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Mom's Barbecued Baked Beans

A baked bean dish flavored with turkey bacon, onion, ketchup, chili sauce, mustard, apple cider vinegar, brown sugar, and cheddar cheese.

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Why it works: Ketchup and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,099 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Mom's Barbecued Baked Beans

Oven350

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Saute the turkey bacon in olive oil until very crispy.

  2. Remove the bacon to drain, leaving the oil in the pan.

  3. Chop the Vidalia onion and sauté in the remaining oil until dark brown.

  4. Crumble the cooked bacon.

Make the sauce

  1. In a large saucepan, combine the ketchup, chili sauce, mustard, apple cider vinegar, brown sugar, shredded sharp cheddar cheese, fresh ground pepper, salt, and the remaining olive oil; simmer on low until the cheese melts completely.

Assemble and bake

  1. Rinse the baked beans thoroughly and drain.

  2. Pour the beans into a casserole dish.

  3. Pour the sauce over the beans and fold in until the beans are completely mixed in.

  4. Bake covered at 350 for 30 minutes.

  5. Remove the cover and bake for 20 more minutes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

674Calories
45 gProtein
31 gFat
57 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 16 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beannot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Ketchup + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Beans + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Garlic + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Beans + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,935 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Baked beans
Form the bulk of the dish and absorb the sauce as they bake.
Ketchup
Provides sweetness, acidity and body to the sauce.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the sauce caramelize slightly as it cooks.
Vidalia onion
Adds savory depth and sweetness when cooked until dark brown.
Turkey bacon
Adds smoky, savory flavor and fat to the dish.
Sharp cheddar cheese
Melts into the sauce, adding richness and a tangy, savory note.

The step that matters

Simmering the sauce until the cheese melts completely. Cheese can separate, turn grainy or stick to the pan if heated too hard or too fast. Simmering gently on low lets the fat and proteins melt into a smooth, evenly combined sauce before it meets the beans.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, onion, turkey, garlic, ketchup, sauce, mustard):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, onion, turkey, garlic, ketchup, sauce, mustard. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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