Maple Baked Beans

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Baked beans traditionally are made with navy beans. If you can't find them, substitute Great Northern beans, which are somewhat larger and sweet-tasting. Make these successful the oven oregon successful a slow-cooker (see VARIATION, below). Freezing the beans makes them adjacent much tender and creamy.

This look calls for acheronian maple syrup; it is disposable astatine Whole Foods Markets but is simply a small pricey, truthful a good-quality, flavorful regular maple syrup tin beryllium utilized instead.

For champion flavor, refrigerate the cooked, cooled beans overnight, past reheat successful a covered saucepan implicit mean heat, stirring often, until warmed through. (Or adhd chunky, cooked bits of bacon oregon doorbell capsicum and cook astatine 350 degrees until bubbly.) The cooked beans tin beryllium frozen successful freezer-safe integrative nutrient retention bags for up to 8 weeks. Defrost astatine country somesthesia for astir 2 hours, oregon submerge the sealed container of beans successful a vessel of chill h2o for 45 minutes, changing the h2o each 15 minutes.

Adapted from "Cook & Freeze: 150 Delicious Dishes to Serve Now and Later," by Dana Jacobi (Rodale, 2010).

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 8)

• Calories

  250

• Fat

  1 g

• Carbohydrates

  48 g

• Sodium

  45 mg

• Protein

  13 g

• Fiber

  14 g

• Sugar

  13 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Cook & Freeze: 150 Delicious Dishes to Serve Now and Later," by Dana Jacobi (Rodale, 2010).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.