This easy baked beans recipe makes the best baked beans! It is a quick and easy side dish for a picnic or barbecue. It’s our favorite baked bean recipe and everyone loves it! You can find this recipe in volume 1 of our Dining On A Dime Cookbook.
The Best Easy Baked Beans Recipe
This easy baked beans recipe makes the best baked beans! A quick and easy side dish for burgers, barbecues and picnics that everyone loves!
Ingredients
1 (16 oz.) can of pork and beans
1 tsp. mustard
1 Tbsp. bacon grease
4 Tbsp. brown sugar
2 Tbsp. onion, chopped or 1/2 tsp. onion powder
Instructions
- Put all the ingredients in a saucepan.
- Mix thoroughly
- Simmer on medium heat 15-30 minutes. These can simmer longer if needed.
- Serve warm.
You can also bake these in the oven for 1 hour at 250° until thickened.
If you prefer, you can also cook for 1 hour in a crockpot on high. Serves 4.
This easy baked beans recipe is from volume 1 of our cookbook:
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This looks so good and easy! Less ingredients and less complicated than others I’ve seen. I haven’t bought pork and beans in forever because they all have hfcs these days. But lately I’ve been thinking that it’s not like I eat tons of hfcs at every meal so just because I eat something with it every now and then it won’t kill me. I need to try this recipe!
Lol Aileen. I am right there with you and like your way of thinking. This was my mom’s recipe and have used it for years. I have now made it so often that I don’t have to even get a measuring cup out or anything. For example I know that 2 fists of brown sugar is the right amount for my taste so toss that in and that a small squirt of mustard is perfect with a tablespoon scoop of bacon grease so it will get easier and earlier each time you make it.
Also I watch at Memorial Day, 4th of July etc. and the often have the good old pork and beans on sale so I stock up for the year on those.
Thank you, Jill! It’s taken me awhile to stop listening to the fear mongers concerning every little thing we eat these days. Everything in moderation and I love yours and Tawra’s sensible take on things. :)
Showboat brand Pork and Beans do not have corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup in them.
Aldi pork and beans don’t have hfcs. Definitely want to try this. Thanks!
This homemade baked beans recipe seems to be very easy and can be made quickly. Thanks for sharing.
What can you use instead of bacon grease?
You can use a couple of strips of bacon or put in come hickory smoked ham or use hickory smoked bar b q sauce although as with most recipes if you change the ingredients the recipe is never quite the same
I just made this recipe this past weekend and my husband LOVED it. This is now my favorite baked beans. Thank you!
Oh so glad you like it Christina. This was my mom’s (Tawra’s grandma’s) recipe and I have used it for years and really love it too.
Just chili sauce. It comes in a bottle by the catsup.