Best 6 Yankee Baked Beans Recipes

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New England is well-known for its classic culinary creations: Boston clam chowder, Maine lobster rolls, Vermont maple syrup, and ... Yankee baked beans? That's right, this hearty, flavorful dish is a staple of the region's cuisine, and for good reason. Whether you're a born-and-bred New Englander or just a fan of good food, you'll want to try your hand at making this iconic dish. So, gather your ingredients, preheat your oven, and get ready to experience the deliciousness of Yankee baked beans.

Check out the recipes below so you can choose the best recipe for yourself!

YANKEE BEANS



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This is almost like putting an old Baked Bean recipe on hyperdrive! Superb doesn't even come close to describing the taste. The beans will be good, if you keep them covered and refrigerated, for about 3 days.

Provided by FINE2THCOMB

Categories     Side Dish     Beans and Peas

Time 8h25m

Yield 12

Number Of Ingredients 17

1 pound dried great Northern beans, soaked overnight
1 teaspoon canola oil
1 large onion, chopped
½ pound bacon, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 pinch red pepper flakes
¼ cup pure maple syrup
¼ cup tomato puree
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon mustard powder
1 ham bone with some meat
3 cups boiling water, or as needed
1 bay leaf
1 ½ tablespoons apple cider vinegar
1 dash hot pepper sauce, or to taste
salt and pepper to taste

Steps:

  • Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onions and bacon, and cook until onions are tender and golden, about 5 minutes. Add garlic, thyme and red pepper flakes to the skillet, and cook for a minute to blend flavors.
  • Place the soaked beans in a 3 1/2 quart or larger slow cooker. Stir in the onion and bacon mixture, maple syrup, tomato puree, Worcestershire sauce, and mustard powder. Bury the ham bone in the beans, and fill the slow cooker with enough hot water to cover the beans. Add bay leaves to the top.
  • Cover and cook for 5 hours on High, or 10 to 11 hours on Low. Remove bay leaves, and season with vinegar, hot sauce, salt and pepper before serving.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 225.3 calories, Carbohydrate 25.6 g, Cholesterol 12.9 mg, Fat 9.6 g, Fiber 6.5 g, Protein 10 g, SaturatedFat 3 g, Sodium 211.5 mg, Sugar 5 g

PERFECTLY BAKED BEANS



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Provided by Ree Drummond : Food Network

Categories     side-dish

Time 2h30m

Yield 18 servings

Number Of Ingredients 13

4 slices regular bacon, diced
1 medium onion, cut into small dice
1 medium green bell pepper, cut into small dice
1 red bell pepper, cut into small dice
1 fresh jalapeno, chopped
4 large cans (28 ounces each) pork and beans
1 cup barbecue sauce
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup distilled or cider vinegar
2 tablespoons ketchup
1 tablespoon yellow mustard
2 chipotle peppers, minced
6 slices thin bacon

Steps:

  • Adjust the oven rack to the lower-middle position and preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
  • Fry the regular chopped bacon in a large, deep skillet until the bacon has partially cooked and released about 1/4 cup drippings. Add the onions, peppers and jalapenos, and saute until tender, about 5 minutes. Add the beans, barbecue sauce, brown sugar, vinegar, ketchup, mustard and chipotles, and bring to a simmer. (If the skillet is not large enough, add the beans and heat to a simmer and then transfer to a large bowl and stir in the remaining ingredients). Pour the flavored beans into an aluminum pan. Top with the uncooked slices of bacon (you can halve the slices if you like). Then bake until the beans are bubbly and the sauce is the consistency of pancake syrup, about 2 hours. Let stand to thicken slightly and serve.

EASY BAKED BEANS



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Provided by Trisha Yearwood

Categories     side-dish

Time 1h20m

Yield 10 servings

Number Of Ingredients 6

1 pound bacon
1 large sweet onion, such as Vidalia, finely chopped
Four 14-ounce cans pork and beans
1/2 cup dark molasses
1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
2 tablespoons prepared yellow mustard

Steps:

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  • Fry the bacon in a large skillet over medium-high heat until crisp. Remove the bacon from the pan, leaving the drippings, and drain it on paper towels. Crumble and set aside.
  • Add the onion to the pan with the bacon drippings and saute until softened, a couple minutes. Stir in the beans, molasses, brown sugar, mustard and crumbled bacon, and mix well.
  • Pour the beans into a 3-quart casserole and bake, uncovered, for about 45 minutes.

HOMEMADE BAKED BEANS



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A quicker version of homemade baked beans using canned Northern beans.

Provided by mariap430

Categories     Side Dish     Beans and Peas     Baked Bean Recipes

Time 1h10m

Yield 8

Number Of Ingredients 11

½ pound bacon
2 (14.5 ounce) cans Great Northern beans, rinsed and drained
1 cup water
¾ cup packed brown sugar
2 small onions, chopped
3 tablespoons ketchup
3 tablespoons molasses
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 tablespoon mustard
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon garlic powder

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 2 1/2-quart baking dish.
  • Place bacon in a large skillet and cook over medium-high heat until crisp, about 10 minutes; drain and cool on paper towels. Crumble bacon once cooled.
  • Mix bacon, beans, water, brown sugar, onions, ketchup, molasses, vinegar, mustard, salt, and garlic powder together in the prepared baking dish. Cover dish with aluminum foil.
  • Bake in preheated oven until bubbling, 45 minutes.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 360.7 calories, Carbohydrate 50.8 g, Cholesterol 19.3 mg, Fat 13.3 g, Fiber 5.4 g, Protein 11.2 g, SaturatedFat 4.4 g, Sodium 625.9 mg, Sugar 26.3 g

BAKED BEANS TRADITIONAL BEAN-HOLE BEANS



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Authentic lumbermen's Bean-Hole Beans, baked overnight in the ground. This recipe is the real deal and was traditionally served with biscuits, colesalaw, molasses cookies/gingerbread. From our local Patten Lumberman's Museum where every second Saturday in August they serve hundreds.

