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Guinness Baked Beans
Ingredients
  • Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 1 onion chopped
  • 1 onion quartered
  • 3/4 C. ketchup barbecue sauce, or tomato sauce mixed with 1/8 C. brown sugar
  • 1/2 bottle Guinness beer--plus extra to add to beans as they are baking to keep them moist
  • 1/8 C. apple cider vinegar
  • 1/8 C. molasses
  • 1/8 C. Dijon yellow or grainy mustard
  • 4 C. cooked small white beans
  • 1 Granny Smith apple peeled and chopped
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • Garnish with chopped parsley and/or a pretty radish
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Using a large heavy bean pot (I used my old Le Creuset Dutch oven), heat the olive oil and saute the chopped onion until it is tender and beginning to brown. This will take about 5 minutes.
  3. Add the tomato product you have chosen to use (I used ketchup), the Guinness, vinegar, molasses, mustard, beans and a generous amount of salt and pepper. Bring the mixture to a simmer. Stir in the quartered onion and the chopped apple. Cover the pan and put it in the oven to bake for at least one hour. I baked my beans for several hours, adding additional liquid to keep the beans moist. I used the extra Guinness, but you could also use apple juice.I turned down the oven heat to 300 degrees F. after the first hour of baking. You will want to bake your beans until the sauce on the beans is thick and bubbling.