Church Picnic Baked Beans
- 1 lb 85% lean ground beef
- 4 (15 7/8 ounce) cans great northern beans
- 2 cups ketchup
- 1/2 cup hickory flavored barbecue sauce
- 1/2 cup granulated brown sugar
- 1 cup onion
- 1/2 cup green pepper
- 1/4 cup red pepper
- 7 slices bacon
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 1/2 teaspoons dry mustard
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/4 cup water (If using the crock pot. If using the oven omit this step)
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees (F) instructions for conventional oven.
- Finely chop the onions, green peppers and red peppers.
- drizzle olive oil in large deep skillet.
- add the chopped vegetables and saute until slightly softened.
- add the 85% lean ground beef to the slightly sauteed veggies and brown until no longer pink set aside.
- slightly fry the 4 slices of bacon until it slightly starts to brown set aside.
- in a large bowl add ketchup, hickory barbecue sauce, granulated brown sugar, dry ground mustard, 2 tablespoons honey and mix together well.
- open the 4 cans of Great Northern Beans and rinse well.
- Place all 4 cans in a 9 x 13 in baking dish.
- Take the 85% lean ground beef mixture and mix well into the beans.
- Pour the Ketchup mixture into the beans and mix well making sure all the beans and meat are covered with the saucesmall amount of bacon drippings (it should only be a small amount).
- drizzle the remaining 1 tablespoon of honey over the top.
- top with remaining 3 strips of bacon.
- Cook at 300 degrees for 2 hours.
- Remove bacon before serving.
- If cooking in the crock pot follow steps for cooking the veggie mixture, meat mixture.
- Cook bacon as directed above.
- mix sauce as directed above.
- Place the meat and veggie mixture and the ketchup mixture in the crock pot and mix well.
- Place the remaining bacon on top of the beans and drizzle the bacon drippings.
- Drizzle the remaining 1 tablespoon of honey.
- add the 1/4 cup water.
- Cover the crock pot and cook on low for 5-6 hours and 3-4 hours on low.
ground beef, great northern beans, ketchup, hickory flavored barbecue sauce, brown sugar, onion, green pepper, red pepper, bacon, honey, honey, mustard, olive oil, water
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/church-picnic-baked-beans-435179 (may not work)