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Maple Baked Beans with Apple Sausage

Maple Baked Beans with Apple Sausage - a very different and infinitely more delicious version of "beans and weiners".
Course Dinner
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 4 hours
Total Time 4 hours 20 minutes
Servings 12 or more servings
Author Barry C. Parsons

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 pounds dry white beans (navy beans work well
  • 4 cloves minced garlic
  • 1 large red onion finely chopped
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 3 cups water
  • 1 cup maple syrup
  • 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp pepper
  • 3 tbsp smoked paprika
  • 1 tsp chipotle powder
  • 1 tbsp dried thyme
  • 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
  • one 28 ounce can tomato sauce
  • 2 tbsp dry mustard powder
  • 4 large apples peeled, cored and diced (Softer fleshed apples like Macintosh are good, not crisp type apples like Granny Smiths. Use one you would use to make applesauce.)
  • 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
  • 1 1/2 pounds low-fat apple sausage

Instructions

  1. Begin by soaking the beans in water overnight or up to 48 hours.
  2. Sauté together the olive oil, garlic and onions until softened but not browned.
  3. Cook until the onions and garlic are softened, then add all of the other ingredients EXCEPT the sausages, along with the drained soaked beans to a large oven safe dutch oven or covered roasting pan.
  4. Stir all together well, cover and place in a 325 degree F oven for minimum 4 hours
  5. stirring occasionally. (Some varieties of white beans can take much longer, 6 hours or more, so plan to start them early or make them a day ahead as I mostly do.) The beans should be fully cooked and tender and the sauce
  6. should thicken. I sometimes add a little extra boiling water during the cooking time if the sauce thickens too quickly before the beans are fully cooked. This is not a problem at all and can be done a few times if necessary, depending on the length of cooking time.
  7. Roast or pan fry the sausage to fully cooked.
  8. Slice the sausages into coins and add them to the baked beans in the last 30-60 minutes of cooking time for the beans.