Award-Winning Smoked Baked Beans Recipe
These are the best smoked baked beans recipe ever! Serve them with barbecue and grilled hamburgers and hotdogs, throw them on the smoker and get ready to chow down. With this secret ingredient, there won't be any leftovers!
Servings 2 .5 quarts
Calories 346kcal
Ingredients
- 8 slices of bacon cut into ½ inch squares
- ½ cup white onion small diced
- ½ red bell pepper small diced
- 1 serrano or jalapeno pepper diced (leave seeds in for spicy)
- 55 oz. can Bush’s Baked Beans
- 8 oz. can pineapple tidbits drained, but reserve the juice
- 1 c. brown sugar
- 1 c. ketchup
- ½ Tablespoon dry ground mustard yellow
- Salt and black pepper to taste
- Optional: 1 c. chopped brisket or any other favorite smoked barbecue meat chopped fine, 5 hotdogs, sliced and seared before adding.
Instructions
- In a cast iron skillet or saute pan, pour in the chopped bacon pieces and turn the heat to medium. Saute until the bacon is crispy and remove from the pan with a slotted spoon to a plate lined with a paper towel to drain.
- In the same skillet leave the bacon fat and add the diced onion, bell pepper, and jalapeno. Cook for 3-4 minutes or until tender.
- In a disposable pan (or this can be made in the cast iron skillet), add the cooked peppers and onions cooked in the bacon grease, the canned baked beans, pineapple chunks, ketchup, brown sugar, and dry mustard.
- Stir well incorporating all of the ingredients, if it needs thinning add the reserved pineapple juice.
- Place the cooked bacon squares on top of the baked beans.
- Smoke the beans at 225° to 250° for 2 ½ to 3 hours over indirect heat. (This recipe can also be made by baking in a 350° oven for 1 hour.)
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Notes
If adding the optional meat, add with the other ingredients before placing the bacon on top. Then place in the barbecue smoker.
I love this recipe with 1 serrano pepper which is a more consistent heat than jalapeno peppers. The ribs and seeds can be removed for less spice.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 346kcal | Carbohydrates: 46g | Protein: 18g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 44mg | Sodium: 926mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 29g