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Easy Baked Beans
Description
This Easy Baked Beans recipe is a lightened-up version of everyone’s favorite backyard barbecue recipe. Naturally sweetened with maple syrup and flavored with homemade bbq sauce, these are the BEST baked beans from scratch, in less time!
Ingredients
- 2 cans Great Northern Beans (15-ounce cans)
- ¼ cup, plus 2 tablespoons barbecue sauce recommended: Homemade Barbecue Sauce
- ¼ cup ketchup
- 3 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce (omit, adding extra salt to taste, to make vegetarian)
- 1 ½ teaspoons smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon dry mustard
- ½ teaspoon ground cumin
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 small yellow onion finely diced
Directions
- Rinse and drain beans. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the barbecue sauce, ketchup, maple syrup, tomato paste, Worcestershire, paprika, mustard, cumin, salt, and pepper. Set aside.
- Heat the olive oil in a small saucepan over medium-high. Once the oil is hot, add the onion and sauté until fragrant and soft, about 2 minutes.
- Add the barbecue sauce mixture and bring to a boil. Add the drained beans.
- Reduce heat to low and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Serve warm.
