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June 25, 2007
Stove Top "Baked" Beans
Baked beans...Another one of those Southern cook out foods! Traditionally in most cases baked beans are made with canned pork and beans and baked in the oven, thus giving them their name, but given I didn't have any of those so I decided to give it a whirl with soaked pinto beans instead and since they had cooked on the stovetop, I decided to just finish them up there too instead of having to heat up the stove and thus heat up the house. They turned out perfectly!
Baked beans most definitely made me think of childhood summers at the lake, where we'd grill hamburgers and hotdogs, have potato salad and baked beans, along with hand cranked homemade ice cream. I really miss the lake.
What You'll Need:
2 1/2 cups of raw pinto beans, rinsed (Note: Rinse and soak beans over night or do the "fast" soak method by covering beans with hot water and boiling for 2 minutes. Then remove beans from heat and let sit for 1 hour before cooking.)
1/2 a Vidalia onion, chopped
1/2 cup of natural brown sugar
1/4 cup of honey
A pinch of salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup of organic ketchup
1/4 cup of yellow mustard
Cook pinto beans according to package direction until tender. (Note: see instructions above in terms of soaking the beans.) Stir in remaining ingredients and bring to a boil. Lower heat and cook covered over low heat for at least 1 hour until mixture thickens slightly. The longer you cook them the more the flavors meld.
Pinto beans can be served warm, or cold. Both ways are delicious! I usually serve them warm the day I make them and then eat any leftovers cold right of the fridge.
Notes: If you have a sweet barbeque sauce made up you can use that in place of the ketchup, brown, sugar and honey. You can also bake them in the oven for an hour at 375 F instead of on the stove top, but on a hot summer day who wants to heat up the stove? A friend of mine adds ground beef to her baked beans and another adds bacon. I like bacon and do that from time to time, but the point is you can add what you like. :o)
Posted by Dianne at June 25, 2007 1:24 PM
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