Boston Baked Beans
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Recipe type: Side Dish
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 10
 
Ingredients
  • 2 cups navy beans
  • ½ pound bacon or salt pork
  • 1 onion, finely diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tsp salt
  • ½ tsp ground pepper
  • ½ tsp mustard
  • 3 Tbsp tomato paste
  • 2 chopped tomatoes
  • 1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • ¼ cup molasses
Instructions
  1. Soak beans overnight in cold water.
  2. Simmer the beans in fresh water until tender, approximately 1 to 2 hours. Drain and reserve the liquid.
  3. Preheat oven to 325 F.
  4. Stir the beans, bacon, onion, and garlic in a 2 quart bean pot or casserole dish.
  5. In a small saucepan, combine salt, pepper, mustard, tomato, tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, molasses and brown sugar. Bring the mixture to a boil and pour over the beans. Pour in just enough bean water to cover the beans. Cover the dish with a lid or aluminium foil.
  6. Bake for 2 to 3 hours, until beans are tender. Remove the lid halfway through cooking, adding more liquid if necessary to prevent the beans from becoming too dry.
  7. Serve with corn bread or Boston brown bread.
Variation: To make this recipe vegetarian, omit the bacon and add one or two slices of vegetarian ham. To make it vegan, go one step further and eliminate the Worcestershire sauce as well. I don't like my beans too sweet, so you can dial down the brown sugar as you like. Alternatively, you can pile all the ingredients into a slow cooker instead of a pot in step 4, and cook on low for 8 hours.
Recipe by Kiku Corner at https://www.kikucorner.com/2014/11/20/boston-baked-beans/