Rendering Bacon for Creole Style Green Beans

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Karl James, owner of Creolesoul Catering located in Round Rock, Texas and on behalf of Expert Village here to continue on with series what we call making the meal. This is part three of the series and we'll be the second side dish that will be creole style green beans. We're taking our bacon, the pieces that we cut and now we're rendering that in a heavy pot here and we want to render a lot of the bacon fat off. Because its flavor from the bacon fat that's going to give the green beans a nice smoky flavor. And we want this bacon to crisp up a little bit so we render, we're doing this on a medium high heat and you know you just move it around, you don't want it to burn it can let is sit for a little bit. And just stay attentive to it, always pay attention to it cause you don't really want it to burn. If you didn't want to use bacon, you can use ham, you can use Canadian bacon but like I said I like to use the hickory smoke just for that smoky flavor. And if while you're doing this your oil starts to pop, it means that the heat is too high, just turn it down a notch and keep going. So anyway, we'll continue to render our bacon and watch our next step."