Slow Cooker Baked Beans

Slow Cooker Baked Beans are a must have for your cookouts and barbecues.

If your family is anything like mine baked beans make a regular appearance on your dinner plates during the summer. There is just something about them that taste extra delicious paired with food cooked on a grill or slow smoked pulled pork or chicken.

I will admit I normally just pop open a can of store bought beans or if I am feeling fancy I make jazzed up baked beans. However, I am on a quest to find homemade versions of things I previously only liked store bought. I’ve found two already with smoky sriracha barbecue sauce and quick and easy homemade taco seasoning mix.

It took me a few months to get the recipe for slow cooker baked beans how I wanted. A lot of recipes I found used barbecue sauce which wasn’t exactly the flavor I was going for.

Then last week I perfected the recipe. Not too ketchupy, not overly sweet, and so scrumptious that I don’t know that we’ll ever go back to the canned baked beans.

You can also make these with home cooked dried beans instead of canned which is what I did. You’ll need 7 1/2 cups of cooked beans to equal the 5 15 ounce cans. I don’t mind using canned beans but I had the dried in my pantry so it saved me a trip to the store.

Cajun fried chicken, creamy jalapeno bacon potato salad, and cherry lemonade or sweet tea

This post may be linked to these fabulous blogs as well as Weekend Potluck. and meal plan Monday and Whatcha Crockin’ Wednesday