I came up with this recipe after having made some bourbon baked beans and seeing a recipe for cola baked beans and I thought: Why not combine the two?
Ingredients
- brown sugar: 0.5 cup
- ground paprika: 1 Tbsp
- dry mustard: 1 tsp
- cayenne pepper: 0.25 tsp
- (12 fl oz) can caffeinated pepper-type soda (such as Dr Pepper®): 1 piece
- ketchup: 0.75 cup
- Worcestershire sauce: 0.25 cup
- slices bacon: 8 piece
- onion: 1 piece (chopped)
- clove garlic: 1 piece (minced)
- Bourbon: 0.25 cup
- baked beans with pork: 2 cans (16 ounce cans)
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
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Mix brown sugar, paprika, mustard, and cayenne pepper together in a bowl. Whisk in pepper soda, ketchup, and Worcestershire sauce until brown sugar is dissolved.
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Cut 4 slices of bacon into small strips. Cook and stir in a large Dutch oven over medium heat until almost crispy, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer to a bowl, reserving bacon grease.
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Stir onion into the bacon grease in the Dutch oven; cook and stir until soft, 3 to 5 minutes. Add garlic; cook and stir for 1 minute. Pour in bourbon, stirring to scrape up browned bits off the bottom with a wooden spoon. Stir bacon strips back in.
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Pour brown sugar mixture and baked beans into the Dutch oven. Simmer until beans are heated through, about 15 minutes. Arrange remaining 4 slices of bacon on top of the beans.
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Bake in the preheated oven, covered, until beans are bubbly and sauce is syrupy, about 3 hours.
