Cheater Baked Beans
These vegan baked beans are easy to make with pantry ingredients and canned beans. Not too sweet, rich and smoky, and oven-baked until thick and flavorful. Perfect for BBQs, picnics, and cookouts.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 medium yellow onion finely diced
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1 15-ounce can tomato sauce
- 1/2 cup light molasses not blackstrap
- 2 teaspoons mustard powder
- 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- 5 bay leafs
- 2 15-ounce cans small white beans, drained and rinsed
Instructions
- Preheat a medium-size oven-safe pot over medium heat. Sauté the onion in the oil for about 10 minutes; you want the onion to be a little bit browned, but definitely not burnt, just a little caramelized. Add the garlic and sauté for 1 more minute.
- Add the tomato sauce, molasses, mustard powder, paprika, salt, allspice, and bay leafs and cook for about 5 minutes.
- Add the beans, then cover the pot and transfer it to the oven. Bake for an hour, giving it a stir just once at about 30 minutes into the baking process. The sauce should thicken and sweeten. Keep warm until ready to serve. Remove bay leafs before serving (with tongs, don't burn yourself)
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