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Weekend Loving Homemade Molasses Baked Beans

Heather Thomas, sloCooking

Ingredients
  

  • 1 lb dry great northern beans
  • 4 cups + 4 cups water
  • 4 cups chicken stock
  • ¼ cup + 1/8 cup molasses
  • ¼ cup + 1/8 cup apple cider vinegar
  • ¼ cup + 1/8 cup white miso paste
  • 2 tbsp low sodium soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp yellow mustard powder
  • 2 garlic cloves minced
  • 1 tsp paprika
  • 2 tsp fresh grated or minced ginger
  • 3/4 cup loose light brown sugar add at very end of cooking
  • ¼ cup ketchup

Instructions
 

  • Quick cook beans – place beans in heavy pot, cover with 4 cups water, bring to boil for 5 minutes, reduce to simmer – let simmer 1 hour or until beans are soft all the way through when cut with a knife
  • Drain soaking liquid
  • Add 4 cups water and 4 cups chicken stock to beans in pot
  • Pre-heat oven to 350’
  • Bring beans on stove top to a boil, reduce heat to low
  • Cook for 20-30 minutes, skim off foam if any shows up on top of pot
  • Cook until beans are tender and skin peels away when you blow on a bean
  • Meanwhile, mix molasses, vinegar, miso, soy sauce, mustard powder, garlic, paprika and ginger together
  • Pour into pot with beans
  • Bring to a boil
  • Turn off heat – cover and place pot in the oven
  • Cook 30 minutes, stir
  • Cook 30 more minutes, stir and remove from oven
  • Return to stove top, cook over medium high heat, with lid slightly ajar – this will help cook down the liquid in the pot
  • Stir after 30 minutes, if still too wet, lower temperature to simmer and cook in increments of 30 minutes or until liquid has thickened up
  • Turn off heat, add in light brown sugar & ketchup, stir to dissolve, cover and let sit for 10 minutes
  • Serve warm