Recession Recipe: Bar-B-Que Baked Beans!

Here we are -- the end of summer and the last summertime recipe of Economy Bites! We're sad that the scorching New York City summer days are at an end...but not really. Actually, it's pretty hard to do our show in the summer. No air conditioning in the kitchen = cranky, smelly E. Biters. Be glad that you're on THIS side of the camera!

Now that I've riled up your appetite, take a look at our final summer Economy Bites recipe: Bar-B-Que baked beans!

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Last time we used ketchup in a recipe I got criticized for having "ketchup as my main ingredient"...which it wasn't. It's also not the main ingredient here, so keep your fear at bay, a little ketchup won't kill you. It'll just make you say, "yummm".

Lastly: Beans on toast is a Southern thing. It's a great light meal, a yummy snack and it's crazy cheap to eat. It's cowboy food. So treat yourself to a nice home-on-the-range meal this weekend -- take some to a picnic or eat them for breakfast lunch and dinner. We promise tastiness.

INGREDIENTS

-3 medium yellow onions, diced

-3 cloves garlic, minced

-6 strips bacon

-1/2 cup molasses

-1/2 cup bar b que sauce

-1/2 cup ketchup

-1 1/2 Tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar

-1 1/2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce

-3 Tbsp Dijon Mustard

-4 1/2 Tbsp Dark Brown Sugar

-3 14.5oz cans Kidney beans, drained

-salt and pepper to taste

PROCEDURE

-Chop garlic and onion. Set aside

-In a bowl, combine molasses, bar b que sauce, ketchup, apple cider vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, Dijon mustard and brown sugar. Whisk and set aside.

-In a pot, heat olive oil until hot. Turn the heat to medium and cook bacon until crispy, about 8 minutes. Remove bacon to a plate with paper towels to soak up grease.

-Discard all but 2 Tbsp of the bacon fat from the pot and return pot to the oven. Turn heat back on to medium and toss in garlic and onion until soft, about 5 minutes.

-Drain and Rinse the beans. Add them and the sauce to the pot. Crumble in the bacon. Bring to a boil and simmer, uncovered for 15 minutes, stirring occassionally.

-Serve on toast, alone or with rice. Store in the fridge for up to a week!

 

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Comments

[violettefemme]

05:19 PM on 09/14/2010

Ummm...beans on toast is classically British, and I grew up spending summers in Augusta and never heard mention of it, saw it anywhere, ate, or know of anyone who ate this particular little "gem".

Southern thing----lmao, do HP writers just sit down and make stuff up, even in the food section?

[Ozark Homesteader]

10:28 AM on 09/13/2010

Um, I'm Southern, and the only time I've ever heard of beans on toast was in British novels and blogs and so forth. Am I the only Southerner who thinks of beans on toast this way?

That said, beans are good eats--with corn bread. :-)
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[CMB1969]

12:13 PM on 09/13/2010

No, you are not. I have lived throughout the South (Virginia, Charlotte, NC, and on the Arkansas/Oklahoma line for the past ten years) and have NEVER heard of beans on toast as anything other than a British thing. the recipe does sound good, but pinto beans would be more southern than kidney beans.

[Ozark Homesteader]

11:29 PM on 09/13/2010

Well, I'm glad I'm not alone! Thanks for confirming that for me. Anyone else want to jump in?

[MKWewer]

11:00 AM on 09/14/2010

I live in NC and have never eaten beans on toast here. When I was in London, yes. When I worked in a British pub in Los Angeles, yes. Here in Raleigh? Nope.

[Ozark Homesteader]

11:18 AM on 09/17/2010

Well, okay, then that's three Southerners who haven't ever heard of it. (Of course, there are millions others who haven't replied. :-) )

[starrynights]

03:40 PM on 09/12/2010

Beans are a great and cheap food. You can do a lot of different things with them. I like to soak my beans overnight. The next day I cook them with chopped onion, other fresh vegatables and basically anything leftovers that would taste good with beans! Your receipe sounds good, but I'm a diabetic, and your ingredients would put me in the hospital!

[SpikeC]

10:22 PM on 09/11/2010

Wow, some very negative vibes posted. I do disagree with using canned beans. The sauces used can be easily made from scratch if you have even a small amount of time, for a big bonus in flavor.
The biggest gripe that I have is the lack of baking! How can you make baked beans without baking them??

[Badger84]

02:27 AM on 09/12/2010

Agreed. Coconut cream and dandelion leaves? No soul. Yuk.

[Nicole Dixson]

05:52 PM on 09/11/2010

Serve with cornbread. That would make it yum. To serve it with rice, it should be chili. At least that is what my dad used to make with his rice.

[MKWewer]

11:01 AM on 09/14/2010

Have you ever put them on a baked potato with a little cheese and sour cream? It's a quick, cheap, yummy meal...

[Swami Premdas]

05:50 PM on 09/11/2010

thats a terrible receipe....preservatives etc...so slack and bacon.. yuk... pure chemical and pig adrenaline wtf..cowboys have problems..

here we go ....soak beans overnight....
add to boiling water few tomatoes chucked in..
mince up chillis(big mob) onion braggs sauce garlic
make some fresh coconut cream
when beans are cooked mix all together adding big heap diced cilantro or (diced dandilion leaves etc)..

healthy and yummy ... unlike that horrible receipe you give...........

[medicontheedge]

11:01 PM on 09/10/2010

Add chopped apples and some bourbob... maybe some leftover meat... heaven!