Best Baked Beans
original post:http://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2015/06/best-baked-beans-ever.html
Ingredients
2 tablespoon coconut oil
2 medium onions
3 garlic cloves
1 tablespoon fresh rosemary
2 oranges (zest and juice)
1 cup ketchup
¼ cup molasses
½ cup brown sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon smoked paprika
1 ¼ tablespoon liquid smoke
2 can pinto beans
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees
- Cut the onions into fine bits
- Finely chop the rosemary leaves
- Shred the garlic cloves
- Remove Zest from the oranges
- In a cast iron pot or Dutch oven heat the coconut oil and sauté the onions, garlic, rosemary, and orange zest
- Strain the canned beans and set aside
- In a bowl combine the juice from the 2 oranges, ketchup, molasses, sugar, salt, smoked paprika and liquid smoke. Stir until sugar and molasses are dissolved completely
- Pour the liquid mixture and the beans into the sauté onion mixture
- Place in the oven covered for 2 hours
- Remove the cover and cook for another two hours uncovered to thicken up and develop a rich dark color
- Serve when slightly cooled or at room temperature
Greedy Tips:
Great northern beans, navy beans or cannellini beans would be the ideal beans for a baked bean recipe. But as luck would have it I found none. So I used Pinto beans and they worked out just fine, they are a little larger than the traditional baked bean size but still turned out great.