Ingredients

The following ingredients have 4 Servings
  • 6 slices bacon
  • 1 cup diced yellow onion
  • 1 teaspoon minced garlic
  • 1 small green or red bell pepper (diced)
  • 1 jalapeno pepper (seeded as desired and diced)
  • 56 ounces Bush's Best Original Baked Beans (undrained (2 28-ounce cans))
  • 15 ounces canned kidney beans (drained)
  • 15 ounces canned pinto beans (drained)
  • 1 cup ketchup
  • 2 tablespoons mustard
  • ⅓ cup brown sugar
  • 5 teaspoons smoked paprika
  • 1 tablespoon chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper (or to taste)
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Instruction

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  • Place a Dutch oven over MEDIUM-HIGH heat and add the bacon. Cook until browned and crisped. Transfer the bacon to paper towels to drain, allow to cool, and then crumble and set aside.
  • Drain all but about 2 tablespoons bacon grease from the pot and return it to MEDIUM heat. Add the onion, garlic, bell pepper, and jalapeno pepper and cook, stirring, until the onion and peppers are tender. Return the crumbled bacon to the Dutch oven. Mix in the canned baked beans with their liquid and the drained kidney and pinto beans. Stir in the ketchup, mustard, brown sugar, smoked paprika, chili powder, cumin, cayenne, salt, and pepper.
  • Cover the Dutch oven and bake for one hour. Stir the beans once about halfway through the cooking time.