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Kitchen Sink Baked Beans

Source of Recipe

From "Southern Living: A Southern Gentleman's Kitchen"


Recipe Introduction

"Sometimes my greatest recipes are the result of necessity. In Georgia, we are not known to get many snowstorms — and when we do...Lord watch out. There's a run on white bread, eggs, and cold beer at the grocery store to the likes you've never seen. Just getting to the store is almost impossible. We love our 4 x 4s, but I'll be darned if I've ever seen a Southerner drive properly in the snow, me included. Several years back, I was snowed in in Athens, Georgia. When it came time to make a meal, I had to literally pull out everything I had in the cupboards and fridge to make something hearty enough to stand up to the cold outside. I threw in the whole kitchen sink but fortunately, I turned out a meal that is now a favorite side dish at all summer cookouts and dinner parties."

List of Ingredients

◦  1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
◦  ½ medium Vidalia or sweet onion, finely diced
◦  ½ green bell pepper, finely diced
◦  2 cloves garlic, minced
◦  ½ teaspoon kosher salt
◦  1 (15-ounce) can black beans, drained and rinsed
◦  1 (15.8-ounce) can great Northern beans, drained and rinsed
◦  1 (16-ounce) can dark kidney beans, drained and rinsed
◦  ⅓ cup ketchup
◦  ¼ cup bottled vinegar-based barbecue sauce
◦  ¼ cup dark brown sugar
◦  ¼ cup light molasses
◦  1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
◦  1½ teaspoon yellow mustard
◦  4 hickory-smoked bacon slices


Recipe

Preheat oven to 350° F. Place a 12-inch cast iron skillet over medium heat 1 minute or until hot; add oil. Stir in onion and next 3 ingredients; sauté 7 minutes or just until onion is tender and translucent.

Stir in black beans and next eight ingredients. Top with bacon slices. Transfer skillet to oven, and bake at 350° for 30 minutes.

Increase oven temperature to 450° F, and bake for 18 minutes or until bacon is crisp. Remove from oven, and let stand 10 minutes before serving.


Serves 6 to 8