Recipe: Smoked Baked Beans

PREP TIME: 45 minutes

COOK TIME: 3 hours

SERVES: 8-12 people

INGREDIENTS:

• [Cherry and Hickory wood pellets]

• 1 green pepper

• 1 white onion

• 2 cloves of garlic

• Olive Oil

• 2 Tablespoons BBQ Rub

• 28oz baked beans

• 1/4 cup ketchup

• 1/8 cup yellow mustard

• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

• 1/4 cup BBQ Sauce

• Optional but suggested:
  1 pound of smoked pulled pork

Supplies:

• Smoker or oven

• 7-quart Dutch oven

• Wooden spoon

STEPS:

1. Load char hickory and cherry pellets in smoker.

2. Preheat smoker to 250°.

3. Finely chop one green pepper and one white onion.

4. Mince two cloves of garlic.

5. Put Dutch oven on stove and turn heat to medium.

6. When heated, drizzle about 3 tablespoons olive oil in bottom of the Dutch oven.

7. Add chopped pepper and onion.

8. Stir and allow to cook down for a few minutes.

9. Add minced garlic to pepper and onion and stir well.

10. Season with 1 tablespoon BBQ Rub

11. Cook down pepper, onion, and garlic on medium heat.

12. Reduce heat to low and add baked beans

13. Add ketchup, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, barbecue sauce

14. Mix well.

15. If you have cooked pulled pork ready, add one pound now and mix together.

16. If you are cooking pulled pork simultaneously, then mix in one pound at the end.

17. Add - uncovered - to Traeger at 250° for 90 minutes.

18. At 90 minute mark, add the Dutch oven cover.

19. Keep on Traeger at 250° for an additional 90 minutes.

20. Remove and serve delicious, smoked, baked beans!

21. (Add one pound pulled pork before serving, if not done earlier.)