Hearty and Delicious Cowboy Beans

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 medium yellow onion

  diced (approximately 1 cup)
• 1 green bell pepper

  diced (approximately 1 cup)
• ½ teaspoon garlic salt
• ½ teaspoon onion powder
• 8 slices bacon

  cooked and crumbled
• ¼ cup brown sugar

  this is optional – you could omit
• 2 cans

  28 ounces each baked beans, we used Bush’s Original Baked Beans
• ½ cup barbecue sauce
• 2 tablespoons dijon mustard

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 350°F.
• 2 In a 4 quart, heavy bottom, oven-safe pot (like a Dutch oven) over medium heat,
  add ground beef, onion, bell pepper, garlic salt, and onion powder. Cook until
  the hamburger is no longer pink. Drain the excess liquid.
• 3 Add cooked bacon crumbles, brown sugar, baked beans, barbecue sauce, and dijon
  mustard. Stir to incorporate all ingredients.
• 4 Cover and bake for 1 hour. (When done, the beans should be hot and bubbly and
  thickened.) Serve warm.

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