My Secret to 5 Minute Baked Beans
Who doesn't love baked beans in all their rich, gooyness? Baked beans are the perfect crowd pleaser side dish for Summer. Just about everyone has their own special recipe. However, the one drawback with baked beans is that you have to bake them. You know, heat up the house on a hot summer's day and wait for an hour, or two or even three until those beans are the right consistency of rich gooyness. Or do you?
My husband loves baked beans and he loves to have them on weeknights where dinner prep time is limited at our house. I simply don't have hours to wait for beans to bake, nor do I want to use the oven on hot days. Here's what I do instead:
Take my favorite precooked beans (could be the ones you cook up ahead of time and store in the freezer, or any variety of canned beans work just as well)
Empty the beans and liquid into a non stick saucepan (If you don't use a non stick pan, just grease your pan well). Add all of your favorite seasonings and any other ingredients such as chopped onions, ham, bacon and the like. Note, it's best if the bacon is precooked. Then I turn the heat up on high and cook and stir and cook and stir until most of the liquid is evaporated.
Voila! Now you've got "baked" beans that taste like they've baked all day.
This post is linked to WFMW.
This is a great tip! We love baked beans. I try to keep some baked beans in the freezer for nights that we need a quick meal. But this is a wonderful way to prepare them if you don't have any in the freezer!
Another great way to prepare baked beans is in the crockpot. Not so fast, but you don't have to heat the oven or the house!
I have 2 baked bean recipes on my blog. www.my-vintage-kitchen.blogspot.com
I call these stovetop baked beans. It sure is a handy way to have baked beans quick.
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