients.
I took this classic recipe and made it healthier. It’s not just better for you or lower in carbs, but it is bursting with more flavor than ever before too! With fresh mushrooms, heavy whipping cream, cream cheese, and nutty parmesan cheese, the flavors are bolder!
I even recreated the crispy topping by using pork rind crumbs. They are a low-carb replacement for fried onions and have no carbs!
Cream Cheese Green Beans
It might surprise you that this casserole makes enough to feed 8 people, and there are just 5 grams net carbs in each serving!
There is so much going on in each bite, too! The crispy bacon, earthy mushrooms, and fork-tender green beans are all smothered in a rich and filling cream cheese sauce. Even kiddos that don’t usually like to eat veggies will love this casserole.
Green Beans With Bacon
When you buy bacon, don’t just grab the cheapest pack on sale. Make sure that the kind you’re buying doesn’t have added sugar in it. If it says “maple-cured” it’s best to skip it.
You can use any type of green beans that you want. Fresh green beans will have the best flavor and texture. They are perfectly crispy! Canned green beans are often too soft, but kids love them.
If you use frozen green beans, I suggest letting them thaw and dabbing them with a paper towel before you bake them.
Green Bean Casserole With Bacon
There are a lot of different ways to make green bean casseroles for the holidays and keep the carbs low. If you have leftover turkey, make some almond-topped green bean and turkey casserole.
Don’t forget about other sides to serve with it. Some fluffy cauliflower mash and buttery keto dinner rolls are the perfect things to serve at your holiday meal.
Keto Green Bean Casserole
If you want to make this side dish ahead of time, I suggest making it just one or two days early, not more. Save the pork rinds topping for just before you serve the casserole to your guests.
The cream cheese sauce will solidify in the refrigerator. Don’t worry. It will melt when you heat it back up.
Keto Cream Cheese Green Beans Recipe
Here are the ingredients to make this keto cream cheese green beans recipe. The exact measurements and instructions are in the printable recipe card, just a little below.
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 8
Net Carbs: 5 net carbs per serving
Ingredients:
Sliced mushrooms
Butter
Green beans
Bacon
Heavy whipping cream
Cream cheese
Minced garlic
Parmesan cheese grated
Pork rind crumbs
Salt and pepper
Instructions:
Steam the green beans until a crisp tender, and place into a well greased 9×13 baking dish.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Add the butter to a saucepan over medium heat.
Stir in the mushrooms, and saute until becoming tender.
Mix in the garlic, and cream cheese. Stir until the cream cheese has melted.
Pour in the heavy whipping cream, and simmer until the sauce thickens.
Add salt and pepper to taste, as well as the bacon.
Pour the sauce over the green beans, and stir to combine.
In a bowl, mix together the pork rind crumbs and the parmesan cheese.
Sprinkle the mixture over the green beans.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Let rest 5 minutes before serving.
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Keto Cream Cheese Green Beans
Equipment
- 9x13 baking dish
Ingredients
- 8 ounce Sliced Mushrooms
- 2 tbsp Butter
- 1 pound Green Beans trimmed and snapped into pieces
- 1/3 cup Chopped Bacon
- 1 cup Heavy Whipping Cream
- 4 ounces Cream Cheese softened
- 2 tsp Minced Garlic
- 1/4 cup Parmesan Cheese grated
- 1/3 cup Pork Rind Crumbs
Instructions
- Steam the green beans until a crisp tender, and place into a well greased 9x13 baking dish.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Add the butter to a saucepan over medium heat.
- Stir in the mushrooms, and saute until becoming tender.
- Mix in the garlic, and cream cheese. Stir until the cream cheese has melted.
- Pour in the heavy whipping cream, and simmer until the sauce thickens.
- Add salt and pepper to taste, as well as the bacon.
- Pour the sauce over the green beans, and stir to combine.
- In a bowl, mix together the pork rind crumbs and the parmesan cheese.
- Sprinkle the mixture over the green beans.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
- Let rest 5 minutes before serving.
Notes
Net Carbs: 5 Net Carbs Per Serving
The nutritional information for this recipe is calculated as a courtesy and is approximate only. I cannot guarantee the accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipes on this site.
Keto Green Beans
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