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.