Easy Dutch Oven Baked Beans

These baked beans are so tasty, quick and easy to make, and make great leftovers (but you probably won’t have leftovers since they taste so good!). If you are new to using your dutch oven, this is a great recipe to start with.

Ingredients:

1 pound of bacon

4 cans of pork and beans

1 tablespoon of mustard

1/4 cup tomato sauce

1 chopped onion

1/2 cup brown sugar

3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

Cut bacon into 1- to 2-inch pieces. Heat the dutch oven and then cook the bacon in the dutch oven. When finished, drain the oil. Add pork and beans, mustard, ketchup, minced onion, brown sugar, and Worcestershire sauce. Cover and cook over coals until heated through and bubbling, about 30 minutes.

The only real preparation that goes into these is cutting up the bacon and chopping the onion, so this dish is great for camping. You could make things even easier by cooking the bacon and chopping the onion at home and then putting everything together at camp.

These are a great side dish for hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken, just about any camp food. You can also make them at home, either with your dutch oven or using another baking dish. Precook bacon and freeze and hold cans of pork and beans and you’ll have a dish you can whip up whenever you need something quick and easy. You can make more easily by doubling or tripling the recipe, which makes it a great side dish when you have something to bring to a family potluck, church, or the neighborhood.