How do you use bacon in your baked beans?!
How do you use bacon in your baked beans?
I found a recipe that says to put bacon slices in a skillet and cover with brown sugar and cook just until the bacon grease starts to bubble up through the sugar, then put the slices and sugar in the beans. Does this sound good to you? How do you use bacon in your baked beans? Also, what about onions- should they go in raw or cooked (chopped or minced)? What other seasonings should be added?
Answers:
Sounds good to me. The recipe I use (a cheating one, that calls for canned beans), has you dice the bacon and fry it -- or fry it and dice it -- and then use it to cook the chopped onions in.
You can use whatever seasonings your little heart desires. Brown sugar, sure. Some people like mustard. I use Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, and cheddar cheese. Beans are good!
I don't like onions in mine so...
But as to the bacon, since I prefer bacon crisp I cook it up just a bit before adding it. Cooking it in brown sugar certainly compliments the beans nicely.
I like a little grape jelly in mine.
I prefer to fry the bacon crispy and then breaking it up into little pieces. The onions I saute in the bacon grease till they're done. I also like to saute some chopped green bell pepper.
For beans I use Bushes baked beans. They're good beans and have great seasonings. With the added bacon, onion and green pepper they turn out fabulous!! People ask me to bring my beans to pot-luck dinners all the time.
My pet peeve with beans is when people add hamburger or hot dogs to them. Ick! No meat!!
Yes, I use bacon in my recipe, it is chopped in blocks and browned until it is crispy. Then I add onions, a chopped garlic clove and green pepper(everything is minced). Some people add ground beef. I'm not one of them. I also use brown sugar, molasses, and liquid smoke. Garlic salt, pepper and a little tabasco. I prefer my beans on the sweet side, a small chilli gives it a nice zing.
the answers above are good so I won't repeat everything you have already seen. Another nice touch to the baked beans besides the brown sugar and bacon is honey and or molasses (just a hint of molasses, a dab will do ya).I wouldn't add green pepper though .(as per a response prior to mine)And I would cut the onions to a fine cut. 1/8 of an inch in size and make them as uniform as possible not a sloppy chop.As for the bacon , traditionally is is not cooked to be too crisp for that drains away all the flavor. Follow your recipe. And cook it the way you stated in your Q. Good luck . Bon Appetite
We buy a package of the bacon ends and pieces and put it in raw and let it cook with the beans (We slow cook our beans for two days). The onions go in about halfway through the second day, roughly chopped.
Here's my recipe for baked beans. I dont use bacon, but if you want to just add to recipe.
Baked Beans
4 or 5 cans of campbells pork and beans, then add ketchup, mustard, brown sugar, chopped onion (raw), karo syrup, and lil smokies and bake them in the oven for 35-45 minutes at 350'. Talk about delicious.
I sometimes use beef smoked sausage or kielbasa pieces instead of the lil smokies. =0)