Southern Style Baked Beans
You know how you lay slices of bacon on top of baked beans and they cook up all glorious? Except that they shrink up so much that when the beans are done only the center of your dish has bacon?
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Ingredients
- 2 28-oz. cans cheap-o pork n’ beans
- ½ cup ketchup
- ½ cup barbeque sauce
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
- 2 teaspoons worcestershire sauce
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- ¼ teaspoon Liquid Smoke (optional)
- 6 slices thick-cut bacon
Instructions
- Combine ketchup, barbeque sauce, brown sugar, mustard, worcestershire sauce, Liquid Smoke, garlic and pepper in a medium-sized bowl then mix well; set aside.
- Open each can of beans and pour off all the standing liquid in the top of the can. Discard liquid then add beans to the ketchup mixture. Mix beans gently with the ketchup mixture until thoroughly combined then pour into a shallow 2-quart baking dish.
- Cut bacon into ½ inch pieces then place pieces evenly in a single layer on top of beans.
- Bake beans, uncovered, at 350 degrees for 1 to 1.5 hours or until bacon is cooked through and starting to crisp. Enjoy!
