Baked Beans with Smoked Sausage

Baked Beans with Smoked Sausage

from spicysouthernkitchen.com
Side Dish
60 min
8 servings
368 kcal / serving

Baked Beans with smoked sausage are super meaty and thick. Lots of sweetness from brown sugar, molasses, and ketchup.

Ingredients

  • 2slices bacon (chopped into 1/2-inch pieces)
  • 1sweet onion (chopped)
  • 2 clovesgarlic (finely chopped)
  • ½ poundsmoked sausage (sliced, i use kielbasa)
  • 3cans pork and beans
  • ½ cupketchup
  • ⅓ cuppacked light brown sugar
  • ¼ cupmolasses
  • 2 tablespoonsapple cider vinegar
  • 2 tablespoonsyellow mustard
  • ¼ teaspoonhot sauce (i use tabasco)

Directions

  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

  2. 2

    In a Dutch oven, cook bacon until crispy. Remove with a slotted spoon and place on a paper towel-lined plate.

  3. 3

    Add onion to bacon drippings and cook until soft.

  4. 4

    Add garlic and smoked sausage and cook until sausage is browned.

  5. 5

    Stir in remaining ingredients including bacon. Bring to a simmer. Place Dutch oven, uncovered, in oven and cook for 45 to 55 minutes, until thick.