HONEY-MOLASSES BAKED BEANS WITH BACON & ONION

Categories: Beans, July2012, Summer

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup unsulfured molasses (you can use light or dark; I used dark)
• 1 Tablespoon honey
• 1/2 cup ketchup
• 1/4 cup honey mustard
• 3 cans (15 ounces each) navy beans, drained and rinsed
• salt and pepper, to taste (optional; I didn’t use any salt or pepper)
• 1 large onion, halved and sliced 1/4 inch thick
• 4 slices of bacon or turkey bacon, sliced crosswise in 1/2″ wide pieces (I used Oscar Mayer® Turkey Bacon)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a medium bowl, combine molasses, honey, ketchup, and honey mustard. Add beans and season with salt and pepper, if desired. Mix ingredients to combine.

2. Transfer mixture to a 2 to 3–quart covered baking dish. Scatter onion slices over beans something like this…then lay cut pieces of bacon on top of the onion slices in a single layer, covering onion as completely as possible, like this…Cover casserole dish and bake for 30 minutes at 375 degrees. Then uncover the dish and bake an additional 30 to 40 minutes, until bacon is crispy (I baked mine an additional 40 minutes). The baked beans will end up looking like this…Let the beans sit in the casserole dish for about 5 minutes, then mix everything together well before serving. After mixing the beans, onion, and bacon together, the beans will look a little lighter in color (so don’t be alarmed if they seem a little dark when they come out of the oven)…Serve beans immediately and enjoy!

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