BEST BAKED BEANS RECIPE

5 from 21 votes

This homemade baked beans recipe is sweet, smoky, and full of savory flavor. Made with canned beans, bacon, and simple pantry staples for an easy, crowd-pleasing side dish.

Prep Time10

Cook Time1 15

Total Time1 25

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Servings:

Calories: 606kcal

Author: Jennifer Fishkind

Ingredients

1 pound bacon (about 36 regular strips)
1 medium white onion diced
4 cans pork & beans (398 ml each)
¼ cup ketchup
½ cup BBQ sauce
½ cup brown sugar
2 tbsp yellow mustard
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350F.
In a large (12 inch) frying pan, cook bacon.
1 pound bacon
Remove cooked bacon from the frying pan and chop into small pieces. Set bacon aside for now. Leave about 1 tablespoon of bacon grease in the frying pan and discard the rest of the grease.
Cook onion in the frying pan over medium-high heat until tender (about 5 minutes).
1 medium white onion
Add in ketchup, BBQ sauce, brown sugar, yellow mustard, Worcestershire sauce and bacon to the frying pan and simmer over low heat for 5 minutes.
1 pound bacon, ¼ cup ketchup, ½ cup BBQ sauce, ½ cup brown sugar, 2 tbsp yellow mustard, 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
Spray a 9x13 baking dish with non-stick cooking spray. Place the 4 cans of beans in the dish and remove ½ cup of the liquid that came out of the cans. Add in all the contents of the frying pan. Stir well to mix.
4 cans pork & beans
Place the lid (or aluminum foil) over the baking dish and bake for 45 minutes. Remove cover after 45 minutes and cook for an additional 15 minutes. Let sit for 20 minutes before serving to give the sauce a chance to thicken a bit.

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Notes

If you are making baked beans in the summer and want to keep the house from overheating when turning on the oven you can also make your baked beans on the grill! Just place them on the grill next to whatever meat is cooking, and let them cook the whole time the meat is on.

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