Description
These homemade baked beans from scratch start with dried beans and end with baked beans perfection! They are worth the time.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 pound dry Great Northern beans
- 1 pound bacon, chopped
- 1 large yellow onion, chopped
- 2 jalapeños, chopped (omit if you don’t like spicy)
- 1/4 cup tomato paste
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup molasses
- vegetable broth
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (omit if you don’t like spicy)
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
Instructions
- Soak your beans overnight with just enough cold water to cover the beans.
- Preheat the oven to 250 degrees.
- Drain your beans and reserve the soaking liquid.
- Heat a Dutch oven or large, heavy-bottomed pan over medium heat and add the bacon, onion, and jalapeño pepper. Cook about 5 minutes, until the onion and jalapeño are softened.
- Add the tomato paste, maple syrup, molasses, and beans.
- Measure your soaking liquid and add enough vegetable broth to equal 4 cups of liquid total. Add this to the Dutch oven and bring to a boil over high heat.
- Add the cayenne, black pepper, and salt and stir to combine.
- Cover and cook in the preheated oven (25o degrees) for 6-8 hours, until the beans are cooked.*
Notes
*Mine were perfect after 6 hours.
Recipe adapted from Alton Brown’s recipe.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 6-8 hours