The smokey sausage is so delicious in these beans, and adding the crispy onions at the end adds a nice crunch that you’d expect from an oven baked casserole. Serve over buttered cornbread as a main dish or as a hearty and filling side dish.
Ingredients you’ll need:
6 slices bacon, cooked & crumbled
1 medium sweet onion, diced
1 medium red pepper, diced
salt & black pepper
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 [14 oz] smoked turkey sausage, cut into 1/2 inch thick slices
2 [22 oz] cans bourbon & brown sugar baked beans [i.e. Bush’s] 1 [10 oz] can diced chili style tomatoes [i.e. Rotel Chili Fixin’s] 1 cup frozen corn
2/3 cup barbecue sauce
1/4 cup bourbon
1 cup french fried onions, crushed
1/4 cup chopped cilantro
2 Tbsp Fiesta or Taco seasoning
Directions:
Spray a 6 quart slow cooker with cooking spray and set it on low. In a stove top pan, cook the bacon until crisp, then crumble and set aside. Cook the onions and peppers in 2 tablespoons of the bacon drippings until they begin to soften and turn translucent. Season with salt and black pepper to taste. Add the minced garlic and sauté for 1 minute. Remove from the heat.
Pour the peppers and onions into a large mixing bowl and mix together with the remaining ingredients. Pour carefully into the slow cooker. Cook on low for 6 hours or on high for 3-4 hours. Stir thoroughly at the end of cooking, then sprinkle crushed fried onions on top just before serving. Yield: approximately 3 quarts
Cook’s note:
As the bean casserole sits, the sauce will thicken and intensify in flavor. After I remove the lid to stir, and top with onions, I recommend that you leave the lid off the slow cooker for about 10-15 minutes before serving.
Slow Cooked Bourbon Bean & Smoked Sausage Casserole
Ingredients
- 6 slices bacon cooked & crumbled
- 1 medium sweet onion diced
- 1 medium red pepper diced
- salt & black pepper
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1 [14 oz] smoked turkey sausage cut into 1/2 inch thick slices
- 2 [22 oz] cans bourbon & brown sugar baked beans [i.e. Bush's]
- 1 [10 oz] can diced chili style tomatoes [i.e. Rotel Chili Fixin's]
- 1 cup frozen corn
- 2/3 cup barbecue sauce
- 1/4 cup bourbon
- 1 cup french fried onions crushed
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- 2 Tbsp Fiesta or Taco seasoning
Instructions
- Spray a 6 quart slow cooker with cooking spray and set it on low.
- In a stove top pan, cook the bacon until crisp, then crumble and set aside.
- Cook the onions and peppers in 2 tablespoons of the bacon drippings until they begin to soften and turn translucent. Season with salt and black pepper to taste. Add the minced garlic and sauté for 1 minute. Remove from the heat.
- Pour the peppers and onions into a large mixing bowl and mix together with the remaining ingredients.
- Pour carefully into the slow cooker.
- Cook on low for 6 hours or on high for 3-4 hours. Stir thoroughly at the end of cooking, then sprinkle crushed fried onions on top just before serving.
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Didi Dalaba says
Reading this literally made my mouth water Melissa!!!
Melissa says
Thanks sweet Didi! ♥