Three Bean Hotdish Recipes

Steps:

• In a 2-1/2-qt. baking dish, combine beans; set aside. In a skillet, cook the beef, onion and garlic over medium heat until beef is no longer pink. Remove from the heat; drain. Add the remaining ingredients to the skillet; mix well. Stir beef mixture into beans. , Bake at 350° for 45 minutes or until heated through.

Steps:

• Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, break into medium pieces and set aside. In same skillet, brown beef and onion. Drain fat.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Place bacon/beef mixture in a large bowl and stir in the ketchup, sugar, vinegar, mustard, baked beans, kidney beans (with liquid) and butter beans (with liquid). Mix well.
• Spoon casserole mixture into a 9x13 inch baking dish and bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour, uncovered.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large skillet, cook and crumble beef with bacon and onion over medium heat until beef is no longer pink; drain., Stir in sugars, ketchup, barbecue sauce, molasses, mustard, chili powder and salt until blended. Stir in beans. Transfer to a greased 2-1/2-qt. baking dish. Bake, covered, until beans reach desired thickness, about 1 hour. , Freeze option: Freeze cooled bean mixture in freezer containers. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Heat through in a saucepan, stirring occasionally and adding a little water if necessary.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F.
• In 10-inch skillet, cook sausage, celery, onion and garlic over medium heat 8 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until sausage is no longer pink; drain.
• Mix sausage mixture and remaining ingredients in ungreased 3-quart casserole. Bake uncovered about 45 minutes, stirring once, until hot and bubbly.

Steps:

• Melt shortening in a large fry pan.
• Brown ground beef, bacon & onion together.
• Season to taste with Lawry's Season Salt & Black Pepper.
• Drain & discard fat.
• Stir in the brown sugar, ketchup, vinegar & dry mustard.
• Cover & simmer on med. low for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Drain the kidney beans & butter beans. DO NOT drain the baked beans!
• Stir the ground beef mixture & all the beans together & place into a 2-3 quart casserole dish & bake uncovered for 40 minutes at 350°.
• NOTE: You can place all ingredients into a 4 quart crock pot & simmer for several hours on low instead of baking in oven.

Steps:

• 1. Fry bacon in pan, when almost crispy add cut up onion. Fry until done. Drain bacon on papertowels, to get grease off.
• 2. Brown hamburger in pan, until done, drain. (hamburger is optional)
• 3. Drain kidney & butter beans.
• 4. Put kidney beans, butter beans, pork n' beans in crockpot. Add sugar, brown sugar, ketchup, dry mustard. Break bacon into small pieces & add with cooked onion to beans. Stir. Add hamburger. (if made)
• 5. Cook on high heat for 4 hours. Stir occasionally. Turn to low heat for 2 hours or to your liking.

Steps:

• Brown the bacon & let it cool. Some of the bacon grease may be saved and added in with the hamburger if you choose too.
• Cut or break the bacon into bite size pieces.
• While bacon is cooling brown the hamburger with the chopped onion and pepper, then drain of the grease if needed.
• Add the bacon (and bacon grease if you choose to) to the hamburger.
• Mix together the ketchup, mustard, brown sugar, vinegar and salt.
• Stir this in to the hamburger/bacon mixture.
• Stir in all the cans of beans.
• Bake in large baking dish in 350 degree oven for 1 hour or in your crock pot on high about 3-4 hours.
• A few hints for everyone. Any leftovers may be frozen, so you may enjoy at a later time without the prep work. You may also use your own favorite beans instead of those suggested in the recipe -- lima beans, pork and beans, red beans, northern beans, etc. Sometimes, depending on how many people I am serving, I will use 1 1/2 lbs. of hamburger and an extra can or 2 of beans and it is always just as good.
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a large bowl combine the frankfurters, pork and beans, butter beans, chili beans, onion, sugar, oregano and vinegar. Mix all together and pour mixture into a lightly greased 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Bake uncovered at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour, or until cooked through and bubbly.

Steps:

• In an ovenproof Dutch oven, cook the beef, onion and red pepper over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. Stir in the remaining ingredients. , Cover and bake at 350° for 1-1/2 to 2 hours or until heated through, stirring once.