how do doctor up canned baked beans?
We have just been invited to a bbq tonight and were asked to bring baked beans. I don't have time to make them from scratch, so what is the best way to doctor up a few cans to make them taste like the real thing?
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rworange
Nov 4, 2008 06:14 PM
While looking for info on baked bean sandwiches, I found this great article on doctoring canned beans. This looked like the best idea -
Bourbon Baked Beans
Ingredients:
Four 16-oz. jars or cans of baked beans
One 15-oz. can crushed pineapple, drained
One 12-oz. jar chili sauce
1/2 cup strong brewed coffee
1/2 cup bourbon
1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 Tbs. molasses
3/4 tsp. dry mustard
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Everyone's covered my additons, except for changing the sweet to sorghum (when I have it) and any smoked meat (I try to freeze any bits and pieces just for times like this).
I did come out of reading the recipes here with a big grin...not a single one of us uses anything like a precise measurement. Our greatgrandmothers would be so proud. -
Like a fair amount of respondents, I'm from the mustardy oniony high-flavored animal protein fixer-upper school. Adding dry mustard, an brown onion that has been diced and carmelized, some brown sugar or molasses, and some sliced franks was a standard dinner dish that my mom used to make about once every few weeks. Poured over a plate of rice, I'd always ask for seconds.
The recipes that offer up bbq sauce or adobo sound very appealing as well, but I'm guessing there's going to be tons of food that has already been sauced up with these types of flavors. Maybe this more mildly flavored recipe will work well with the bbq food...
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alkapal
Aug 2, 2008 06:31 AM
my mom used to add dry mustard, sauteed bacon and chopped onions, and a little brown sugar, then bake for 1/2 hour or so. i can still recall the cans of van camp's brand pork and beans. http://www.conagrafoods.com/consumer/...
nowadays, i'm really liking the bush's bbq beans. no doctoring needed.
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chef chicklet
Aug 1, 2008 11:34 AM
if you can use your crockpot, and add dry mustard, 2 T molasses or brown sugar or sometimes both it depends on the brand and style I started with..
1 medium carmelized onion, 4 - 5 strips of bacon that you've sauteed, saving the fat,add 1 T of the fat, 1 T garlic powder, and a glurg of ketchup or add a dash of clove and cinammon, and 1 finely chopped serrano chili seeds removed membrane ok.
Bake till bubbling,or put them in the crockpot on high, reduce the heat later today once they're good and hot. Pretty good for canned beans. If you don't have dry mustard, use 1 -2 T of yellow. The carmalized onion adds some of that long cooked flavor we love of baked beans from scatch. This is exactly what I do I hate to admit, more often than starting from dry beans...;O -
my recipe which is vegetarian beans. saute an onion in a little vegetable oil, add finely minced garlic and cumin seeds. then add minced jalapeno and beans to this mixture. also add a couple of tblspns of tomato ketchup and finish with chopped cilantro. i like to put these on crackers top with pepper jack cheese and bake till cheese melts and serve as appetizers. very popular with indians.
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I am ashamed to admit that sometimes when I am lazy I have used the canned beans when I have had a bbq, and just ran out of time/emergy
I do make them a little better by adding some kilbasa I have smoked on the smoker. I cube the smoked kilbasa, add pickle relish, and & some bbq sauce.
They actually go over pretty good with the guests.
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Cowprintrabbit
Aug 1, 2008 11:09 AM
I always have to work around a dear veggie friend, so I add a glug of BBQ sauce and stick them in the crockpot till they bubble. Sounds boring, but I get so many compliments... I usually use Bush's brand.
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I have a great recipe from a collegue that I have been making for years. Use about 4 small cans of baked beans (whatever brand/flavour you like); 1 28 oz can diced tomatoes, 1 chopped onion, 1/4 lb of diced, cooked bacon; 1/4 cup bbq sauce (any flavour) and if you like it.. 1/4 cup of hot sauce (I prefer Frank's Red Hot). Bake in oven or simmer on stove for 1 hr. Thickens up as it cools.
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Have never made them from scratch, as no one else in family eats them, just me. I like Bush's baked beans, they come in several varieties. I like the honey maple kind, usually add some sauteed finely diced onion, some dijon mustard and smoked bacon. Don't care for overly sweet, sometimes add a drop or two of red wine vinegar to make it sweet & sour. Honestly, they are pretty good and sometimes I just heat them from can.
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re: Diane in Bexley
sautee some bacon. add a chopped onion and a couple of cloves of garlic and half a red bell pepper diced. Throw in the baked beans. Add a couple squirts of bbq sauce, a couple tablespoons of dijon, and a couple tablespoons brown sugar. Oh and a dash of worchestershire. Then simmer for 15 minutes or so.
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