Slow Cooker Land Your Man Baked Beans is a hearty baked bean recipe with ground beef, bell pepper and a touch of brown sugar.
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.
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.
Equipment
- Slow Cooker- 6 quart or larger
Ingredients
- 56 oz Bush® original baked beans Two – 28 oz cans
- 1 lb. ground beef browned and drained
- 7 slices bacon cooked and sliced
- 1 green bell pepper diced
- 1 cup sweet onion diced
- 3 tbsp. brown sugar
- ¼ cup ketchup
- 2 tbsp. yellow mustard
- 1 oz taco seasoning
Optional Ingredient
- 1 tbsp. Tapitio hot sauce
Instructions
- Add everything to the slow cooker and stir well to combine.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 7 ( up to 8) hours, try not to open the lid during the cooking time.
- Serve and enjoy!
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If you love this recipe try another ground beef recipe from my archives:
- Slow Cooker John Wayne Casserole
- Slow Cooker Shipwreck Stew
- Slow Cooker Salisbury Steak
- Slow Cooker Beef and Potato Au Gratin
- Slow Cooker Hobo Dinner
- Slow Cooker Taco Meatloaf Stuffed Peppers
- Slow Cooker Texas Trash Beef and Bean Dip
- Slow Cooker Porcupine Meatballs
- Slow Cooker Lipton Onion Meatloaf
- Slow Cooker Chuck Wagon Chili
- Slow Cooker Hamburger Hash
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.
Came across this recipe and tried it. The only change I made is that after following the recipe exactly was to chop an onion and saute it in some butter and let everybody stir some into their own servings once the beans were done.
I’ve got cooking in the CP now the only change I made was no bell pepper. My plan is a cast iron skillet of corn bread to go with it.
Will let you know how it turns out