Southern Baked Beans & Ground Sausage
Pork and beans, spicy ground sausage and an easy but rich homemade sauce team up to make an unforgettably flavor-packed side dish in this hearty baked bean recipe.
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Servings: 5 people
Ingredients
- 1.5 lbs ground hot breakfast sausage
- ½ C ketchup
- ¼ C dark brown sugar
- 2 tablespoon spicy brown mustard
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- 1 (28 oz can) pork and beans, or 2 (15 oz) cans
- 1 small yellow onion, diced
- ½ bell pepper, diced
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375° Fahrenheit. Spray 3 quart casserole dish with non stick cooking spray.
- In a skillet on the stove top over medium heat, cook ½ lb hot ground sausage, browning and breaking it up into crumbles. When lightly browned and crumbled to desired size, remove from pan and set aside.
- Slice 1 lb hot ground sausage into at least 10 patties. Using the same skillet as before, very lightly brown the sausage patties, but do not cook through. This makes sure they brown with a bit of crisp edges when baking later. Let patties drain on a paper towel.
- In a large measuring cup, whisk together brown sugar, ketchup, spicy brown mustard, Worcestershire sauce and minced garlic to make the sauce for the beans. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix together pork and beans, sausage crumbles, yellow onion, and green bell pepper. Stir in sauce from the previous step and mix thoroughly but gently. Pour bean and sauce mixture into the greased casserole dish. Top with sausage patties. Press the patties gently down into the beans.
- Bake uncovered in preheated oven for 35-45 minutes. If necessary cover beans, with foil or lid around 25 minutes or so if the sausage begins to overbrown.