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Easy BBQ Baked Beans by Red Beans and Eric

Easy BBQ Baked Beans

Comforting, sweet, spicy, smoky, and healthy. You can serve these beans at a backyard barbeque, a holiday potluck, or for a weeknight meal with fried eggs - which is how I served this fantastic bean recipe. The best part is, this version is vegetarian friendly.

Course Side Dish
Cuisine Vegetarian
Keyword baked beans, vegetarian
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings 6 people
Author Red Beans and Eric

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 onion diced
  • 1 bell pepper diced
  • 2 cloves of garlic minced
  • 2 tsp smoked paprika
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1 tsp celery salt
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper
  • 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
  • 2 tbsp yellow mustard
  • 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 1/2 tsp liquid smoke
  • 3 15- oz canned beans I use red kidney and cannellini, drained and well rinsed
  • 1 cup Kevin's Natural Foods BBQ Sauce
  • 1/2 water plus more if needed

BBQ BAKED BEANS with Fried Egg

  • 1-2 egg fried, per person
  • green onions chopped for garnishment
  • salt
  • pepper
  • hot sauce if desired

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 F.
  2. In a large pot over MEDIUM heat, saute the onions, bell pepper, and garlic until the onions are transparent. Add the remaining ingredients to the pot: the smoked paprika, cumin, celery salt, black pepper, crushed red pepper flakes, yellow mustard, Worcestershire sauce, liquid smoke, Kevin's Natural Foods BBQ sauce, and the beans. Mix all the ingredients together. Allow the pot to come to a slight boil then transfer the contents to an oven-safe casserole dish.
  3. Place the beans in the oven, uncovered, and bake for 1-hour, or until the beans are tender. If the beans appear to dry out, add water as needed. Towards the end of the cooking time, I added another 1 cup of water.

BBQ BAKED BEANS with Fried Egg

  1. For each serving, in a small skillet, fry 1 to 2 eggs in extra virgin olive oil. Place hot BBQ Baked Beans in a shallow bowl and spread the beans aside in the center. When the eggs are finished, slide in the center of the beans and top with chopped green onions, salt and pepper and serve with your favorite hot sauce.

Recipe Notes

PRO TIP: To enhance the flavor of the beans, instead of adding water, add vegetable stock, coffee, or more barbecue sauce.