Smoked Baked Beans Recipe is a wonderfully indulgent way to impress your guests with some delicious homemade smoked baked beans!
Best Ever Smoked Baked Beans Recipe
The perfect addition to any meal!! These beans are packed with so much flavor and are so easy to make. They pair perfectly with smoked pork loin, smoked pork chops, smoked potatoes … the list goes on!!
Why You Will Love This Recipe
- Smokey Flavor: I mean, that’s probably what brought you here! That smokey flavor is SO good!
- Big Batch:This makes a nice big batch for your summer cookouts! Plenty to go around!
- Cookout-Friendly: Already got something on the smoker? Easy – just add this to round out your meal!
What You Will Need
- Thick-cut bacon: feel free to grab on that is already smokey too for extra flavor!
- Green Pepper + Yellow Onion: add delicious flavor
- Garlic: because you always gotta throw a little in!
- Pork + Beans: the base of the recipe! Buying the pre-made version take A LOT less time!
- BBQ Sauce: Grab your favorite kind!
- Coconut Sugar: you can also use brown sugar
- Apple cider vinegar: that acid rounds out of the flavor
- Yellow Mustard + Stone ground mustard: the acidity in this also helps round out the flavor
- Smoked Garlic Powder: more garlic and more smokiness!
What to Serve With Smoked Baked Beans
How to Make Smoked Baked Beans
Cook your bacon in a large cast iron skillet just long enough to let the fat render a bit.
Remove the bacon and set aside for later. Leave some grease in the pan and cook your garlic, onion and green pepper right in it!
Combine onion mixture with your cans of pork and beans. Cut up 3 slices of bacon into large chunks and stir those in as well.
Add in the rest of your ingredients.
Place your bacon on top.
Place on the smoker.
Let smoke for a couple hours and then serve!
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Smoked Baked Beans Recipe
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 3 hours
- Total Time: 3 hours 25 minutes
- Yield: 14 servings 1x
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: Smoker
- Cuisine: American
Description
Smoked Baked Beans – the perfect side dish for your summer cookouts!
Ingredients
- 7–9 slices of thick-cut bacon
- 1/2 green pepper, diced
- 1 small/medium yellow onion, diced
- 2 teaspoons garlic, minced
- (3) 15oz cans pork and beans
- 1/4 cup of your favorite BBQ sauce (I would recommend a smoky-flavored one)
- 1/4 cup coconut sugar
- 3 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 cup yellow mustard
- 1 tablespoon stone ground mustard
- 1 teaspoon smoked garlic powder, regular garlic powder works just fine
Instructions
- Preheat smoker between 215-225 degrees F.
- In a deep, 12 inch cast iron skillet, cook bacon in batches on the stove top, cooking until some fat has rendered and bacon is partially cooked. Remove bacon and let rest on a paper towel-lined plate.
- Keep grease in pan, unless there are excessive amounts. If there is a ton of grease, pour some out, but keep 2-4 tablespoons in the pan.
- Add garlic, onion and green pepper to the pan. Saute in grease on medium-high, stirring, until cooked down and onion becomes translucent.
- Take 3 slices of bacon and cut into 1-inch chunks.
- Add those chunks of bacon back into the pan along with the beans, BBQ sauce, coconut sugar, apple cider vinegar, yellow mustard, stone ground mustard and garlic powder. Stir to combine. Lay remaining bacon strip across the top of the skillet and place on the smoker.
- Place skillet on the smoker for 3-4 hours.
- Remove and let cool slightly. Cut the top bacon strips into chunks and mix into the beans.
- Serve and enjoy.
Notes
- Smoking temp: honestly if you have another recipe going (like this smoked pork shoulder or smoked baby back ribs) the temperature for these beans is pretty flexible. It can really go anywhere between 215 and 275 degrees F. The resulting flavor will be more smokey if the temp is closer to 215 degrees F., but if you are timing this out with other recipes don’t get too hung up on the temp!
- Aluminum Pan: you can also just use an aluminum pan if you don’t want to use a cast iron skillet.
- Gluten-Free: double check pork and beans ingredients before using.
Stefanie T says
I’ve made this recipe twice now. It is easy, simple, and delicious!! This is a great recipe to feed a crowd. I put the beans in a cast iron skillet next to St Louis ribs on my Traeger for 4 hrs. Love it!! Thank you Erin for a great recipe.
Gary Shogren says
Looks great, will try it with family this weekend. What size can? 15 or 28oz? I think with all the extra ingredients, 3 small cans at 3.5 servings would work out to 14 total servings, but I’m not sure. Also, you got an “oven at 325 for 2-3 hours” step that I don’t think belongs.
Thanks for the recipe!
Erin says
Oh my goodness, sorry about that, Gary! Recipe card has been updated!
TammyRenea @SanPasqualsKitchen says
Where’s my spoon!!! These pictures are amazing, scrumptious, all good things! This is my first time to your blog but I will be returning for sure. 😀
Erin says
Thank you so much, Tammy! Thanks for stopping by and the feedback/words of encouragement 🙂