Western Style Beans Recipes

WESTERN BEANS

Steps:

• Lightly fry bacon in a heavy 3-qt. saucepan. Add onion; cook until transparent. Stir in remaining ingredients. Cook over medium heat for 45 minutes or until lentils are tender, stirring once or twice. Remove bay leaf before serving.

EASY CROCK POT COWBOY BEANS

Steps:

• Cook your bacon over medium heat on your stove until crisp, drain and crumble
• In a different skillet, brown your beef and sausage over medium heat
• Toss your onion in with your meat mixture and cook until the onions are tender, drain
• Put your meat and onion mixture and your bacon in your crock pot
• Pour your undrained pork and beans, undrained pinto or chili beans and the rest of your ingredients to your crock pot
• Give it all a gentle stir
• Cover and cook on high for an hour. After an hour reduce heat to low and cook, covered, for an additional 2-4 hours
• Give it a taste and adjust any seasonings to match your preferences

WESTERN-STYLE BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Crumble the ground beef in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir until no longer pink, 5 to 10 minutes. Drain off grease and transfer the beef to a 4 quart or larger slow cooker. Stir in the baked beans, bacon, ham, onion, chili powder, ketchup, brown sugar and molasses. If it seems thick, stir in the water. Cover and cook on High for 3 hours or cook for 6 to 8 hours on Low.

BEST EVER COWBOY BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. In a large mixing bowl, add all of the sauce ingredients and stir to combine, whisking if needed.
• Add pork and beans (undrained), tomato sauce, and diced onion and bell pepper. Using a large spoon or spatula stir to combine beans with sauce.
• Pour into casserole baking dish or cast iron skillet or dutch oven. Bake uncovered for 1 1/2 - 2 hours until bubbly and bacon is crispy. If crisper bacon is desired, with beans on middle rack, broil for 2-3 minutes until desired crispness is reached. Allow to rest for 10 minutes and serve warm.
• Baked beans can be made ahead of time, refrigerate. Remove from fridge for 1 hour prior to baking, bake as directed.
• Baked beans may be frozen, but only after they've been baked. Cool completely and transfer to freezer storage container. Beans are good up 7 days refrigerated; 6 months frozen.

OLD WEST BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Soak the beans overnight in water in a large bowl.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Saute the onions and pork over medium heat in a cast iron Dutch oven until the onions are tender, abut 10 minutes. Add the drained beans, pork, chicken stock, cayenne, molasses, ketchup, brown sugar, and salt and pepper to taste and bring to a boil.
• Cover the casserole and transfer to the oven. Bake to 3 1/2 to 4 hours, until the beans are tender.
• Serve topped with a sprinkle of brown sugar.

BAKED BEANS (WESTERN STYLE)

Steps:

• Fry bacon until crispy, allow to cool then break into pieces, add to pork & beans.
• Add all remaining ingredints to the pork & bean mixture, stir and bake for 20 minutes at 350.

WESTERN-STYLE BEEF AND BEANS

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven over medium heat, cook the beef, onions and celery until meat is no longer pink; drain. Dissolve bouillon in water; stir into beef mixture. Add the beans, ketchup, mustard, garlic, salt and pepper; mix well., Transfer to an ungreased 3-qt. baking dish. Cover and bake at 375° for 60-70 minutes or until bubbly; stir. Sprinkle with bacon.

WESTERN BEANS

Steps:

• Cook the bacon in a dutch oven until done.
• Remove the bacon from the dutch oven and reserve.
• Saute onion in the bacon drippings until tender.
• Add all the remaining ingredients, including the reserved bacon, to the dutch oven.
• Simmer for 45 minutes.
• Remove the bay leaf before serving.

THE BEST SLOW COOKER COWBOY BEANS

Steps:

• In a large skillet, brown ground beef. Drain and set aside.
• Add bacon to the skillet and cook 5 to 7 minutes or until cooked through, stirring frequently.
• Add onions and cook an additional 4 to 5 minutes or until onions are soft and translucent.
• Add ground beef and bacon mixture to a large 6 quart slow cooker.
• Add pork 'n beans, drained kidney and white beans, ketchup, brown sugar and liquid smoke.
• Stir gently to combine. Place lid on slow cooker and cook on low for 4 to 5 hours or on high 2 to 3 hours, stirring as needed. If the mixture seems a little dry, add a few tablespoons of water.
• Serve with tortillas chips, corn chips, sour cream, cheese, whatever you want. Anything goes!

WESTERN STYLE CHILI

Steps:

• Season ground beef with salt and pepper if desired. Heat large deep nonstick skillet over medium-high heat and cook ground beef, onion and green pepper until beef is browned, about 5 minutes.
• Stir in chili powder and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 30 seconds, Add water, beans and tomatoes and bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
• Stir in Knorr® Rice Sides™ - Rice Pilaf; reduce heat and simmer covered, stirring occasionally, until rice is tender, about 7 minutes. Serve, if desired, with shredded Monterey Jack, Pepper Jack or Mexican blend cheese and corn bread.

COWBOY BAKED BEANS RECIPE (OVEN OR SLOW COOKER)

Steps:

• Decide if you are going to make them in a slow cooker or bake in the oven. You can use a deep casserole dish or large pot like a dutch oven. I like a large heavy cast iron pot so I can cook in it and finish baking all in one. Slow cookers are great for parties to keep them warm for several hours.
• Chop the sliced uncooked bacon into small pieces, over medium heat, brown the bacon in a heavy cast-iron skillet or a large cast iron dutch oven on the stove top using a wooden spoon. Tip, you can cut the bacon into small pieces with clean kitchen scissors right into the pot-I find this faster!
• Remove the crispy cooked bacon to a small bowl with a slotted spoon. Don't remove the bacon drippings from the pan. Next add the chopped onion and brown for 5-6 minutes until translucent, add the minced garlic, stir for one minute.
• Next, brown the ground beef, cook for 6-8 minutes. Next, add the bacon, back in with the cooked ground beef, onion, and garlic.
• Next, add 3 cans of baked beans (don't drain), 2 cans of kidney beans (drain), 1 can of cannellini beans (drain), and 2 cans of black beans (drain).
• Add the remaining ingredients; brown sugar, cider vinegar, ketchup, and yellow mustard. Stir all the ingredients well to combine.
• Place into the slow cooker or large dutch oven or large deep casserole dish. The baked beans usually doesn't all fit in one standard 9 x 13, you need a deeper dish.
• Cook in slow cooker crockpot on low for 2 hours OR bake 350 degrees for 1 1/2 hours in a large covered dish. Serve hot.