This is a recipe that I made for my nephew's barbecue cookout. I received praise from everyone, even my mother. She always claims that I add too much to my cooking. I showed her.
Ingredients
- thick cut bacon: 1 pound
- lean ground beef: 1 pound
- sage pork sausage: 0.5 pound
- clove garlic: 1 piece (crushed)
- onion: 1 piece (cut into 1/2 inch pieces)
- dark brown sugar: 1 cup
- real maple syrup: 1 cup
- ketchup: 1 cup
- prepared yellow mustard: 0.25 cup
- chipotle sauce: 0.5 cup
- baked beans: 1 can (16 ounce can)
- kidney beans: 1 can (16 ounce can)
- black beans: 1 can (16 ounce can)
- pinto beans: 1 can (16 ounce can)
- Great Northern beans: 1 can (16 ounce can)
- cannellini beans: 1 can (16 ounce can)
- chili powder: 1 Tbsp
- salt: (to taste)
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Place bacon in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat and cook until evenly brown. Drain, crumble and set aside.
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Place beef, sausage and garlic in Dutch oven and cook over medium-high heat until well done. Drain grease. Mix in onion and cook until tender. Stir in brown sugar, syrup, ketchup, mustard and chipotle sauce. Reduce heat to medium-low. Bring to a boil and cook 20 minutes, stirring often.
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Mix bacon, baked beans, kidney beans, black beans, pinto beans, great Northern beans and cannellini beans into Dutch oven. Continue cooking 20 minutes.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil. Season beans with chili powder and salt.
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Place Dutch oven on prepared baking sheet on lowest rack of preheated oven. Bake 30 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.
