Recipe: Perfect Cowboy beans

Cowboy beans. Place bacon, ground beef, onion, ketchup, and brown sugar in a slow cooker; mix well. Add baked beans, Great Northern beans, pinto beans, and pork and beans. These gussied-up beans, known as cowboy beans, are perfect for a big cookout, tailgating, or an everyday family meal.

Cowboy beans ingredients There are probably as many versions of cowboy beans as there are barbecue cooks. There's usually one or more varieties of beans, some smoked meat like bacon or ham, sometimes with ground beef, always with a sweet tangy barbecue sauce. These Calico beans or Cowboy Beans are not chili but can be treated like a chili would. You can cook Cowboy beans using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Cowboy beans

1. You need 1 tin of baked beans.
2. Prepare 1 tin of chopped tomatoes.
3. You need 1 tbsp of tomato purée.
4. You need 1 of onion (chopped).
5. It's 75 g of bacon lardons.
6. Prepare 100 g of mushrooms (chopped).
7. It's 2 tsp of mild chilli powder.
8. Prepare 2 cloves of garlic (minced).
9. You need 1/2 tsp of cumin (ground).
10. You need 1 tsp of oregano.
11. It's to taste of Salt and pepper.
12. It's of Grated cheese of your choice to finish.

Therefore, feel free to eat by itself or serve along with Fritos, tortilla chips, sour cream, cheddar cheese, etc. You're going to love how it's so filling and leftovers are even better the next day. This is a tradition at the table when my girlfriends and I go up north for a girls' weekend. The husbands and kids are left at home, but the slow cooker comes with us! —Julie Butsch, Hartland, Wisconsin.

Cowboy beans step by step

1. In a large saucepan add a little oil, add onion, garlic, mushrooms and bacon lardons. Gently fry for 5-10 minutes until golden..
2. Add tomato purée, beans, chopped tomatoes, cumin, oregano and chilli powder and mix well. Season well. Bring to the boil then simmer gently for 10-15 minutes..
3. Serve with your chosen accompaniment and top with grated cheese.

Cowboy Calico Beans Recipe photo by Taste of Home. My meaty recipe uses a variety of beans and has a perfect smoky taste. —Joe Sherwood, Tryon, Nebraska Your favorite bar-b-que beans may have to take a backseat once you try these cowboy beans flavored with thick-cut bacon. Add dried pinto beans to water and soak overnight. Drain and rinse the beans, then add them, along with bacon, bacon drippings, garlic, onion, chipotle, and other ingredients to a slow cooker. Then set it and walk away.