One of my families favorite side dishes for Thanksgiving, Christmas dinner, Easter, and throughout the year is our green bean casserole. This easy, homemade green bean casserole uses canned green beans for simplicity along with French’s fried onions for a tasty, memorable vegetable dish that everyone will love.

One of my families favorite side dishes for Thanksgiving, Christmas dinner, Easter, and throughout the year is our green bean casserole. This easy, homemade green bean casserole uses canned green beans for simplicity along with French's fried onions for a tasty, memorable vegetable dish that everyone will love.

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Green Bean Casserole

Not only does this easy green bean casserole taste delicious, but it is so simple to make! I love that our green bean casserole from scratch can be made ahead and kept in the fridge; this makes it so easy to toss in the oven for a large meal like Thanksgiving with no fuss. Our green bean casserole recipe uses canned grean beans for conveninece, but a unique seasoning to give our version of the French’s green bean casserole a unique twist with a subtle, but noticeable flavor improvement. Your family and guests will love this delicious vegetable recipe.

roasted garlic cream of mushroom soup, green beans, milk, salt, pepper, fried onions

Homemade Green Bean Casserole

All you need to whip up this yummy vegetable are a few simple ingredients:

  • 1 can roasted garlic cream of mushroom soup
  • ¾ cup milk
  • 1/8 teas salt
  • Dash pepper
  • 3, 16  ounce cans green beans, drained
  • 1 can Fried Onions, or similar

mix vegetable casserole together

Green Bean Casserole from Scratch

In a casserole dish mix together the soup, moilk, salt, and pepper until combined. Add in the drained grean beans and 1/3 of the fried onions.

mix vegetable casserole together

Stir together gently.

top with fried onions

Green Bean Casserole Recipe

As this point you can move on to cooking the sidedish or put a lid on your dish and store in the refridgerator for up to 3 days. I love the conveninece of make-ahead recipes!

French's green bean casserole

French’s green bean casserole

When you are ready to cook this casserole recipe, let the dish return to room temperature while you preheat your oven to 350 F.

Green Bean Casserole Recipe

HINT: This recipe is very forgiving. If you need to cook it at 375 or even 400 F due to other dishes in the oven, you can. Just make sure it is on the 2nd row.

Green Bean Casserole from Scratch

Easy green bean casserole

Cook at 350 F for 30-40 minutes.

Thanksgiving Green Bean Casserole

Thanksgiving Green Bean Casserole

Pull out and top with reserved onions; cook 5 minutes more. Serve

Our families favorite green bean casserole. This easy, homemade dish is quick and easy to make with tasty fried onions on top!

Our families favorite green bean casserole. This easy, homemade dish is quick and easy to make with tasty fried onions on top!

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Green Bean Casserole from Scratch

Homemade Green Bean Casserole Recipe with Fried Onions

Beth Gorden
One of my families favorite side dishes for Thanksgiving, Christmas dinner, Easter, and throughout the year is our green bean casserole. This easy, homemade green bean casserole uses canned green beans for simplicity along with French's fried onions for a tasty, memorable vegetable dish that everyone will love. 
5 from 7 votes
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Course Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine christmas, comfort food, easter, thanksgiving
Servings 8 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 1 can roasted garlic cream of mushroom soup
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • dash pepper
  • 3 16 ounce cans green beans, drained
  • 1 can Fried Onions

Instructions
 

  • Mix together all ingredients except 2/3 cup fried onions in casserole dish. Cook at 350 F for 30-40 minutes. Pull out and top with reserved onions; cook 5 minutes more. Serve.

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! She has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids ABCs, science, English grammar, history, math, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables - www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!

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6 Comments

  2. 5 stars
    Love the twist, added lots of flavor

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  3. 5 stars
    Love how easy it is to make ahead

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  4. 5 stars
    Similar to the one I usually make. Super good.

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  5. 5 stars
    Making this again for Thanksgiving. thanks

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  6. Betty McCabe says:

    5 stars
    Thank you for the recipes Beth. The green bean casserole was delicious, no left overs and good feed back from the family. Hope you have a great Thanksgiving!
    Thanks again

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