Apple Cider Baked Beans Recipe

Ingredients

• Black and Brown Beans: Black/turtle beans are popular in Cuban cooking and bean salads
• Swedish Brown Beans: Swedes use brown beans in their version of Boston Baked Beans
• Red and Pink Beans:
• Red Kidney Beans: Are popular in chili
• Pink/Chili Beans: Smaller and paler than kidney beans
• Pinto Beans: Popular in chili and baked beans
• Adzuki Beans: Tiny and reddish brown. Popular in Asia, are often cooked with sugar for desserts
• White Beans:
• Cannellini/White Kidney Beans: Creamy texture, popular in white chili, salads and Tuscan soup
• Cranberry/Borlotti Beans: Looks more like a pinto bean but tastes like a white bean
• Great Northern Beans: Firm flesh, used in baked beans and soups
• Navy Beans: Small and oval, popular in baked beans and soups
• Chickpeas/Garbanzo Beans/Ceci Beans: Key ingredient in hummus and popular in salads
• Pale Green Beans:
• Fava/Broad Beans: Large and flat, common in Middle Eastern soups and dips
• Lima/Butter Beans: Large and flat, called Lima when fresh and Butter when dried
• Flageolets: Small green, delicate, delicious. Called French kidney beans
• Multi-Color Beans:
• Black-Eyed Peas/Cowpeas/Field Peas/Lady Peas: Small, pale green or white, with a dark "eye" Southerners simmer them with ham hocks and collard greens
• 6 cups water
• 1 1/2 cups great Northern beans, soaked
• 1 large yellow onion, chopped
• 4 strips bacon, cooked until crisp or
• 1/2 cup smoked cooked ham, chopped
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 1 T dry mustard
• 1/4 t each salt and pepper
• 1 cup apple cider or more
• Soak beans:
• Place dried beans in a large saucepan or Dutch oven
• Add enough cold water to cover the beans
• Add 1 T of salt to water and beans
• Stir, cover the pan
• Let stand at room temperature at least 8 hours or overnight
• Drain water and rinse beans, drain again
• In a large soup pot
• Combine 6 cups of water and soaked beans
• Bring to a boil
• Lower the heat and simmer, uncovered
• 2 hours or until beans are tender
• Drain beans, reserving 1/2 cup liquid
• Preheat oven to 325 F
• In a 2-quart casserole or bean pot, combine cooked beans, onion and bacon or ham
• Stir in 1/2 cup apple cider, brown sugar, molasses, ketchup, dry mustard, salt and pepper
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