Baked Beans with Ground Beef
Baked Beans with Ground Beef is a down home recipe with tender beans, savory ground beef and that classic sweet, smoky sauce we hunger for at picnics and barbecues. It’s sweet, it’s smoky, it’s a bit tangy and puffing with hearty while tasting like something your grandma would dole out at a back yard potluck or a cold weeknight dinner.
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Servings: 6 people
INGREDIENTS
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 lb homemade baked beans
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 small onion chopped
- ⅓ cup ketchup
- 2 tablespoons yellow mustard
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon salt or more to taste
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon smoked paprika optional
- ¼ cup smoked chicken bits for garnish
INSTRUCTIONS
- Brown the ground beef in a large pan and drain any extra fat.
- Stir in chopped onion and garlic, and cook a couple more minutes until soft.
- Mix in your canned beans, ketchup, mustard, brown sugar, BBQ sauce, Worcestershire, and your seasonings. Mix it all up real good.
- Put it in a baking dish, uncovered, and in the oven at 350 or 30 minutes.
- Let it cool for a few minutes, then scoop and eat!
NOTES
- Drain the beef – When you brown the ground beef, you’re definitely going to want to drain away the extra grease so that you’re not cooking in an oily dish.
- Taste along the way – The sauce is sweet and tangy so you can taste it and decide if you need more brown sugar, more mustard, more BBQ sauce depending on your flavor vibe.
- Use High-Quality Beans - Canned baked beans could be your classic maple, your hickory or your original. Go with one you love because it is a major part of the flavor base.
- Do not skip the bake time – Even though everything is already cooked – that time in the oven REALLY will marry the flavors, and thicken the sauce beautifully.
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