Baked Beans with Canned Beans

Baked beans in a baking dish, featuring a delightful blend of canned beans cooked to perfection in a flavorful sauce.

5 from 2 votes

These homemade baked beans with canned beans use a simple brown sugar, bacon, cognac, and bbq sauce. Perfect for family meals and cookouts without the hassle of soaking dry beans.

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 1 40

Servings

Calories 260kcal

Ingredients

16 oz bacon
1.25 cup yellow onion diced
6 garlic cloves minced
1 cup chicken broth low-sodium
4 cans cannellini beans 15.5 oz each, drained and rinsed, or another prepared small white bean
1/3 cup BBQ seasoning I'm using my bbq chicken rub recipe (click to get it)
3/4 cup BBQ sauce hickory or Kansas City style works best
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp Hennessy optional

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Add 3 slices of bacon out of the package to a large skillet over medium heat, the goal is to get some fat in the pan. After the bacon is crisp, remove it from the pan (leave the drippings), crumble and set aside.
In the same skillet with the bacon fat, add the onions and garlic cloves and sauté until translucent. Stir occasionally.
Pour chicken broth into the pan to deglaze it. Remove the pan from the heat.
Add the beans and remaining ingredients (save the remaining raw bacon to top the beans), including the crumbled bacon pieces, and stir to combine.
Transfer the beans to a baking dish, I used a 9x11 casserole dish or smaller rectangle foil pan.
Top the beans with the remaining raw bacon - I line the slices up and spread them evenly with the strips.
Bake uncovered in the oven for 90-100 minutes (or 1 hr 30 minutes to 1 hr 40 minutes). The sauce will thicken and reduce. The bacon will become very cooked and look almost burnt in some places and the liquid will turn to a more syrup-like consistency. You can start to check for doneness about the 1 hour and 15 minutes mark.

Notes

If you use a larger baking dish, this will cook faster. So, be sure to check in on your beans if you have a pan that's bigger than the one listed in the directions.

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