It's been 54 years since Campbell Soup Company introduced the green bean casserole and it is still an extremely popular part of Thanksgiving dinner. The green bean casserole is the most popular recipe ever to come out of the Campbell's Soup corporate kitchen. This casserole has become a household name that is as much a Thanksgiving fixture as football and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for many families.
The basic green bean casserole is made with green beans and cream of mushroom soup topped with crunchy fried onions. For the Campbell Soup Company, the introduction of the green bean casserole has been an amazing profit-maker. The company sells $20 million worth of cream of mushroom soup each year, primarily at Thanksgiving, just to people following their classic recipe, or versions of it.
The recipe, created for an Associated Press feature in 1955, is still a fixture on soup cans labels and, this time of year, Campbell television commercials. Even if you've never had green bean casserole, it's more than likely that you've heard of it.
The classic recipe from Campbell's Soup is just about as simple as making a can of soup:
1 can (10 3/4 ounces) Campbell's® Condensed Cream of Mushroom Soup
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon soy sauce
Dash ground black pepper
4 cups cooked cut green beans
1 1/3 cups French's® French Fried Onions
Stir the soup, milk, soy sauce, black pepper, beans and 2/3 cup onions in a 1 1/2-quart casserole.
Bake at 350°F. for 25 minutes or until the bean mixture is hot and bubbling. Stir the bean mixture.
Sprinkle with the remaining onions. Bake for 5 minutes or until the onions are golden brown.
Sound a bit too boring to you? There have been many varations on this classic dish over the years. Here are a few for the more adventurous green bean casserole lovers:
Paula Deen's Green Bean Casserole: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/green-bean-casserole-recipe/index.html
Tyler Florence's Green Bean Casserole: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/green-bean-casserole-recipe/index.html
Not Your Mama's Green Bean Casserole by Alton Brown: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/not-your-mamas-green-bean-casserole-recipe/index.html
Whether you're cooking for two or twenty, there is sure to be one or more in the crowd who are going to be expecting green bean casserole on the Thanksgiving dinner table. Make the classic Campbell's Soup version or a new "souped" version of the fifty-four year old original Green Bean casserole.
Cheryl Phillips
HULIQ.com
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