Slow Cooker Cowboy Beans

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 1/2 lbs lean ground beef
• 5 strips bacon

  chopped
• 3 small white onions

  diced
• 3 15 oz cans dark red kidney beans

  drained & rinsed
• 2 15 oz cans great northern beans

  drained & rinsed
• 2 15 oz cans lima/butter beans

  drained & rinsed
• 1 53 oz can pork and beans

  NOT drained
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 2 tbsp vinegar
• 2 tsp yellow mustard
• salt & pepper

  to taste

Instructions

• 1 Add the bacon to a large non-stick skillet, and fry until crispy- stirring as
  needed.
• 2 Add the ground beef & diced onion to the skillet. Cook until the ground beef is
  browning, breaking/crumbling up as it cooks.
• 3 Drain the mixture of any excess grease, and add the prepared beef mixture to the
  bowl of your slow cooker.
• 4 Pour the (undrained) pork & beans into the bowl of your slow cooker, then add
  the other beans that have all been drained & rinsed.
• 5 In a separate mixing bowl, whisk together the sugars, ketchup, vinegar, &
  mustard until smooth. Stir this into the beef and bean mixture until evenly
  incorporated.
• 6 Season with salt & pepper, to taste.
• 7 Cover and cook the beans on low for 4-5 hours.
• 8 Stir, serve, & enjoy!

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