Sweet 'n Spicy Mixed Baked Beans Recipe
Barbecue Beans with Spicy Sausage for Baking or Outdoor Parties
Jun 18, 2009
Baked beans or barbecue beans (as they’re sometimes called) are a staple dish at Southern pot luck dinners and for outdoor cook outs. Typically the beans are fairly sweet to contrast with meats and vegetable salads.
Most Southern cooks have a special baked bean dish recipe that can range from standard pork ‘n beans with additions like hamburger or bacon to more colorful bean mixtures also with various meats.
A number of sweeteners are used to give barbecue beans that lovely sweet flavor and can include brown sugar, molasses, honey, and soft drinks or a combination.
Mixed Baked Beans with Sausage combines some of the various sweeteners as well as spicy or hot sausage for a nice contrast within the dish. Regular sausage can be substituted for a more traditional “sweet only” baked bean dish.
Sweet ‘n Spicy Mixed Baked Beans with Sausage Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 pound hot or spicy sausage
- ½ cup onion chopped
- 1 large (28 oz) can baked beans
- 1 can black beans drained (14 to 16 oz)
- 1 can red kidney beans drained (14 to 16 oz)
- 1 can Great Northern beans drained (14 to 16 oz)
- 1 can Navy beans drained (14 to 16 oz)
- ½ cup ketchup
- ¼ cup packed brown sugar (light or dark)
- ¼ cup honey
- ¼ cup Coca-Cola or Pepsi
- 1/8 cup whiskey (Jack Daniels is good)
- 2 TBS Worcestershire sauce
- 1 TBS yellow hot dog mustard
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp pepper
Directions:
- Cook the sausage in a skillet. Use a fork to crumble the meat well as it is frying.
- Drain off excess sausage fat.
- Add onions to sausage and cook just a bit longer until onions are limp.
- Set aside sausage mixture.
- In a large bowl, combine the beans. Be sure to drain all beans except the pork and beans.
- In a small bowl, combine ketchup, brown sugar, honey, cola, whiskey, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, salt, and pepper and mix well.
- Stir the sausage into the bean mixture toss to mix meat in evenly.
- Add the sauce mixture to the bean mixture and stir.
- Spray a long baking dish (9 x 13) with non-stick spray.
- Pour bean mixture into baking dish.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes to an hour depending on how dry or moist you prefer baked beans.
These beans can also be done outside on a cook stove or on a grill side burner. If making mixed baked beans outside, use a sturdy stock pot for heating. The beans will be soupier – more like chili beans if cooked in a stock pot versus baked in the oven.
Try these other yummy baked or barbecue bean recipes:
Baked Beans with Hamburger - This is a smaller batch of baked beans using pork 'n beans with ground beef.
Bacon Baked Beans - Pork and beans with kidney beans along with some bacon for flavor make this simple bean recipe popular.
Jack Daniels Baked Beans - Whiskey and salsa give this baked bean recipe a lot of zing. These are very popular served with barbecue ribs.
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