Easy Homemade Barbecue Baked Beans Recipe
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.
Equipment
- Dutch oven
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
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 275°F. Rinse and drain the canned beans.
- Cook the diced bacon in a large Dutch oven over medium heat until the fat renders, about 8 – 10 minutes.
- 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.
- 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.
- Stir well and serve.
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.
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
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