Slow Cooker Green Bean Casserole
My family can not go without the Green Bean Casserole. It’s pretty much the best side dish for Thanksgiving or Christmas (well, besides the mashed potatoes). I decided that I had to create the perfect Slow Cooker Green Bean Casserole myself, since most recipes I found online either had frozen green beans or jarred alfredo sauce (yuck!).
This recipe for Slow Cooker Green Bean Casserole makes a ton, when I made this for thanksgiving, it fed about 15, with lots of leftovers. So, I would think this recipe could serve up to 20 people.
At the end of the slow cooking time, I chose to brown the french fried onions on top of the casserole in the oven, it wasn’t a big deal, for the turkey had already been removed from the oven, and all that was left in the oven was the rolls.
Ingredients
- 3 10 3/4 ounce cans Cream of Mushroom Soup
- 1/2 Cup Milk
- 1/8 teaspoon Black Pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon Onion Powder
- 10 14.5 ounce Cans Del Monte Cut Green Beans (drained)
- 2 6 ounce canisters French's French Fried Onions (note- one is mixed in, one is the topping)
- Non-Stick Cooking Oil Spray
Instructions
- In a very large bowl, add the cream of mushrooms soup, milk, black pepper, and onion powder, whisk until smooth.
- Add the drained green beans, and 1 of the canisters of french fried onions into the large bowl with the soup mixture you just made, and with a spatula, fold everything together, being careful not to break the green beans up.
- Spray the slow cooker with the non-stick cooking spray, and add the green bean mixture to the slow cooker.
- Cook on HIGH for 2.5 hours.
- After cooking time is done, add the other canister of french fried onions onto the green beans. Take the slow cooker insert out of the heating element, and put into the oven (without the lid on!). My oven was set at 350 degrees. Cook for about 10 minutes, or until the onions are browned.
- Set the insert back into the slow cooker heating elelment, replace the lid, and set the slow cooker to WARM until ready to serve. Enjoy!
Notes
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Instead of putting the crockpot insert into the oven to brown the french fried onions I would put them in a separate pan in the oven, and after browning… then sprinkle them onto the casserole in the crockpot. Less chance of causing the insert to crack by placing it into the oven.
Sally, most crock pot inserts are oven safe 🙂 But if you are worried about it still I would transfer it to another dish. 🙂
I’m allergic to mushrooms, can I substitute the cream of mushrooms for cream of celery.
Yes, I think that would work great.
I don’t like cream of mushroom soup, so I found a recipe that substitutes sour cream. Work that work with the crockpot? Or would i need to add more milk?
What can I do if I only have a 4 quart crock pot?
I would cut the recipe in half? The measurements don’t need to be exact, it always turns out no matter what measurements I use.
I need to travel about 1hr and 45 min to our Thanksgiving Day destination. Do you think this would still cook well if I got everything in the crock pot-traveled with it and then turned it on?
Yes! I plan to do the same. I’m going to make mine the night before and put in the fridge until we travel. Nothing is that perishable.
I would not suggest putting your insert in the oven – I did, as suggested in your recipe, and my insert cracked all the way through.
So we are camping this year for Thanksgiving and its why I searched for a crock pot recipe, has anyone done this without final step of putting it in oven with the onions? I myself think the onions are great with out being cooked. what are your thoughts?
A new thing I just started doing is browning them in a skillet right before serving.
Great idea, Sarah Olson! I think I’ll do that for my hub’s office Christmas Dinner. He signed me up for green beans, and I refuse to make plain old beans.