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Easy Homemade Barbecue Baked Beans Recipe

5 from 2 votes
When it comes to summer picnics, family dinners, or backyard BBQ cookouts, nothing complements a meal quite like a hearty dish of barbecue baked beans. With the simple sauce and smoky bacon, these beans are the perfect side dish. In this post, I will show you how to make terrific BBQ baked beans the easy way using simple ingredients like canned beans and store-bought barbecue sauce.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 15 minutes
Servings: 8 servings
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: American, BBQ
Calories: 338
Ingredients Equipment Method Nutrition Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 lb bacon (chopped)
  • 1 yellow onion (chopped)
  • 3 cans Great Northern beans (16 oz each), drained and rinsed
  • ¼ cup tomato paste
  • ¼ cup dark brown sugar
  • ¼ cup molasses
  • ½ cup barbecue sauce
  • ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper

Equipment

  • Dutch oven

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 275°F. Rinse and drain the canned beans.
  2. Cook the diced bacon in a large Dutch oven over medium heat until the fat renders, about 8 – 10 minutes.
  3. Add the onion and sauté until tender, about 5 minutes. Add the beans, tomato paste, brown sugar, molasses, barbecue sauce, cayenne pepper, salt and pepper. Stir well and simmer for 10 minutes.
  4. Cover the beans and bake until the sauce thickens, about 2 hours. Stir every 30 minutes. After Remove the beans from the oven and let stand with the lid on for 5 minutes to thicken.
  5. Stir well and serve.

Nutrition

Serving: 8ozCalories: 338kcalCarbohydrates: 26gProtein: 8gFat: 23gSaturated Fat: 8gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gMonounsaturated Fat: 10gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 37mgSodium: 1211mgPotassium: 430mgFiber: 1gSugar: 22gVitamin A: 215IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 45mgIron: 1mg

Notes

Bake the beans in an oven rather than on a cooktop.  The beans have a sugar in them that will burn if heated on a traditional range.  The oven provides heat from all directions which helps minimized burning the beans.

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