Provided by Aroostook

Categories     One Dish Meal

Time 19h

Yield 8 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 8

2 lbs of yellow eye beans
1 teaspoon dry mustard or 1 teaspoon prepared mustard
1/2 cup molasses
1/2-1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup water
1 large onion, cut in half
1 lb salt pork (sliced)
boiling water, enough to cover

Steps:

  • Soak 2 pounds of yellow-eye beans overnight.
  • Parboil beans until the skin peels away by blowing on a few beans in a spoon.
  • Add the mix to the beans and stir slightly.
  • Slice 1 pound salt pork into sections.
  • Cut each section partly through in a criss-cross pattern and place pieces on top of the beans.
  • Cover the beans and set to one side.
  • The bean hole should be dug into the ground and be half again as large as your dutch oven or any other tightly lidded pot.
  • Using seasoned hard wood, accumulate live coals until hole is 3/4 full.
  • Shovel out the coals leaving about 3 inches of live coals in the bottom of the hole.
  • Set the bean pot in the hole on top of the 3 inch bed of coals.
  • Shovel the rest of the coals around and on top of the pot.
  • Cover with dirt and check for escaping steam and making sure none is leaking out.
  • If steam is leaking out, cover area with more dirt.
  • Leave in the ground for 8 hours or overnight.
  • Note: Make sure the beans are completely covered with hot water before putting in ground.
  • The beans need to go into the ground hot.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 495.4, Fat 45.8, SaturatedFat 16.7, Cholesterol 48.8, Sodium 962.1, Carbohydrate 17.8, Fiber 0.3, Sugar 12.5, Protein 3.1

BAKED BEANS



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Proper Boston baked beans would have salt pork instead of the bacon. James Beard cooked them with ribs. The key is to use the little white pea beans known as navy beans, and to allow time to do most of the work. (Or to cheat: Canned white beans make fantastic baked beans in about an hour. If you use them, you'll need four 15-ounce cans. Drain and then follow the directions from step 2 on to the end. Please understand that you'll need much less water and much less time to get them where you want them to be.) The combination of molasses and dry mustard is a taste as old as America itself, and takes well to both ham and soft brown bread.

Provided by Sam Sifton

Categories     dinner, lunch, side dish

Time 6h30m

Yield 6 to 8 servings

Number Of Ingredients 7

2 cups navy beans
Salt
1/2 pound slab bacon, cut into cubes
1 medium onion, peeled and chopped
1/3 cup molasses
2 teaspoons dry mustard
1 teaspoon ground black pepper

Steps:

  • Soak beans in a large bowl of water for 6 hours or overnight. Drain beans and put them in a large oven-safe pot with a heavy bottom and a tightfitting lid. Add 1 teaspoon salt and enough cool water to cover 2 inches above the beans. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer gently, stirring occasionally, until the beans are just tender, approximately 30 to 40 minutes. Drain and remove beans.
  • Heat the oven to 250 degrees. Bring a kettle full of water to a boil on the stove. Return the heavy-bottomed pot to the stove and turn the heat to medium high. Cook the bacon in the bottom of the pot until it begins to brown, then turn off the heat and add the chopped onion and, on top of it, the beans. Mix together molasses, mustard and black pepper, and add the mixture to the pot. Pour in enough boiling water to cover beans, put the lid on and bake, occasionally adding more water to keep beans covered, until they are tender but not falling apart, 4 to 5 hours.
  • Remove beans from oven, uncover, stir and season with salt. With the lid off, return pot to oven and let beans finish cooking, uncovered and without additional water, until the sauce has thickened and the top is deeply crusty, about 45 minutes more.

Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 343, UnsaturatedFat 7 grams, Carbohydrate 44 grams, Fat 12 grams, Fiber 8 grams, Protein 16 grams, SaturatedFat 4 grams, Sodium 253 milligrams, Sugar 13 grams, TransFat 0 grams

Tips:

  • Use dried beans: Dried beans are more flavorful and economical than canned beans.
  • Soak the beans overnight: Soaking the beans overnight helps to soften them and reduce cooking time.
  • Use a variety of beans: Different types of beans have different flavors and textures. Try using a mix of beans for a more interesting dish.
  • Add flavorings: Add flavorings such as bacon, onions, garlic, and spices to the beans while they are cooking.
  • Cook the beans slowly: Beans should be cooked slowly over low heat to prevent them from becoming tough.
  • Serve the beans with a variety of sides: Yankee baked beans can be served with a variety of sides, such as cornbread, mashed potatoes, or coleslaw.

Conclusion:

Yankee baked beans are a classic American dish that is easy to make and always a crowd-pleaser. With a few simple tips, you can make the best Yankee baked beans that will have your family and friends asking for more. So next time you are looking for a hearty and flavorful dish, give Yankee baked beans a try.

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