Slow Cooker Cowboy Beans

This hearty cowboy beans recipe combines baked beans with pork, kidney beans, lima beans, and ground beef in sweet and tangy homemade barbecue sauce.

• Preparation Time: 10 mins
• Cooking Time: 3 hr 10 mins
• Total Time: 3 hr 20 mins
• Calories: 471 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 onions, chopped
• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 cup ketchup
• 1 teaspoon prepared mustard
• 1 (15 ounce) can kidney beans, rinsed and drained
• 1 (28 ounce) can baked beans with pork
• 1 (15 ounce) can lima beans, rinsed and drained
• 0.5 pound bacon, chopped

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir ground beef and bacon together in the hot skillet until beef is browned and crumbly, about 7 to 10 minutes.

Step 2

Transfer hamburger and bacon into a slow cooker; stir in baked beans with pork, kidney beans, lima beans, onions, ketchup, brown sugar, and mustard.

Step 3

Cover and cook on Low until thickened and bubbling, at least 3 hours.