Southern Baked Beans (+Video)
These Southern Baked Beans are the best homemade baked beans you will ever make! An easy, delicious side dish to any cookout or BBQ.
A DELICIOUS HOMEMADE BAKED BEANS RECIPE
I have been slowly working on this baked beans recipe for a few years now. I love a good thick, flavorful sauce with a good smoky bacon flavor. These Southern Baked Beans are pretty simple to make and I promise everyone will be asking for the recipe after they try them!
INGREDIENTS NEEDED: (FULL RECIPE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST)
- bacon
- onion
- pork & beans
- mustard
- maple syrup
- ketchup
- molasses
- brown sugar
- salt and pepper
HOW TO MAKE SOUTHERN BAKED BEANS:
In a large frying pan, fry bacon until crispy, drain on a paper towel then crumble the bacon. Reserve about 1/4 cup of the bacon grease in the pan.
Finely chop the onions and saute them over medium heat in the bacon drippings until onion is clear. If your bacon didn’t produce enough grease, just add a little oil to your pan if necessary.
Add in all the remaining ingredients into the pan (including cooked and crumbled bacon) and stir.
Pour bean mixture into an ungreased 9×13-inch baking dish and bake covered (with aluminum foil) for about an hour (until brown and bubbly).
If you like your beans to be a little less sauce-y, take the aluminum foil off and bake for about another 20-30 minutes (stirring the beans occasionally.) The longer it cooks, the thicker it gets.
Stir again before serving.
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Southern Baked Beans (+Video)
Ingredients
- ½ pound bacon
- 1 medium onion
- 3 (16 ounce) cans pork and beans, undrained
- 3 Tablespoons mustard (yellow or dijon)
- ¾ cup maple syrup
- ⅔ cup ketchup
- ⅓ cup molasses
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large frying pan, fry bacon until crispy, drain on a paper towel then crumble the bacon. Reserve about 1/4 cup of the bacon grease in the pan
- Finely chop the onions and saute them over medium heat in the bacon drippings until onion is clear. If your bacon didn't produce enough grease, just add a little oil to your pan if necessary.
- Add in all the remaining ingredients into the pan (including cooked bacon) and stir.
- Pour bean mixture into an ungreased 9×13-inch baking dish and bake covered (with aluminum foil) for about an hour (until brown and bubbly).
- If you like your beans to be a little less sauce-y, take the aluminum foil off and bake for about another 20-30 minutes (stirring the beans occasionally.) The longer it cooks, the thicker it gets.
- Stir again before serving.
Video
Nutrition
Nutritional Disclaimer
“The Country Cook” is not a dietician or nutritionist, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and other nutritional values are important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories and other nutritional values can vary quite a bit depending on which brands were used.
Originally published: February 2011
Updated & republished: June 2019
I really want to make these baked beans but I’m having a heat wave here with no ac in my home. Can I make them in a crock pot or in the microwave instead?
This looks really good. It brings me home.
Good recipe you came up with, I have been making baked beans for 40 years using all the same ingredients you used except I use Grandma Brown’s baked beans instead of pork and beans! I would never be able to write down my recipe though because I never measured anything…
Best baked beans I've ever had! Everyone who has tried them, LOVED them!
Thanks April, so glad everyone loves them as much as we do!
I have been making these beans for 40 years! Never fail…always delicious!
This was a fantastic recipe! Made this for my husband who is a southerner and my parents. They loved the beans. I also cooked them longer without the foil to thicken them up .
Can I use this recipe but use a crock pot instead of the oven?
How long do you recommend it being in the crock pot for?
We have made these for years. Sometime I brown hamburger or hotdogs and add that to the dish before baking. Delish!
I added a chopped bell pepper to this recipe, oh so good!!!!
Love the recipes. Keep them coming 🙂
::Sigh:: I love baked beans. They look so, so very good and make me think of all things summer. Thank you for starting the season early for us!