Barbecue Baked Beans with Jack Daniels Whiskey
Spike Your Cook Out Beans with a Little Whiskey and Coca-Cola
May 20, 2009
Baked beans are always a staple at Southern cook outs and grill events as well as pot luck dinners and family reunions. Baked beans are easy to make, and they can be doctored up so many different ways. That makes barbecue beans a fun dish to make and fun to eat.
Every Southern cook seems to have some secret ingredient in the baked beans. Well, a few just dump the beans in and warm them up, and while that’s not awful, it’s not all that terrific either. Two favorite little tweaks are to add a little whiskey or cola or both. Barbecue Baked Beans with Jack Daniels has both. Do note that you don’t put a lot of either in the baked beans. Otherwise they turn out kind of soupy.
Barbecue Baked Beans with Jack Daniels and Cola Recipe
Ingredients:
- ½ pound ground beef
- 1 small onion (chopped fine)
- 1 can of pork n beans (plain ones are just fine and cost less)
- ½ jar of salsa (8 ounces total in the beans)
- 2 tsp brown sugar (light or dark)
- 2 TBS Jack Daniels
- 1 TBS cola (any brand is fine – Coke, Pepsi, RC Cola)
- 2 TBS ketchup
- 2 TBS yellow mustard (regular yellow or spicy brown is OK)
- 1 tsp Texas Pete hot sauce (or other favorite hot sauce)
Directions:
- Brown the beef in a skillet. Use a fork as you’re cooking to crumble it pretty fine.
- Drain off fat.
- Add the onions and cook briefly. They don’t have to be cooked through but enough to bring out the flavor.
- Remove meat and onions from heat.
- In a bowl, combine beans, salsa, brown sugar, Jack Daniels, cola, ketchup, mustard, and Texas Pete and stir.
- Add the ground beef and onions and stir again.
- Spray a 9 x 9 baking pan with Pam spray so that clean up is easier. If using an 8 x 8 pan, cook a little longer and if using a 9 x 11 cook a little less.
- Carefully pour the bean mixture into the pan. Splashes up the side tend to burn, make it hard to clean the pan, and splashes don’t look pretty. Wipe up any splashes for less headaches.
- Cover the beans with a lid or with tin foil if your baking pan does not have a lid.
- Bake for around an hour at 350 degrees F. The beans should be bubbly. If they still look a little soupy or if you like the top dryer, then remove the lid or tin foil and bake a little longer – 10 to 15 minutes or so.
Need some other barbecue or cook out side dishes? Try out these favorite Southern recipes:
Grandma's Old Fashioned Potato Salad - It's a classic. There are some variations, but this is the real deal if you loved the potato salad they used to make.
Summer Pasta Salad - Colorful and flavorful, this one is simple and has a little zip. Make it the night ahead and then relax and enjoy yourself and your company.
Chilled Black Eyed Pea Salad - This is a really easy chilled salad. Stick in the cooler, and you have a nice refreshing side dish. You may also hear this one called Texas Caviar.
Southern Pig Pickin' Cake - You don't have to smoke a pig to enjoy this dessert recipe. It's another easy recipe which makes it popular down South.
For help with all your barbecue or grill plans and parties, see Yes You Can Grill.
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