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Easy Baked Beans and Smoked Sausage

We had one of those odd cool days the other day. Not too cool, but enough to put me in nesting mode. And that means stick-to-your-ribs food for dinner. So I threw together something super simple – easy baked beans and smoked sausage with a little corn bread on the side. I wasn’t going for fru-fru fancy stuff. I just wanted something to fill me up and warm me to the bone. This was it.

Easy Baked Beans and Smoked Sausage

The Perfect Cold Weather Dish

I’ll be making this again this fall. As much as I hate to kiss summer goodbye, I sure love those fall meals. Easy baked beans and smoked sausage not only fills you up, it’ll keep you warm on those cool fall days for sure.

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Also try my easy-to-make cowboy beans.

Easy Baked Beans and Smoked Sausage
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Easy Baked Beans and Smoked Sausage

We had one of those odd cool days the other day. Not too cool, but enough to put me in nesting mode. And that means stick-to-your-ribs food for dinner. So I threw together something super simple – easy baked beans and smoked sausage with a little corn bread on the side.
Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Keyword baked beans, easy, sausage, smoked
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings 6
Calories 424kcal
Author Mike

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 1 pound smoked sausage kielbasa works fine too, cut into 1/2″ thick coins
  • ½ medium white onion chopped
  • ½ green bell pepper chopped
  • 1 jalapeno peppers diced
  • 1 55 ounce baked beans
  • 1 8 ounce pineapple chunks drained
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup ketchup plus more
  • 1 tablespoon dry mustard

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 F.
  • Lightly brown the sausage in a Dutch oven or large skillet. Remove
  • Saute the onion, bell pepper and jalapeno pepper until tender.
  • Combine the beans, pineapple, brown sugar, ketchup and dry mustard in a large bowl.
  • Stir in the sausage, peppers, onion, and jalapeno.
  • Pour into a 9×9 baking pan.
  • Bake for 1 hour.
  • Check and stir after 30 minutes. If the mixture is too dry, add a few squirts of ketchup, stir, and continue baking.
  • Serve hot.

Notes

You can substitute hot dogs for the smoked sausage.

Nutrition

Calories: 424kcal | Carbohydrates: 50g | Protein: 10g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 54mg | Sodium: 1016mg | Potassium: 364mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 45g | Vitamin A: 268IU | Vitamin C: 13mg | Calcium: 49mg | Iron: 1mg

Nutritional values are approximate.

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Pig Shots

Pig shots (and variations) are a common treat at BBQ competitions. I’ve never tried them. So I thought I’d give them a shot throw a few on my smoker when doing my last smoke. Sausage, bacon, cream cheese and seasonings make for a great treat. It’s important to have a few little treats to snack on as a day’s worth of smoking goes on. A lot of these little delicious morsels became cook’s treats. Those are the bites that the cook gets to take before everyone else. That’s one of the best things of being the cook.

Pig Shots

Easy To Make. Even Easier To Eat.

Pig shots are incredibly easy to make. You can use different combinations of creamed cheese and rubs to make your own flavors. You could even have a ‘pig shot’ flight. A combination of savory, sweet and spicy ones! That’d be awesome!

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Also try my smoked Scotch eggs!

Pig Shots
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Pig Shots

Great one-bite shots filled with smoked pork flavors, creamy cheese and a hit of spice.
Course Appetizer
Cuisine American
Keyword smoked, treats
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 3 hours
Total Time 3 hours 20 minutes
Servings 32
Calories 141kcal

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Heat your smoker to 225 F.
  • Cut the bacon pieces in half in the middle.
  • Cut the sausage into coins that are half as thick as the bacon is high when stood on edge.
  • Wrap the bacon around the sausage and secure with a toothpick. You want the bottom of the sausage to be even with the bottom of the bacon. This will form a level edge on the bottom, and a little ‘cup’ at the top for the remaining ingredients.
  • Spoon some cream cheese into each 'cup'.
  • Sprinkle with brown sugar and your favorite BBQ rub.
  • Place on smoker until the bacon is done and just starting to crisp up.
  • Serve warm.

Notes

Best served immediately.

Nutrition

Calories: 141kcal | Carbohydrates: 2g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 31mg | Sodium: 248mg | Potassium: 71mg | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 148IU | Calcium: 13mg | Iron: 1mg

Nutritional values are approximate.

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