Dutch Oven Beans
| North America | Bacon | Beans
Ingredients
- 1 pound bacon
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1 large onion
- 1 large can (53 ounces) pork and beans
- 1 can (15 ounces) lima beans
- 1 can (15 ounces) pinto beans
- 1 can (15 ounces) red beans
- 1 can (15 ounces) butter beans
- ½ cup ketchup
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon dry mustard
- 2 tablespoons molasses
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon liquid smoke
Instructions
- Cut bacon into bite-sized pieces and begin cooking in heated Dutch oven.
- Chop onion into ½-inch pieces.
- When bacon is nearly cooked, crumble ground beef and chopped onion into Dutch oven. Cook until onion is translucent.
- Add all the beans, ketchup, brown sugar, mustard, molasses, and Worcestershire sauce. Stir mixture.
- Heat to a simmer and let bubble lightly for 10 or 15 minutes or as long as you can stand it.
- Stir in liquid smoke.
- Taste and adjust with additional ketchup, brown sugar, mustard, molasses, and Liquid Smoke or whatever it takes.