BEST Baked Beans with Ground Beef Recipe
These Baked Beans with Ground Beef are the best Southern style baked beans. Spice up your canned baked beans with hamburger, bacon, & spices!
Ingredients
- 6 strips bacon (cut into 1 1/2” pieces)
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1 medium yellow onion (diced, about 1 cup)
- 1 medium red bell pepper (diced, about 1 cup)
- 3 (15 ounce) cans pork and beans (I used Bush's Original Baked Beans)
- 1/2 cup sweet BBQ sauce (I used Sweet Baby Ray’s Original Barbecue Sauce)
- 1/3 cup ketchup
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1 Tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 Tablespoon soy sauce
Directions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 350 F (176 C). Lightly grease a 13 x 9 casserole dish.
- 2
Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat and cook the bacon until it’s crispy (about 8 minutes). Remove the bacon from the skillet and discard any grease.
- 3
Return the nonstick skillet to the stove over medium heat. Cook the ground beef for 3 minutes and then drain away any grease. Add in the onions and red bell pepper and stir. Continue to cook until the beef is no longer pink and the onions are translucent (about 5 minutes).
- 4
Stir in the BBQ sauce, ketchup, brown sugar, Dijon mustard, Worcestershire sauce, and soy sauce. Then mix in the pork and beans. After everything is combined, pour the mixture into the greased casserole dish.
- 5
Place the cooked bacon pieces evenly over the beans. Cover the baking dish with aluminum foil and bake for 50 minutes.
- 6
Remove from the oven and let it rest for at least 10 minutes (to allow the beans to set and thicken up).