Honey Bacon Baked Beans is a sticky, salty and sweet recipe. These are perfect to serve at your next BBQ or Summer get-together! Try soon!
Side Dishes are the best part of a cookout and these baked beans are no exception. Try out my Southern Baked Beans and Brisket Baked Beans too.
Sabrina’s Honey Bacon Baked Beans Recipe
I love when its summer time for all the great BBQ parties. The buffet of side dishes is the best part to go along side all of the delicious grilled meat. Add these baked beans to the table, and it takes the party to a whole new level. I tested several different versions of these to get them right and I’m pretty sure you will be addicted.
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Ingredients
- 4 slices thick cut bacon , cut into cubes
- 1/2 cup yellow onion , chopped
- 1 (16-oz) can pinto beans , drained and rinsed
- 1 (16-oz) can white beans , drained and rinsed
- 1 (16-oz) can dark red kidney beans , drained and rinsed
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1/2 cup water
- 2/3 cup ketchup
- 1/3 cup molasses
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Place bacon in a large cast iron or other heavy bottomed oven safe skillet.
- Cook over medium heat until browned and most of the fat is rendered.
- Remove the bacon.
- Cook the onion in the bacon fat until caramelized and brown.
- Pour out the excess bacon fat.
- Add the bacon back into the pan.
- Add in the beans and the rest of the ingredients.
- Cover tightly and cook in the oven for 1 hour.
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About this Recipe
These Honey Bacon Baked Beans are made with bacon, honey and a bit of brown sugar. It is hard to turn them down. They are easy to prep from scratch in just a few minutes and then you just let the oven do all the work.
Pairing Ideas
These beans are best paired with Applesauce BBQ Chicken or Ultimate Oven Barbecue Ribs. Some other delicious sides to pair along side would be easy cole slaw, Creamy Macaroni Salad, and hearty mac and cheese.
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I made this tonight & it turned out great!! My husband loved it as well. The only thing I did different was I swapped the red kidney beans for black eyed peas and I cut up two slices of ham that I had in freezer from Christmas and added that to it. I will definitely be making this again! I even bought a cast iron skillet to make sure they’d turn out right.
These have to be the best baked beans I’ve ever had and I’ve had quite a few in my days. I made them in my cast iron fry pan and they were incredible.
I don’t have a cast-iron skillet… can I do them in a 9×13 casserole in the oven?
I made this tonight and wow, what a fantastic, easy dish. Didn’t have pintos, so I just used more of both the red kidney and cannellini beans. Subbed Dijon for yellow mustard since it was what I had, and it worked perfectly.
I don’t know what grade of molasses you used, but I had both blackstrap and “robust” (midpoint between fancy/light and blackstrap) and used the latter so it wouldn’t be too harsh-tasting.
If anyone is on the fence about making this, don’t be. It is wonderful.
Absolutely brilliant. I made this for a potluck and the entire class loved it! It was pretty much gone.
To those who are looking to make this:
In my trying of this recipe, I only had 1/3 a cup of ketchup. I replaced the rest with BBQ sauce from the fridge. I also used 4 cans of beans (the extra being kidney) instead of three, which is more than enough. I fed around 30-40 people at my potluck, but wanted some for dinner so I made extra. A side note, the pinto beans (at least the ones I had) were more firm than the other beans at the end. They were still PLENTY soft, but it does provide a nice texture. It just may not be your thing.
Overall, a brilliant recipe! Super simple and easy, no hard stuff. Will make again! Thanks.
Can I make these in the slow cooker? How long? Also, are white beans and butter beans similar? Thanks bunches!
Butter beans are the same as Lima beans so they aren’t the same as white beans. I would recommend using cannellini or Northern beans. Unfortunately, you won’t get the same amazing flavor from making this in a slow cooker. The bacon in this recipe really does better in an oven.
Cannellini beans are White Kidney beans. I have another recipe that called for just White Beans and didnt specify what kind of white beans. So I narrowed it down by the picture. That’s when I discovered that cannellini beans are just another name for white kidney beans. They have a slight different taste than the red ones do.
Where does the oven come into play? Says to preheat to 375?
Oh no! I’m just seeing your question now and hope that I didn’t ruin a Labor Day recipe you were planning on making!! I’m so sorry. The oven comes into play at the end and I realized that was a bit confusing in the instructions so I updated it.
Wowza ! This looks amazing drool worthy dish ! Bravo!
Aww thanks 🙂 You’re too kind!
These look amazing! Can’t wait to try these.
Thanks!
These beans looks very tasty and flavorful!
Wow, these look delicious, my mouth is watering! I am pinning these to make at my next BBQ!
Thanks for pinning! I hope you love them!
I love making anything in the cast iron skillet. So good. Love making homemade baked beans too. Taste so much better.
Yes! Me too! Any excuse to use it!
I love baked beans at summer get togethers, but I usually cheat and buy them already made or just buy canned and doctor them up. I’m TOTALLY making your recipe! It looks so good.
Thanks! I do see a lot of doctored up versions out there. This one was a breeze so I didn’t feel put out.
Bake, how long?
I have not been able to stomach even the smell of baked beans as an adult, but I want so badly to cook them for my kiddos to see if they will eat them. This recipe is something I will certainly give a try to, and shared on my FB page so I can come back to it again!
How sweet! thank you for sharing! I hope these work out for you 🙂
Those look so good! We have baked beans at every family cookout and they are even better with baked beans.
Yum! These look and sound incredible. My husband would flip if I ever did this for him., I will have to for his birthday!
I like the mix of beans in this recipe. I think it looks and sounds delicious.
Thanks!
Okay, so these look all kinds of perfect. I cannot and I mean I CANNOT wait to make these. Honey, bacon, and beans? You are speaking to this southern girl’s soul right now. lol
Haha, how sweet of you! Thank you 🙂
I love baked beans so these are calling my name. I can’t get enough grilling either, I grill every single day .
Me too! I love grilling and am lucky enough to be in a climate where I can grill anytime.
Those sound awesome. I always put bacon in by baked beans. I think bacon makes everything better.
I may be wrong, but I really think bacon can solve all the world’s problems. Who could be unhappy while eating a warm crispy piece of bacon
What an easy way to get baked beans made and ready to enjoy! I’ll have to keep this in mind when I don’t feel like cooking it all from scratch.
Yup! And they taste like you spent all day on them 🙂
I was looking forward to reading reviews of the recipe after making. Why are there only comments of how good the beans look before making them. Pretty useless reviews.
I really can’t control what people say. I would love it if you tried it and came back with a review though?