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Maple-Sausage Baked Beans
Melissa Hart

Maple-Sausage Baked Beans

Beans and smoked sausage make this substantial enough to count as dinner, not just a cookout side. Maple syrup stays in the background behind mustard, tomato and smoke. Drain the beans well or the sauce never reaches that sticky, spoon-coating stage.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 6 hours
Total Time 6 hours 15 minutes
Servings: 8
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 14 oz smoked kielbasa cut into 1/2-inch rounds
  • 3 cans 15 oz each navy beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1 can 15 oz red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1 medium yellow onion diced
  • 1/2 cup ketchup
  • 1/3 cup pure maple syrup
  • 1/4 cup unsulphured molasses
  • 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 2 tbsp yellow mustard
  • 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 tsp smoked paprika
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper

Method
 

  1. Brown the kielbasa rounds in a skillet over medium-high heat until their cut sides color, 5 to 6 minutes.
  2. Add the kielbasa, navy beans, kidney beans and onion to a 5- or 6-quart slow cooker.
  3. Whisk the ketchup, maple syrup, molasses, vinegar, mustard, Worcestershire, paprika and pepper until smooth.
  4. Pour the sauce over the beans and fold gently until everything is coated.
  5. Cover and cook on low for 5 to 6 hours until the onion is tender and the sauce is dark and thick.
  6. Uncover and cook on high for 15 minutes if the sauce still runs quickly from a spoon, then stir before serving.