Hannah Kaminsky
Home-Cooked Maple Baked Beans
This delicious side combines the hearty nutrition of beans with a sweet maple flavor.
February 19, 2025
Not only are you making homemade beans (there’s nothing like homemade!), but you’re baking them in a sweet sauce. Get ready to try your new favorite way to eat the nutritional powerhouse that is beans.
What you need:
2 cups dried Anasazi beans (or small white Navy or pinto beans)
2 tablespoons gomasio (toasted sesame seeds pulverized in blender)
1 small onion, peeled
1 cup pure maple syrup (grade B is the best for this recipe)
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon dry mustard
What you do:
- Soak beans in enough water to cover for 8 hours or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Drain soaking water and in a large pot cover beans with 6 cups fresh water. Bring to a boil, then lower heat and simmer 10 minutes. Drain beans and reserve the cooking water.
- Place beans in a casserole or bean pot and mix with sesame meal. Insert onion in the center.
- Mix maple syrup with ¾ cup of reserved bean liquid, salt, and dry mustard. Pour over beans. Add just enough bean liquid to cover beans. Cover pot and bake 2 hours.
- Add remaining bean liquid, stir well, and bake for 1½ to 2 hours, or until beans are very soft and the liquid is absorbed (uncover for the last half hour or so). Adjust sweetness to taste. Discard onion and serve hot.
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