The Finest Baked Beans EVER

September 7, 2022

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The Finest Baked Beans Ever are the proper mixture of candy and savory. These quaint beans will brighten up any BBQ or cookout!

pan of best baked beans with a scoop taken out of the corner

Judy’s Baked Beans bought a glow up!

In case you’re a very long time reader of IGE then you understand there’s room for only one baked bean recipe on this web site: Judy’s Baked Beans, aka the very best baked beans EVER. I’ve been consuming these epic baked beans since I used to be a child, and shared the dish right here on the mothership 10 years in the past this summer time.

It’s HIGH time this signature, virtually heirloom recipe bought one other probability to shine within the highlight!

Take one chunk and also you’ll perceive why these baked beans deserve the title of “finest ever”. They’re the proper steadiness of savory and candy, plus they’re tremendous easy as a result of canned baked beans type the bottom, vs having to make beans from scratch, plus you don’t must cook dinner something on the range first. I suppose you can name them kicked up canned baked beans (or simply among the best stuff you’ve ever eaten!) They’re old style in the very best means.

baked beans with bacon in a bowl with a spoon

How Do You Make Baked Beans Style Higher?

Personally I like plain canned baked beans, particularly Bush’s, which is what I like to recommend you employ on this straightforward baked beans recipe. However, if you happen to actually wish to rework canned beans right into a luscious, thick but syrupy, irresistible aspect dish, add diced kielbasa, smoky steak sauce, brown sugar, and ketchup-slathered bacon on high. Awwww yeah. After being baked low and gradual for a number of hours, the highest turns into lacquered and caramelized, whereas the beans beneath turn out to be permeated with taste.

This can be a dish we make again and again within the summertime for each vacation, potluck, birthday, and BBQ. It’s easy to make, capable of made forward of time, and a complete crowd pleaser!

Components Wanted

Baked beans: canned baked beans type the bottom of those kicked up canned baked beans. I like Bush’s Vegetarian Baked Beans as a result of they’re somewhat decrease in sugar than different varieties.
Kielbasa: Diced kielbasa added to the combination is a nod to “franks and beans”. They’re my favourite a part of the recipe. Johnsonville model is gluten free.
Crushed pineapple: purchase the sort packed in its personal juices, vs heavy syrup, then use the lid to push down and drain away the juices earlier than including them to the beans. I’ve even used a can of pineapple tidbits that I’ve drained then minced finely earlier than.
Onion: a diced onion provides savory spice to the baked bean combination.
Brown sugar: brown sugar provides sweetness and depth of taste because of the molasses inside.
Steak sauce and yellow mustard: steak sauce and mustard add savory taste and tang to steadiness out the sweetness of the pineapple and brown sugar.
Bacon: bacon slices cowl the highest to permeate the baked beans with luscious, bacon taste whereas it bakes. The beans surprisingly don’t style extraordinarily bacon-y – it simply provides to the general taste of the dish.
Ketchup: I slather the highest of the bacon with ketchup which caramelizes within the oven whereas the beans bake low and gradual. It not solely provides to the gorgeousness of the dish, however the taste too.

They’re Freezer Pleasant Too!

Though we normally serve these baked beans for household get togethers, generally I simply wish to make them for our instant household of 5, so I’ll bake half of the recipe, and freeze the opposite half to make one other time.

Merely assemble the beans in response to the recipe, stopping in need of baking, then cowl with saran wrap, after which foil, after which freeze. Thaw for twenty-four hours within the fridge then bake like regular. You could not want the complete really useful bake time if you happen to’re baking a half batch vs full batch, FYI.

Whether or not that is your first or a hundredth time make the very best baked beans ever, I do know you’ll love each chunk of this excellent aspect dish!!

pan of best baked beans with caramelized bacon on top

Methods to Make this Recipe

Begin with canned baked beans – once more, I extremely advocate Bush’s Vegetarian Baked Beans as they’re somewhat decrease in sugar than different varieties. Open the cans then drain off virtually the entire liquid that sits on high of every can. This may guarantee your baked beans don’t prove soupy.

cans of bush's vegetarian baked beans

Add the beans to a big mixing bowl with diced kielbasa, crushed pineapple, minced onion, brown sugar, steak sauce, and mustard the stir properly to mix.

baked beans ingredients in a mixing bowl

Scoop the combination right into a nonstick sprayed 9×13″ baking dish, or two smaller baking dishes, then line the highest with bacon. You’ll need common or middle reduce, not thick reduce, and I normally use about 3/4 of a full pack of bacon. Lastly, slather ketchup excessive of the bacon with the again of a spoon.

bacon slices placed on top of a baking pan of baked beans

Bake for two – 2-1/2 hours at 250 levels till the bacon is deeply caramelized and the beans are effervescent. Oh my gosh, simply taking a look at this photograph makes me so blissful. These baked beans screams summer time to me, and I hope you, like my household, get pleasure from them as typically as potential till the solar units on this wonderful season. Take pleasure in!

Bowl of baked beans with bacon with a spoon

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