Description

🥘 Slow Cooker Baked Beans: Easy Homemade Recipe offers a comforting, flavorful side dish with minimal hands-on time.
⏲️ Using a slow cooker allows the flavors to develop deeply while freeing you up for other tasks, perfect for busy days and gatherings.

Ingredients

– 8 ounces uncooked bacon, diced

– 1 yellow onion, diced

– 3 cloves garlic, minced

– 1 (15 ounce) can pinto beans, rinsed and drained

– 1 (15 ounce) can kidney beans, rinsed and drained

– 1 (15 ounce) can northern white beans, rinsed and drained

– ½ cup ketchup

– ¼ cup molasses

– ¼ cup spicy BBQ sauce (or favorite BBQ sauce; use sweet one if preferred)

– ½ cup packed dark brown sugar (can substitute light brown sugar or coconut sugar)

– 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

– ½ tablespoon yellow mustard (or Dijon mustard)

Instructions

1-Cook diced bacon in a skillet over medium heat until crispy and golden brown.

2-Drain most of the bacon grease, leaving a little in the pan. Add diced onion and cook for 5 to 8 minutes until slightly golden.

3-Add minced garlic during the last minute of cooking and cook for an additional minute. Remove from heat.

4-In a slow cooker, combine the rinsed and drained pinto, kidney, and northern white beans with the cooked bacon, onion, and garlic mixture.

5-Add ketchup, molasses, BBQ sauce, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, and mustard. Stir until well combined.

6-Cook on high for 3 to 4 hours or on low for 6 to 7 hours.

Notes

🥓 For vegetarian version, omit the bacon.
🌱 Substitute or add different beans like black beans or cannellini.
💧 For saucier beans, reduce beans or add water/broth during cooking.

Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 3 to 7 hours
Category: Side Dish
Method: Slow Cooking
Cuisine: American

Nutrition

Serving Size: 1 serving
Calories: 238
Sugar: 19.7g
Fat: 2.7g
Saturated Fat: 0.9g
Carbohydrates: 48.2g
Fiber: 24.4g
Protein: 10.6g

Keywords: Slow Cooker,Baked Beans,Easy,Homemade