Crockpot Baked Beans
Here is the recipe!
4 cans pork & beans (don't rinse)*
2 cans black beans (rinsed and drained)*
2 cans chili beans (don't rinse)*
*that is, approx. 15 ounce cans or 1 1/2 cups cooked beans per can.
If you make your own beans, any kind is fine, just make sure that they are thoroughly cooked and as tender as you like because the tomato base of the ketchup in this recipe will cause them to firm up a bit.
Then add:
1-2 cups ketchup ( you can substitute half of the ketchup for tomato puree, but it won't turn out exactly the same)
1/4 cup blackstrap molasses
2-3 T yellow mustard
3/4 cup brown sugar ( I use raw sugar)
garlic salt to taste
black pepper to taste
Mix these ingredients with your beans in your crockpot and let cook overnight until lunch or all day until supper. You can add any kind of meat to these beans for a complete meal.
If they seem a little soupy after they have cooked for several hours, take the lid off and turn them on high to cook for another 30 minutes to 1 hour.
4 comments:
thank you!! I think I will sub canellini beans for pork and beans (we don't eat pork)...should be ok.
Also if I were to soak and cook my own beans first, how long should I cook them? Last time when I made the black beans, they were good eats by themselves but when I re-heated them as baked beans, they were very tough, not soft anymore.
Well...if you had a pressure cooker you could follow the directions in step 2, but if you just cook them on the stove, I would have to say anywhere from 1 1/2 hours to 3 hours.
It has been quite a while since I cooked beans on the stove and the results of the skins being tough is characteristic of cooking them in a crockpot or on the stove. )O:
I like to use canned beans because they are pressure canned (& cooked). Otherwise I always pressure cook mine. Just remember if you do it this way to follow the manufacturers directions...normally you shouldn't fill your pressure cooker more than half full with beans because they can cause it to explode.
beans exploding...LOL
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I did mean to say don't fill the pressure cooker more than half full when you are cooking beans...if you fill it half full with beans you might just have beans exploding all over your kitchen! (2 cups beans, 6-8 cups water).
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