APPLE BAKED BEANS
(A variation on Apple Pie Beans)
Ingredients
3 or 4 slices of bacon, diced
2 28-oz cans of Baked Beans (Bush's Original preferred)
½ cup Blues Hog BBQ Sauce (or other sweet-spicy favorite)
1 lb. smoked pork or beef or 1 lb. crumbled cooked hot pork breakfast sausage
1 can apple pie filling, diced to about ½-inch cubes or just smashed with a potato masher
1 medium onion, chopped
½ green pepper, chopped
½ cup brown sugar
2 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
2 Tbsp. Mustard (prepared)
½ tsp chipotle or cayenne powder (optional, to taste)
1 tsp Blues Hog barbecue rub (or your favorite)
Directions
Preheat the pit to 325°F.
Brown the bacon in a frying pan.
Sauté the onion and green pepper in the bacon grease.
Mix all ingredients in a bowl.
Bake in 13X9 inch pan at 325°F for 1 hour, or simmer on stovetop in large pot for 30 minutes if you don't have time to do them in the pit.