Maple Bacon Baked Beans
Upgrade from a canned side-dish with this simple home-made pot of beans with Bacon and Maple flavors
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Servings :8 as a side
Equipment
- Dutch Oven
Ingredients
- 1 lb Great Northern Beans dried
- 1 Yellow Onion diced
- 2 Jalapeno diced
- 1 lb Bacon diced
- .25 cup Tomato Paste
- .25 cup Maple Syrup
- .25 cup Brown Sugar
- .25 cup Maple Bacon Moonshine Optional
- 3 cups Vegetable Stock
- 1.5 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Black Pepper
- .5 tsp Cayenne Pepper
Instructions
- Soak dried beans overnight (about 8 hours) to hydrate in 4-6 cups water
- Drain beans, retaining about 1 cup of water to add to vegetable stock (4 cups total liquid)
- Chop bacon, onion, and jalapeno.
- Set grill or oven to 250 degrees. Heat cast iron Dutch Oven either on grill or on stovetop. Add bacon, onion, and jalapeno to hot Dutch Oven for five to six minutes to start rendering bacon fat and start cooking down onion.
- Add tomato paste, maple syrup, brown sugar and optional Maple Bacon Moonshine to Dutch oven. Then add drained beans, vegetable stock (with bean water), and stir.
- Stir in pepper, salt, and cayenne. Cover and put in oven or grill at 250. Cook for six to eight hours, covered. Most liquid will cook off over that time.
Notes
Size of bacon, onion, and jalapeno dice is purely how you like beans. Big chunks are fine and will cook over this time.
Cooking with cover on will still cook off most liquid after a couple of hours. Depending on time before serving, you may add more to push out cooking time.
Frequent stirring will break down beans more. If you're looking to try to keep beans whole, and less of a paste, hold off on the spoon.
You may want to add a bit more salt, pepper, or cayenne to your taste.
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