Easy Crock Pot Cowboy Beans
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These Easy Crock Pot Cowboy Beans are fantastic as a flavorful side dish and perfect as a hearty bowl all on their own. This easy recipe calls for a variety of beans, brown sugar, molasses, onion, bacon, ground beef and sausage along with ketchup, bbq sauce and seasonings to bring together that cowboy bean flavor everyone loves slow cooked to perfection! Readers LOVE this recipe!
How to Make Cowboy Beans in a Slow Cooker
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When we saw these Easy Crock Pot Cowboy Beans in Gooseberry Patchโs Busy Day Slow Cooking Cookbook I knew we were going to make them! We are BIG fans of cowboy beans around here and these sweet and savory beans did not disappoint! Mikey even made a video about it (above)!
Easy Crock Pot Cowboy Beans Notes
- Feel free to substitute beans of your choice as needed or desired.
- This recipe is from Gooseberry Patchโs Busy Day Slow Cooking Cookbook.
- We like to use a multi-cooker to brown our ground beef and sausage in the same pot.
- You can use our Air Fryer Bacon to make your crisp bacon for this recipe super easy.
- This recipe easily doubles and triples for parties and potlucks, just use the slider in our recipe card.
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- As with any of our recipes, carb counts, calorie counts and nutritional information varies greatly. As a result, your nutritional content depends on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish. The auto-calculation is just an automated estimate and should NOT be used for specific dietary needs.
- All slow cookers cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline. Recipes should always be tested first in your own slow cooker and time adjusted as needed.
What Other Home Cooks are Saying
“This was my 1st time cooking cowboy chili and surprisingly it was great. My new go to meal”
Demra C.
“Very yummy, the entire family enjoyed them. Easy to make too.”
Ashley R.
“They stole the show at Christmas! Everyone raved about them!”
Anna M.
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Easy Crock Pot Cowboy Beans
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb bacon cooked crisply and crumbled we used precooked bacon crumbles instead
- 1/2 lb ground beef
- 1/2 lb ground pork breakfast sausage
- 1/2 cup onion chopped
- 16 oz can pork and beans
- 16 oz can pinto or chili beans
- 16 oz can butter beans drained
- 16 oz can kidney beans drained
- 1/4 cup catsup
- 1/4 cup barbeque sauce
- 1/4 cup brown sugar packed
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 2 Tablespoon mustard
- 1 Tablespoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1 teaspoon Montreal steak seasoning or pepper
Instructions
- Cook your bacon over medium heat on your stove until crisp, drain and crumble
- In a different skillet, brown your beef and sausage over medium heat
- Toss your onion in with your meat mixture and cook until the onions are tender, drain
- Put your meat and onion mixture and your bacon in your crock pot
- Pour your undrained pork and beans, undrained pinto or chili beans and the rest of your ingredients to your crock pot
- Give it all a gentle stir
- Cover and cook on high for an hour. After an hour reduce heat to low and cook, covered, for an additional 2-4 hours
- Give it a taste and adjust any seasonings to match your preferences
Video
Notes
- Feel free to substitute beans of your choice as needed or desired.
- This recipe is from Gooseberry Patchโsย Busy Day Slow Cooking Cookbook.
- We like to use aย multi-cooker to brown our ground beef and sausage in the same pot.
- You can use ourย Air Fryer Baconย to make your crisp bacon for this recipe super easy.
- This recipe easily doubles and triples for parties and potlucks, just use the slider in our recipe card.
- Looking for more recipes? Ourย Recipe Finderย can help you find exactly what you need.
- Check out all our favorite recommendations for cookbooks, slow cookers and low carb essentials in ourย Amazon Influencer Shop.
- As with any of our recipes, carb counts, calorie counts andย nutritionalย information varies greatly. As a result, yourย nutritionalย content depends on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish.ย The auto-calculation is just an automated estimate and should NOT be used for specific dietary needs.
- All slow cookers cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline. Recipes shouldย always be tested first in your own slow cooker and time adjusted as needed.
Nutrition
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Been making this on a regular basis. When I ask the wife if I should make it again, she grads all the stuff, drops it on the counter and then says yes.
Need to double it up each time cause it goes quick and sometimes think I should triple. Great left over as well, freezes well. Just switch some of the beans to what we like and have on hand. Really good, thanks.
Delicious, I put in twice as much bacon and a full lb of beef but thats just because we’re fat like that. Hubby forgot the brats, which is what I was going to use. Personally Im using way less chili powder next time, kindof overpowered the beans to my taste, I like them sweeter but still 5 stars because everyone loved them
Nice recipe as is. We’ve prepared this a good number of times since it was first published a few years ago. We’ve cut back a little on the 4 sweeteners and it was still quite good. And especial thanks for not labeling it “chili”, because that one TBS of chili powder doesn’t make it so.
Wow! This is a fabooo recipe. I did not use ground beef. Just breakfast sausage and bacon. I have a recipe for something called Magic Dust from another recipe for baked beans so I added that spice .. it has chili powder and other ingredients in it. No kidney beans or butter beans either. People are still raving over it. Thank you so much! PS.. I like fresh garlic and I wanted to use a red pepper so I chopped that up and sauteed as well . Extremely versatile recipe.
Oh so glad to hear it, Doris! Thanks so much for taking the time to drop by to let us know.
How much bacon crumbles do you use in place of 1/2 lb cooked bacon?
Hi Sue!
It is really up to you. Half pound would equal 8 oz, but you can use more or less according to taste. Enjoy!
How many does this serve?
Hi Rob-
That will vary depending on if you are eating it as a main dish or a side with other sides. In general we say it feeds 8-10 as a side. Enjoy!
I made these to be served with Easter dinner this year. A HUGE hit, everyone loved them and they are so easy! Thanks for the awesome recipes, videos, and website!
Hi Milissa-
So glad you guys enjoyed it!!
i can’t wait to fix these — i have a similar recipe i’ve been doing for years but this sounds even better. Mine uses only ground beef (no sausage or bacon – and we know that sausage and bacon ALWAYS makes things better), and it only uses pork & beans and chili beans. this will be great for our summer barbeques.
Hi Roxanne-
I would just substitute brown sugar for the molasses. Enjoy!
Is there a substitute for the molasses you can suggest?
I always use Dark Brown Sugar