Slow Cooker Root Beer Baked beans are flavored with root beer and also a touch of molasses. Great for barbecues and potlucks.
Hello! I have a new recipe for you today that I couldn’t wait to share with you. You may think a recipe flavored with root beer would be overly sweet, but this is not. The pork and beans aren’t sweet to begin with and you will see that I did not add brown sugar to this. The beans are just a hint sweet with flavors of the root beer, barbecue sauce and molasses. If you try these beans you will be pleasantly surprised how well all the flavors taste. My husband took just these for lunch the next day, he loved them!
Look at the color of these beans, the beans are great for a summer get together, but I also think the beans are great for fall too.
There are many ways to make baked beans, I love to try new recipes. If you have a favorite you love, please let me know! I hope you have a great weekend. I’ll be back next week with 2 new recipes.
- 56 oz. pork and beans (2 28-oz. cans)
- 1 small white onion, diced
- 2 Tbsp. mustard
- 2 Tbsp. molasses
- 1 cup root beer
- 1/2 cup barbecue sauce
- 8 slices bacon, sliced, cooked and drained
- 5 quart or larger
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Add everything except the bacon to the slow cooker, stir. Sprinkle over the bacon on top of the beans.
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Cover and cook on LOW for 5 hours without opening the lid during the cooking time.
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Stir, serve and enjoy!
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Nutritional values are approximate. Please use your own calculation if you require a special diet. The values below are for 1/10 of the recipe.
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The “baked” beans sound delicious. Do you have any suggestions for making them less salty? Maybe a recipe for slow cooking the beans myself instead of using canned?
Use other bean, like pintos, cannelli, or black beans. There you have control.
What BBQ sauce do you recommend?
For this recipe I used barbecue Pete’s fair sauce. It’s in a glass bottle. I found it at Fred Meyer (Kroger)
Can you use a different soda other than root beer?
Yes, dr. pepper or cola would work great too.
Do you have a recipe for home made beans. From scratch.
I do not, sorry!