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Best Baked Beans

Enhanced Baked Beans Recipe
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Resting Time 5 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Servings 6

Equipment

  • 1 Frying pan/skillet
  • 1 paper plate
  • 1 paper towel
  • 1 One quart mixing bowl
  • 1 2 1/2 to 3 quart oven safe pan with lid
  • 1 Freezer

Ingredients
  

The Basic Ingredient

  • 2 Cans Bush’s Baked Beans 16.5 oz cans

The Sauce

  • 4 Oz Ketchup
  • 4 Oz BBQ Sauce not too sweet
  • 2 Oz Yellow Mustard
  • 1 Oz Worcestershire Sauce
  • 1 Tbsp Molasses
  • 2 Tsp Liquid Smoke

The Meats

  • 1 Lb Ground Beef 85% lean
  • 1 Lb Thick slice Hardwood Smoked Bacon

Instructions
 

Prepare the bacon

  • Fry the bacon until crispy
  • Place a paper towel on a paper plate
  • Place the strips of cooked bacon on the paper towel
  • Place the paper plate in your freezer

Prepare the ground beef

  • Brown the ground beef
  • Discard the grease
  • Place the browned beef in a 2 1/2 or 3 qt pan

Prepare the sauce

  • In a 1 quart or larger bowl combine the ketchup, BBQ sauce, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, and molasses. Stir until it is one consistent color

Make the bacon into pieces

  • Remove the bacon from the freezer and break it (or chop it) into postage size pieces

Combine the ingredients

  • Add the bacon pieces and the sauce mixture to the pan containing the ground beef

In the Oven

  • Cover the pan containing the beans, meats, and sauce and heat in the oven at 350° for 30 minutes

Finish and Serve

  • Remove the beans from oven, stir in the liquid smoke
  • Let the beans rest for 5 minutes then serve.
Keyword Baked Beans
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