Homemade Baked Beans with Bacon (+recipe)

Homemade slow cooked baked beans with bacon served with some buttered toast.

Today I could only take a quick photo of this, it looked much better straight out of the slow cooker last night, the liquids have since thickened over night but I have two not very well kids at the moment so photography isn't top of my list of things to do today.

Over the weekend my husbands aunt who works at a health foods place bought me a nice bag of goodies full of things I wouldn't normally think to use which is great as it makes me think outside my usual comfort zone. I have many more things to find things to make with such as brown linseed, prunes, cherries, raisins, quinoa and nuts so this is going to be fun making new things.

RECIPE (I read the reviews of the original recipe linked below and changed a few things)
Ingredients

2 cups kidney beans
5 cups water
1 diced onion
1/2 tsp salt
3 slices diced bacon
4 tbsp brown sugar
1 tsp mustard
1/2 tsp pepper
1/4 cup ketchup

Directions

1. Add kidney beans to a pan of cold water and leave overnight to soak.
2. Gently fry onions and bacon until slightly golden.
3. Put your slow cooker on a low heat, add beans (drained) water, onion, salt and bacon (also de-glaze your frying plan with one cup of the water, add that to the slow cooker too to add even more flavour) Cover and cook for 9 to 10 hours.
3. Drain the beans, saving the liquid. Add brown sugar, mustard, ketchup, pepper and 1 cup of the bean liquid. Cover and cook on low for a further 1 hour.
4. Serve, store any leftovers in an air tight container in the fridge.

Original recipe www.yummly.com/recipe/Slow-Coo…

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