Sausage Baked Beans
- 1 pound Dry Navy Beans
- 12 cups Fresh Water
- 1 whole Bay Leaf
- 1 whole Cooking Onion, Peeled
- 1/4 pounds Spicy Link Sausage
- 1/2 cups Molasses
- 1 Tablespoon Brown Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Dry Mustard Powder (or 1 Tablespoon Prepared Yellow Mustard)
- Salt And Pepper, to taste
- Place Navy beans in a Dutch oven or other stove-top and oven safe deep-sided heavy pan with a tight fitting cover.
- Pour 12 cups of fresh water over the beans, cover, and place over high heat.
- Bring to a boil and allow to cook for 2 minutes.
- Remove from heat and allow to sit at room temperature overnight, still covered.
- In the morning, remove the cover, add the bay leaf, stir the beans and return to a boil over high heat.
- Lower the heat to medium and simmer for about 30 minutes or until beans are just beginning to become tender, adding more boiling water if necessary.
- Youre not looking to get the beans totally tender, you just want them to be starting to get tender.
- Theyll finish cooking as they bake!
- Remove the beans from the heat again and pour into a colander in the sink.
- Fish out and discard the bay leaves.
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
- Evenly scatter the chunks of link sausage over the bottom of the pan you used to soak and cook the beans.
- (Rinsing the pan between steps is unnecessary!)
- Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, stir together the molasses, brown sugar and mustard powder and then pour the hot beans over top.
- Gently fold the beans and molasses mixture together and then scrape into the pan over the sausage pieces.
- Cut a deep x into the bottom of your peeled onion and push the onion down into the center of the beans.
- Pour additional boiling water over the beans to cover them by about an inch.
- Place the pan, uncovered, in the oven and bake for about three hours.
- Check the beans periodically to make sure theyre not becoming dry.
- As soon as the beans are tender (this could be less than three hours or more depending on the age of the beans; just check them every now and again!
- ), stir them so that youre transferring the beans that were on bottom to the top and vice versa.
- Raise the ovens heat to 400 degrees F and cook, still uncovered, until the sauce around the beans is thick and bubbly.
- Remove from the oven, cover, and allow to cool until they are a comfortable temperature to eat.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- These beans are great hot, warm, room temperature or cold.
- In short, eat them with dinner and then sneak them from the refrigerator at midnight.
- I wont tell.
- Store leftovers, tightly covered, in the refrigerator for up to a week.
- They freeze and reheat well, too!
beans, water, bay leaf, onion, sausage, molasses, brown sugar, mustard powder, salt
Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/main-courses/sausage-baked-beans/ (may not work)