Get Your Grill On

Baked Beans

Posted by Paul Brown
July 29, 2008

One of my favorite side dishes to go with barbeque is baked beans. To create the ultimate beans you need to bake them in a low oven for hours. When the temperature is leaning to the upper end of the scale you probably do not want to run an oven. I have a Mad Meat Genius solution. Bake your beans outdoors in a portable oven. It is the perfect solution. This is a small oven with two burners that runs on propane. Today, I am baking some beans that are swimming in a bath of tomatoes, onions, bacon,sugar, molasses and spices.

Chilebrown’s Ultimate Bake Beans

1 pound of navy beans

4 tomatoes chopped fine

1 onion chopped fine

1/4 cup molasses

1/4 cup of brown sugar

1 tablespoon of salt

5 cups of water

2 slices of thick bacon chopped into cubes

1 tablespoon of chile powder

1 tablespoon of ground mustard

Combine all ingredients together in a cast iron pot except salt. Cover with lid. Bake at 300 degrees for 4 hours or until beans begin to soften. Add salt and remove lid. Bake until beans are nice and thick with sauce.

I have fired up the Smokenator 1000 to smoke some ribs. They will be the perfect accompaniment to some baked beans. A green salad with some vine ripe tomatoes is in order. We will enjoy a nice meal without heating up the house.