Cowboy Beans Recipe

🧂 Ingredients

• ½ pound bacon

  chopped
• 1 medium onion

  chopped
• 2 jalapeno peppers

  chopped (or use a bell pepper for a milder version)
• 4 cloves garlic

  chopped
• 1 pound ground beef

  80-20
• ¼ cup bbq sauce

  use your favorite
• ¼ cup ketchup
• 2 tablespoons spicy brown mustard
• 2 tablespoon molasses
• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 2 16 ounce cans kidney beans (drained)
• 1 16 ounce can butter beans (drained)
• 1 16 ounce can pork and beans
• Hot sauce to taste
• FOR SERVING: Shredded cheese

  if desired

Instructions

• 1 Heat a large pan or pot to medium heat. A Dutch oven is good for this.
• 2 Cook the bacon in the pan about 5 minutes, or until it becomes nice and crispy.
  Remove and drain on a paper towel. Remove any excess grease.
• 3 Next, add the chopped onion and peppers. Cook them down 5 minutes to soften.
• 4 Add the ground beef and break it apart with a wooden spoon. Cook it down about 5
  minutes to brown it all over, stirring.
• 5 Stir in the garlic and cook another minute, until you can smell that gorgeous
  garlic.
• 6 Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
• 7 Stir the bbq sauce, ketchup, mustard, molasses, vinegar, brown sugar, chili
  powder, and salt and pepper into the mix.
• 8 Stir in all of the beans and reserved bacon. If you’d like a kicked up version,
  stir in some hot sauce as well.
• 9 Set it into the oven and bake for 1 hour.
• 10 Remove from heat. Top with cheese, if desired, or enjoy it as it! Serve with
  extra hot sauce!

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