BBQ Baked Beans with Little Smokies
These BBQ baked beans with Little Smokies will be a hit at your next summer BBQ or buffet. They're packed with rich, smoky barbeque flavor... bacon bits, bite-sized smoked sausages, molasses, brown sugar, and a sweet BBQ sauce.You can make these in your Instant Pot, crock pot, or a dutch oven on the stove top or in the oven. I like to use my Instant Pot, which is super convenient, doesn't heat up the kitchen, and can keep these hot for serving anywhere you can plug it in!
Equipment
- 1 Instant pot, crock pot, or dutch oven
Ingredients
- 4 slices bacon diced
- ½ cup diced onion 4 oz
- 24 oz cocktail sausages (little smokies)
- 8 cups canned or cooked navy beans or baked beans 2 quarts
- 1 cup peach BBQ sauce (substitute your favorite bbq sauce)
- ½ cup brown sugar packed
- 3 tbsp molasses
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- ½ tsp garlic powder
Instructions
prep ingredients:
- Slice off the root and top of the onion, halve through the root end, and peel.
- Dice the onion by slicing perpendicular towards the root end (without cutting all the way to the base) and then again horizontally across the first cuts.
- Cut the bacon slices in half lengthwise, stack them, and then slice thinly into small pieces.
saute bacon, onion, and sausages:
- Use the saute setting on your Instant Pot or heat a dutch oven over medium heat.
- Saute the bacon first, stirring until the fat begins to render.
- Add the diced onion to the pan. Stir and saute until the onion is translucent and beginning to brown.
- Add the Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, and mustard powder.
- Add the smoked sausages, and saute briefly, lightly browning them.
add beans & sauce:
- If you are using a crock pot, turn off the heat under the skillet, and transfer the sauteed onion & pork mixture and sausages to your crock pot.
- Add the brown sugar, molasses, and BBQ sauce. Stir and heat until the brown sugar dissolves.
- Pour in the canned beans, and fold the mixture together, stirring to mix the sauce, beans, and sausages.
pressure cook or slow cook:
- If you are using an Instant Pot, you can do a quick pressure cook on these to bring all the flavors together quickly, or slow cook them like using a crock pot. Either way, lock on the lid, close the steam valve, and choose your setting.
- To pressure-cook, use a low or normal manual setting, and set for about 12 minutes. You can do a natural release, or a quick-release if you are in a hurry. If you are not serving these right away, stir, close the lid, and use the slow-cook setting on low-medium to keep the beans hot.
- To slow cook, select the normal setting (or medium on most crock pots) and cook for several hours until the flavors have come together and you are ready to serve.
- Stove-top/dutch-oven directions: Cover the pot over medium-low to low heat, stirring regularly and watching so that the beans do not scorch. Cook for 20-45 minutes, or until the onions have dissolved into the sauce and the flavors are mellow. You can serve this sooner, but it improves with a bit of time to simmer.
- You can also transfer the pot to the oven, cover, and bake at 350-375F for 30-45 minutes, until the pot is bubbling throughout.
Nutrition
Calories: 493kcalCarbohydrates: 60gProtein: 21gFat: 19gSaturated Fat: 7gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 0.01gCholesterol: 41mgSodium: 1679mgPotassium: 779mgFiber: 9gSugar: 22gVitamin A: 57IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 118mgIron: 4mg
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