HICKORY BAKED BEANS

Hickory Baked Beans for more fiber and nutrition for our money. It’s great for picnic or taking to a dinner or picnic. It can be served with corn bread muffins or whole-wheat crackers. Yum! Yes, you can add meat, ham or ham hocks, bacon to flavor or leave out. Try to cut down on meat and add in spices and vegetables (herbs) for the best flavors. Try just adding in some olive oil instead of the meat you'll be surprised. I actually don't care for the meat because it has enough a hickory flavor without it. (Freeze leftover beans or cut back on the recipe for smaller amounts) Their reasons to sell your birth right for legume's if you know their health secrets. Eat beans (1/4 cup) three times a week for a healthy body. Find many good recipes to vary the tastes and style of your family.
2 lbs great northern dried beans
2 tbsp minced onion (Or more)
4 tsp salt
1 cup of catsup (or such, to give a rich red color.)
1 Can of smaller chunk ed pineapple (If you don’t like chunk add the crushed for the sweet flavor)
1/2-cup Hunt's BBQ hickory barbecue sauce (about) (or, just use hickory-smoked flavor then add in more catsup. Adjust the sweetness to taste by the catsup, barbecue sauce and pineapple and/or molasses i.e., see below, the barbecue sauce is just a tasty shortcut)
4 tsp dry mustard
3 tbsp vinegar (add to a faster cooking time and softens the beans)
Lg. can chicken broth (this is optional vegetable broth works great too) or water.
This can be topped with 1 lb. bacon. (Vegan bacon or vegetarian bacon bits. (Optional)
Bring an 8 qt. pot of water to a boil. Turn off heat then add dried beans. Let soak at least 8 hours.
Sauté onion, mix salt, catsup, pineapple, barbecue sauce, mustard, and broth to the beans then, and pour into oven-safe pot. You want a narrow pot so that the liquid doesn't evaporate so quickly.
Bake at about 200 to 250 (depending on your oven) for at least 2 hours. Mix occasionally.
They are ready for the next stage when you sample a bean and it can be easily chewed.
Spread beans in a baking pan and arrange raw bacon slices on top, or the vegan style.
Bake at 300 degrees until the bacon is crisp.
This can be done in a crock-pot too, but fry and crumble the bacon and the top lastly. Or, leave the bacon out.
I like this as "salad beans" cold. Eye ball the recipe if this is too much...since my families gone I generally do for a quick variation. Or if this recipe is cooked on top of the stove in a big pot add the catsup and barbecue sauce in after the beans are pretty well cook, reduced its liquids and stir or it will scorch.
This recipe can be “canned” or any type of bean such as black, yellow eye, great northern, soldier, navy, white beans, i.e. Another brand other than Hunt’s can be used but watch for MSG, or Corn syrups with will defeat any healthy purpose of eating.
Sub: 6 tbs molasses or brown sugar or about 1/4-cup maple syrup for pineapple as a natural sweetener. Or if you want it a little more spice add in a few dashes of hot sauce (Tabasco smoked chipotle in the brew.)
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