Slow Cooker Land Your Man Baked Beans is the Vintage recipe of the month!
I found this recipe over at Just a Pinch recipes and had to try it out in my slow cooker. Such a cute story about this recipe over at Just a Pinch. I don’t need a man or ever want to land a new one, even so these beans are sure worth trying. Another funny recipe name that’s similar is blueberry boy bait, that looks like a good recipe too.
Pretty simple ingredients go into these beans. Basically the recipe is doctoring up canned baked beans, which is fine to me because I love the texture and flavor of canned baked beans but they need a few things added to make them great. Below is what the recipe looks like before cooking:
And here is after:
I’m sure I will get a few remarks on social media about why I would cook canned beans even longer. As you can see in the 2 above photos the beans look thicker and have so much flavor after cooking together with the other ingredients. They still have great texture and held up their shape after 7 hours of cooking.
The hot sauce is optional, I used 1 tablespoon of our favorite hot sauce Tapatio and it made these beans have quite the kick, which my husband and I don’t mind. Leave out the hot sauce and make sure to buy mild taco seasoning if you don’t like spicy foods.
You can see my YouTube video of this meal below. You can follow me on YouTube here if you want to see more videos like this one.
This meal can be served as a side dish or is hearty enough to be a main dish with a side of cornbread.
Have a great week. I’m excited to share more summer recipes like this one and will be sharing those in the coming up months! I hope you have a great week.
- 2 (28-oz.) cans Bush® original baked beans
- 1 lb. ground beef, browned and drained
- 7 slices bacon, cooked and sliced
- 1 green bell pepper, diced
- 1 medium sweet onion, diced
- 3 Tbsp. brown sugar
- ¼ cup ketchup
- 2 Tbsp. mustard
- 1 (1-oz.) pkg. taco seasoning
- 1 Tbsp. Tapitio hot sauce <<< leave this out if you want mild beans
- 6-quart or larger
- Add everything to the slow cooker. Stir.
- Cover and cook on low for 7-8 hours, try not to open the lid during the cooking time.
- Serve and enjoy!
I used my 6-quart Crock-Pot® for this meal. Though any slow cooker 5-quarts or larger will do fine.
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My mother made blueberry boy bait a lot when I was growing up – it is delicious! Basically a big blueberry muffin. My dad was always pretty pumped when he found out we would be having it at dinner.
Love the recipe, I did though make some substitutions
I used real maple syrup instead of brown sugar
Spicy stone ground mustard
I also cut the ketchup in have and used Thai chili sauce for the other half
Family went crazy for it
Hi Ron, I love what you did with the recipe, it sounds spicy and delicious.
This recipe is the same like my grandmother was making. I can`t wait to make it for my nephew.
I made the baked beans and it turned out awesome… everyone loved it
That’s so nice to hear! We really loved the recipe too!
I’m new to this awesome site…I can’t wait to try all these wonderful, slow cooker/crock pot recipes. I love my crock pot. 🙂
Hi Brenda! You came to the right place!
I am preparing this recipe for dinner tonight. The beans smell amazing and I know my husband will love my selection for dinner. We cheated and already tasted the beans before they simmer all day. Oh my, delicious! Thank you, Sarah Olson.
If I’m short on time to make this delicious recipe. Can I cook on high for 3-4 hrs? ☺️
Yes! Should be fine!
This looks delicious! My husband actually probably wouldn’t care for it, it’s too similar to chili for him to consider it baked beans and it’s too similar to baked beans for him to consider it chili. He’s a difficult guy sometimes XD
If I make half the recipe, do I cut time in half????
I’d say about 5 on low would work fine.
Made this and DH thought he had died and went to Heaven cuz it was that delicious. Now he wants me to make it all the time. I’ve created a monster Do you have any idea how to do this recipe in the Instant pot??
I’d love to make this in my new IP!
Sarah, this was delicious! My husband of 50 years agrees & had seconds. I knew he’d love it! Thank you so much for the recipe. I’ll be sure to try some of your other recipes.