These bacon-filled and smoker cooked baked beans are THE Ultimate Smoky Baked Beans for your all of summer barbecues! Smoked Baked Beans never tasted so good!
Since having Lars, I went back to work as a physical therapist two days a week after my maternity leave. We’ve been really fortunate so far that we haven’t had to send him to daycare because on one of the days I work Marc stays home with him and on the other, Marc’s mom usually watches him.
The deal on the day that I work and Marc is home with Lars is that Marc is in charge of dinner. I don’t care if we get takeout, eat boxed mac and cheese, or have popcorn for dinner, I just don’t want to have to think about cooking.
Our go-to sides are usually cornbread and baked beans and while I don’t mind cornbread from a box, the cans of baked beans leave a LOT to be desired, in my opinion. So, I went on a mission to make an amazing smoked baked beans recipe.
Mission: completed, because these smoked baked beans are IT! They have absolutely everything we could want in our baked beans. They are, most importantly SMOKY. I hate when baked beans are just super sweet and don’t have much else going on. These baked beans are not only smoky from a decent amount of bacon and the bacon grease sauteed veggies (oh yes I did.) but we also made them in the smoker.
But! Don’t go running away if you don’t have a smoker, because I promise these will still be super delicious baked in the oven and included directions for the oven. Pinkie promise.
This recipe starts with the bacon-fat sauteed veggies and to that you add a couple cans of baked beans, some tomato sauce, Worcestershire (a must!), mustard powder (another must!) and a secret ingredient – crushed pineapple. We all loved the little chunks of pineapple throughout these beans! The jalapeno gives the beans a tiny bit of spice but if you like a lot of spice – go ahead and add two.
This recipe makes a lot of beans which make for great leftovers (baked bean sandwiches, anyone? Anyone?) but you could easily halve the recipe if you want to scale it down! My advice? Plan a backyard barbecue JUST for an excuse to make these beans…they will be a hit!
These.beans.are.amazing.