Cowboy Beans
Smoky baked beans with ground beef, bacon and brown sugar, slow-simmered until thick — browning the beef and bacon properly before adding anything else is where most of the flavour actually comes from.
Total time
50 min
Prep
10 min
Cook
40 min
Difficulty
easy
Cuisine
American
comfort
Ingredients
1 lbground beef
8 slicesbacon, diced
2 canspinto beans
½ cupketchup
¼ cupbrown sugar
2 tbspmustard
1 tbspWorcestershire
1onion, diced
Instructions
1
Brown the ground beef and diced bacon together in a large pot over medium-high heat, breaking up the beef as it cooks.
2
Continue cooking until well coloured all over.
3
Add the diced onion and cook until softened, about 5 minutes.
4
Stir in the pinto beans, ketchup, brown sugar, mustard and Worcestershire, then simmer uncovered for about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally, until thickened.
Nutrition (estimated)
Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.
Calories
658
Protein
38.2g
Fat
28g
Carbs
67.8g
Fiber
0.9g
Sodium
1173mg
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