Baked beans, Redneck style – Redneck Cooking

Looking for the perfect side dish to go along with the BBQ burgers you are grilling? Try this simple Baked Bean recipe.

Now that spring is here, it’s time to clean up the grill and start cooking outdoors. One of my favorite side dishes is baked beans. There are many varieties of canned baked beans on the market such as B&M, Van Camp, or Bush’s. All of these are good beans and will go well with anything you might grill up, but if you want to step it up a notch and make it look like you really went all out for the BBQ, try my easy recipe to make your own baked beans. They’ll satisfy even the pickiest eater and convince everyone you slaved all day in the kitchen making these.

If you do want to spend more time cooking these baked beans you can start with your favorite type of dried beans. Soak them overnight to soften them up. Cook them to taste, and then use them for the baked beans. I’m usually too busy this time of year to spend that much time on one dish. It is much easier and faster to start with canned Pork and Beans. I will normally by the cheap store brand because by the time I get done doctoring the beans up you will not be able to tell that they are the cheap ones anyways.

Redneck Baked Beans

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Ingredients:

2 15 oz. cans Pork and Beans
1/2 pound bacon
1 med-large onion diced
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup molasses
1-2 teaspoons dry mustard

Fry the bacon and set aside. I like to leave my bacon just a bit less done than I would normally cook it. When I am cooking bacon for breakfast I like it to be good and crispy, but when I am adding it to the beans I leave it a bit softer.

After I fry the bacon I will add the diced onion to the pan and cook just until they turn clear. Dice the onions as large or small as you like. I really like the flavor of onion cooked in bacon grease, so I dice mine into fairly large chunks. Crumble up the bacon and mix it in with the onion.

Open the two cans of beans and pour into a casserole dish. Add in the bacon and onion mixture, the brown sugar, molasses, and dry mustard. Mix well.

Place the casserole dish in a 350 degree oven and bake for 1 to 3 hours. The longer you bake the beans the thicker they will become so check them after 1 hour and then every half hour after that until they are at your desired thickness.

After removing the beans from the oven, let them cool for 10 to 15 minutes before serving. Garnish with some shredded cheese, bacon strips, or onion greens if you like.

You can also make these beans in the slow cooker. Put all the ingredients in the slow cooker in the morning and let them cook all day. By dinnertime the beans will be perfect.