Slow Cooker Guinness Baked Beans

Method

Step by step

1. 01

   Cook bacon in a heavy skillet. Sed aside on paper towels to drain. (don’t wash the skillet just yet!)

2. 02

   Add onions to the skillet with bacon grease and cook over LOW heat to sweat onions. This will help flavor the onions.  Do NOT brown them – the onions should be almost translucent when finished cooking.

3. 03

   Using a slotted spoon, remove onions from grease and place in a 5-Quart slow cooker.

4. 04

   Top with the drained and rinsed beans, ketchup, Worcestershire, tomato paste, Guinness, brown sugar, mustard, smoked paprika, honey, crumbled bacon, salt and pepper.

5. 05

   Add hot sauce, if desired.

6. 06

   Cover and crock on LOW 5-6 hours.

Originally published on getcrocked.com.