Best Ever Bean Bake
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4.9
Best Ever Bean Bake
Description
This bean bake starts by cooking bacon until crisp, then using the bacon fat to sauté onions and ground beef until browned and well combined. The mixture is combined with three types of canned beans—kidney, pork and beans, and butter beans—in a slow cooker or casserole dish. The savory meat and beans are balanced by sweet and tangy elements, including brown sugar, ketchup, BBQ sauce, molasses, and mustard, stirred in to create a rich sauce coating the ingredients.
The assembled bake is cooked in an oven at 350°F for 40 minutes to an hour, or on high in a slow cooker for 4 hours, until it is hot, bubbly, and lightly browned around the edges. The resulting dish offers a comforting mix of smoky, sweet, and umami flavors with varied textures from the meats and beans, suitable as a main or side dish.
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 onion chopped
- 1 lb Bacon diced into small pieces
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup ketchup
- ¼ cup BBQ sauce
- 2 tablespoons molasses
- 2 tablespoons mustard
- 15 ounce Kidney Beans drained, can
- 15 ounce pork and beans canned
- 15 ounce butter beans drained, can
Instructions
- In a large pan, cook bacon until crunchy and brown.
- Remove bacon and set aside, do not drain fat from pan.
- Cook onion and ground beef, crumbling beef as it browns, until no longer pink.
- In a slow cooker or casserole dish, add cans of beans.
- Add bacon and cooked ground beef and stir.
- Stir in molasses, bbq sauce, mustard, sugar, and ketchup.
- Bake at 350 for 40 minutes - 1 hour, until bubbling hot and lightly browned on edges. If cooking in slow cooker, cook on high for 4 hours.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 10servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 450 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1g | |
| Calories | 450kcal | 23% |
| Carbohydrates | 33g | 11% |
| Protein | 18g | 36% |
| Fat | 27g | 42% |
| Saturated Fat | 10g | 50% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 3g | 18% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 12g | 60% |
| Trans Fat | 1g | 50% |
| Cholesterol | 62mg | 21% |
| Sodium | 748mg | 31% |
| Potassium | 543mg | 12% |
| Fiber | 5g | 20% |
| Sugar | 19g | 38% |
| Vitamin A | 66IU | 1% |
| Vitamin C | 1mg | 1% |
| Calcium | 57mg | 6% |
| Iron | 3mg | 17% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Overall Rating
4.9
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