Doctored Up Baked Beans
This is how you turn canned beans into something that tastes like you’ve been slow-cooking all day. The bacon fat does most of the work here – plus crispy meat and a hit of brown sugar on top.
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Ingredients
Ingredients (~6 servings)
- 4 strips bacon diced
- 6 oz smoked sausage like kielbasa, sliced into rounds
- 1/2 yellow onion diced
- 2 cans baked beans (I like Bush’s classic) 28 oz
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 1/4 cup vinegar-based hot sauce like Frank’s
- 2 Tbsp Dijon mustard
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar divided
- 1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F.
- Cook diced bacon in a large cast iron skillet over low heat, stirring occasionally, until crispy, about 8-10 minutes.
- Remove bacon with a slotted spoon, leaving rendered fat in skillet.
- Increase heat to medium, add sausage to skillet, and cook until browned on both sides, about 3-4 minutes.
- Add diced onion and sauté for 2-3 minutes until softened.
- Add canned beans, ketchup, hot sauce, 1/3 cup brown sugar, Dijon mustard, Worcestershire sauce, and cooked bacon back to skillet.
- Bring to a simmer and cook for 5 minutes.
- Remove from heat and sprinkle remaining brown sugar evenly over the top.
- Transfer skillet to oven and bake for 40 minutes until top is caramelized and browned.
- Remove from oven and serve warm.
Notes
Use a cast iron skillet for best results and even caramelization.
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