Manwich Baked Beans uses a can of the sloppy joe sauce to make quick work of baked beans for your barbecue or cookout.
Manwich Baked Beans
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
Manwich Baked Beans is my recipe of the day. It is an easy way to get some baked beans into the oven for a cookout.
I don’t usually grab cans to make my sauces or seasonings, but I did have some of the Manwich on hand.
And I don’t usually use that either. But during recent months, I thought it might be a good idea to grab something easy enough for my husband to fix for supper if I got sick. Not that he can’t cook, but if he was feeling off as well, we would need easy work of something to eat. So I bought a couple cans of Manwich on sale.
And the cans just sat on the shelf before finally I figured out they probably weren’t going to be needed after all. So I made some sloppy joes with one for lunch. And if didn’t taste anything like I remembered from years ago.
Either that or I have become a snob. Because I do my own sloppy recipe and it tastes on point for the place in my brain that says “This is a sloppy Joe!” And when dealing with childhood memories, never mess with the child inside you. They will get ticked off.
Best to make my own. (And if you want that recipe, it is linked further down the page)
Anyhoo. This left me with one more can. And I wasn’t going back to sloppy joe land with it.
I decided to go all “Chopped” basket with it and make it into something else. I make barbecue often, and will be needing sides. So baked beans it was.
This is easy enough to stir up and bake. I know, I know. Skipping the meat, I didn’t put ground beef in it. Reason beingit would have made more servings. And I didn’t want too much food.
But since baked beans can be made effectively with ground beef added, feel free to brown up half pound or a pound and stir into the beans before baking. Check the consistency to see if you’ll need an extra can of sauce. If it looks too saucy, give it another can of beans. And make sure your baking dish holds it all.
If you overfill that, it will spill over in the oven. If you’re not sure, put the dish on a pizza pan to catch drips. And add five to ten on the baking time since the pizza pan will cause the beans to take slightly longer to thicken (it insulates the bottom of the dish from heat)
And enjoy. With a slab of ribs or perhaps some sloppy joes (of course using my from scratch recipes!) LOL!
Manwich Baked Beans
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Manwich Baked Beans
Manwich Baked Beans
Ingredients
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 teaspoons chopped garlic
- 15 ounce can Manwich sauce
- 2 15 ounces each cans pork and beans
- 1 tablespoon Louisiana hot pepper sauce
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- Saute the onion in olive oil until softened.
- Stir together with remaining ingredients and place in a greased oval casserole dish.
- Bake 45 minutes, uncovered, or until thickened.
Notes
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Lol … I have been fixing beans exactly this way for years ! I had some bbq beans in Florida years ago and I swear they used Manwich sauce . I loved them !
Baked beans make gag so I rinsed the molasses sauce off and added the Manwich sauce … Perfect !