Boston Baked Beans (Classic)

Name: Boston Baked Beans (Classic)
Prep time: 8 h
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 13 h
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 500g dried navy beans, soaked overnight; 200g salt pork or thick bacon, diced; 1 large onion, diced; 3 tbsp molasses or treacle; 2 tbsp brown sugar; 2 tbsp ketchup; 1 tsp dry mustard; 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce; 2 cups water; salt and pepper to taste

Slow-cooked New England baked beans with salt pork, molasses and brown sugar. Removing the lid for the final hour of baking lets the liquid reduce down and thicken around the beans instead of staying thin and soupy.

Total time

780 min

Prep

480 min

Cook

300 min

Difficulty

easy

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

500gdried navy beans, soaked overnight

200gsalt pork or thick bacon, diced

1large onion, diced

3 tbspmolasses or treacle

2 tbspbrown sugar

2 tbspketchup

1 tspdry mustard

1 tspWorcestershire sauce

2 cupswater

salt and pepperto taste

Instructions

Parboil soaked beans 30 minutes. Drain.

Mix beans with remaining ingredients in a covered casserole.

Bake at 150°C for 4-5 hours, checking every hour and adding water if dry.

Remove lid for the last hour to thicken.

Season and serve.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories

Protein

0.4g

Fat

Carbs

10.9g

Fiber

0.5g

Sodium

97mg

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