Crock Pot Baked Beans from Scratch

Submitted by Kermit in Huntsville

"This is my receipe I have used for years. It goes together quickly and is absolutely delicious. It has never failed me and I am always asked for the receipe."

 

• Ready In: 11hrs
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 2 cups dried navy beans
• 8 cups water
• 1 large onion
• 1 lb bacon (cooked)
• 1 cup water (hot)
• 1⁄3 cup brown sugar
• 1⁄4 cup molasses
• 1 tablespoon tomato paste
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon dry mustard
• 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper

directions

1. Soak beans overnight in 8 cups water.
2. Next day drain water and add to pot with lots of water.
3. Bring to boil reduce heat and simmer 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
4. till tender.
5. Drain and rinse with hot water.
6. Place beans, onion, 1 cup hot water, cooked bacon, brown sugar, molasses,tomato paste, salt, dry mustard and pepper in a crock pot and
7. mix throrougly.
8. Simmer 10-12 hours on low setting.

Reviews

[Glenda S.]

Recipe has some problems. #1 Do not soak overnight IF you do step 2, bring to a boil and then simmer for 2 hours. If you do, it turns to mush like my first batch did. Might as well be refried baked beans. Would be best not to soak. Do the boil and simmer, then transfer to crockpot with 1 cup of the liquid you cooked it in and add other ingredients. You don't have to put all that unhealthy bacon fat in there either. Two slices is enough. I did add more tomato paste and brown sugar than the recipe called for. Maybe 20 oz of beans is more than 2 cups. I think maybe closer to 3 cups. Flavor was good, ingredients are good, just don't do both a soak and boil.

 

[Jana D.]

I love this recipe! For the bacon and onions, caramelize them both together; adds a lovely flavor.

 

[mommymakeit4u]

Took alot of planning ahead, but the end result was good! Next time I'll only be cooking it around 6 hours as the time stated would definitely dry the beans out in my slow cooker.

 

[CiaoBella]

I halved this recipe, used a 15 oz. can of navy beans in water and a 15 oz. can of white kidney beans in water. The only other changes I made were using ketchup instead of tomato paste--couldn't justify opening a can of tomato paste only to use such a small amount--and prepared honey Dijon mustard instead of the dry mustard. I fried the bacon, coarsely crumbled it and put it aside, then poured the bacon grease into a stew pot to heat the coarsely chopped onions in. Once the onions were tender, I added the rest of the ingredients. Since the beans were already pre-soaked, I heated all of the ingredients on low for two hours so all the flavors could blend and the molasses and brown sugar could thicken. Absolutely delicious, and a good source of iron!

 

[edeneve]

These beans were great, I made a few changes because of what I had: I used kidney beans, and I didn't use any bacon, and I only used about half of the sugar (because I didn't have the extra saltiness of the bacon). I had coarsly chopped the onions, I think next time I will mince them as fine as I can. These were very good and a way better alternative to the beans in the can. Thanks for this recipe!