Texas Roadhouse Green Beans

Texas Roadhouse green beans are a hot vegetable side of slow-simmered beans cooked with bacon and onion in a savory broth. They count as one of your two included sides with an entree, or run roughly $2.99 to $3.99 ordered on their own.

What Texas Roadhouse green beans are (spec table)

Green beans at Texas Roadhouse are a Southern-style braised side, not a crisp steamed vegetable. They arrive soft, glossy and salty, served hot in a small bowl or ramekin, with visible bits of bacon and onion in the liquid at the bottom.

If you grew up on green beans that squeak when you bite them, set that expectation aside. These are cooked down until they go limp, which is the point of the style.

What’s in them: bacon, onion and broth

The core of the dish is green beans, bacon, onion and a salty seasoned broth, finished with black pepper and a touch of sugar in most copycat breakdowns. Texas Roadhouse does not publish a full ingredient list per side, so treat any exact recipe you find online as a reverse-engineered guess.

What matters practically is the bacon. These are not vegetarian, and there is no bacon-free version available to order. Servers can’t strain it out, because the pork flavor is cooked into the liquid the beans sit in. If you avoid pork, the buttered corn or fresh vegetables are the substitutions to ask about instead.

Sodium is the other thing worth flagging. A braised-with-bacon side is salty by design, and it will taste saltier next to a seasoned steak than it would on its own. If you’re watching sodium, ask the manager for the printed nutrition and allergen sheet, which every location keeps behind the host stand.

Green beans price and how sides are billed

You usually pay nothing extra for green beans. Nearly every entree at Texas Roadhouse comes with your choice of two sides, and green beans sit in the standard no-upcharge group alongside mashed potatoes, seasoned rice and buttered corn.

Prices are set per location, so a green bean side in a high-cost metro can land a dollar above the same side in a small market. The only reliable way to check yours is to pull your specific restaurant up in the Texas Roadhouse app or on the official site and look at the sides section for that store.

Calories and nutrition

Green beans are one of the lighter sides on the menu, but the bacon and broth mean they are not a diet-plate vegetable either. Current per-item calorie counts are printed on the in-store menu and shown in the official app when you build an order.

We won’t publish a hard calorie number here because side portions and preparation have shifted more than once and a stale figure is worse than none. Compared with the rest of the sides list, green beans land far below steak fries, loaded baked potato and mac and cheese, and roughly in line with buttered corn. If a precise number matters for tracking, take it from the app rather than from any third-party site, including this one.

How to order them well

Ask for them with a slotted spoon, or say “not too much liquid.” The broth is what makes them go soupy on the plate and soak into your rolls or fries. Servers hear this request often enough that it doesn’t slow anything down.

A few other things that work:

• Pair with something dry. Green beans plus a baked potato is a better plate than green beans plus mashed potatoes, where two soft, salty items compete.
• Use them against rich entrees. They cut through Road Kill, ribs and cheese-topped chicken better than another starch does.
• Ask for them out early. If your table is working through the free rolls and cinnamon butter, a hot vegetable arriving first stops the bread from being the whole appetizer course.
• Order extra for the table. At side pricing they’re the cheapest way to get a vegetable in front of kids who won’t touch the salad.

Are they worth it vs the other sides?

As a free included side, green beans are an easy yes for anyone who wants a vegetable that still tastes like a steakhouse. As a paid a la carte side, they’re mid-pack value, because the portion is single-serving and the ingredient cost is low.

Against buttered corn, green beans win on savory flavor and lose on kid appeal. Against the house salad, the salad is the better choice if you want anything crisp or fresh, since green beans offer no crunch at all. Against steak fries, it’s not a contest on satisfaction, but the fries do a lot more damage to the calorie total.

The honest summary: they’re competent, salty, comforting and unremarkable. Nobody drives to Texas Roadhouse for the green beans, and nobody sends them back either.

Green beans for takeout and family meals

Green beans travel better than fried sides but worse than potatoes, because the broth keeps working on them in the container. Expect them to be softer and saltier by the time you get home. If it’s more than a ten-minute drive, ask for the lid vented or take them with minimal liquid.

They also appear as a side option on family meal bundles at many locations, portioned for the group rather than per person. Bundle contents rotate, so check what your store is currently offering before assuming green beans are on the list.

What we can’t confirm

This is an independent guide, not the restaurant. We do not have access to internal recipes, per-store pricing files or current nutrition databases. Specifically: exact a la carte side pricing varies by franchise and market, the calorie figure changes with portion and prep updates, and the full seasoning blend has never been published by the company. Anything a page states as a precise recipe for this side is reconstructed, not official. For a decision that matters, call your location or check the official Texas Roadhouse app for your store.

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