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    Home > Side Dishes > Calico Beans, The Best Pot Of Beans You’ll Ever Tango With

    Calico Beans, The Best Pot Of Beans You’ll Ever Tango With

    Published: Aug 9, 2015 · Modified: Feb 16, 2022 by Lea Ann Brown · This post may contain affiliate links

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    Dutch Oven Calico Beans

    Calico Beans. Nourishing, satisfying and the best pot of beans you’ll ever tango with. A great line up of beans, bacon and a perfect combination of sweet and spicy.

    Great Baked beans recipe

    Planning a late Summer BBQ, you know, the one you’ve been putting off and you’re afraid you’re losing track of warm weather gatherings? This recipe feeds a crowd and is great for a pot luck or back yard BBQ.

    The perfect combination of sweet and tangy, bacon is involved and canned beans makes this Calico Bean recipe is easy to make. Perfect in my book. A few years ago, our company, Heritage Title, formed a committee and published a cookbook to sell with the proceeds earmarked for charity.

    This recipe comes from my direct supervisor, April Kovari, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. After hearing several co-workers singing its praises, I’ve wanted to make this pot of beans for a long time. I have no idea what took me so long, it’s a great recipe.

    When the book was published and available for sale, I bought a stock pile. I’ve given them as gifts and have a couple left. I’ll be giving one away to a reader who is interested and simply leaves a comment that you’d like to win the book. It’s 120 pages of recipes submitted by the finest group of Title folks in Colorado. Lots of goodness here. Winner will be chosen using random.org. Contest ends August 16, midnight.

    Heritage title cookbook

    Recipe for Calico Beans

    I hope you give this Calico Beans recipe a try. And if you do, please come back and let me know how you liked it and give the recipe a star rating.

    Your feedback is valuable to me for developing future recipes. And if you have a favorite baked beans recipe, let me know, I’d love to give it a try.

    More Baked Bean Recipes

    • Oklahoma Spicy Baked Beans
    • Mexican Chorizo Instant Pot Pinto Beans
    • Bolita Beans with Red Wine, Smoked Paprika and Jalapeno

    And if you’re looking for even more side dishes for picnic style gatherings, don’t miss this line-up of Summer cook-out sides. I’m positive you’ll find something you love.

    Great Baked beans recipe

    Calico Beans

    Nourishing, satisfying and the best pot of beans I’ve ever tangoed with
    5 from 4 votes
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    Course: Side Dish
    Cuisine: American
    Prep Time: 30 minutes
    Cook Time: 50 minutes
    Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
    Servings: 12
    Calories: 502kcal
    Author: Lea Ann Brown

    Ingredients

    • 15 ounce can kidney beans drained
    • 15 ounce can butter beans drained
    • 15 ounce can lima beans drained
    • 56 ounce Bush's baked beans 2-28 ounce cans, not drained
    • 1 pound bacon cut up
    • 4 small sweet onions
    • 1 cup brown sugar
    • 1/2 cup vinegar
    • 1 teaspoon dry mustard
    • 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
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    Instructions

    • Brown bacon. Once cooked, remove to a plate and drain half the grease off. Sautee onion in bacon drippings until soft. Add brown sugar, vinegar, mustard and garlic salt. Simmer 20 minutes. Add all of the beans to the sauce and mix. Mix half the bacon into the beans and crumble the rest on top. Bake uncovered at 325 degrees for 50 minutes.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 502kcal | Carbohydrates: 71g | Protein: 19g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 34mg | Sodium: 1122mg | Potassium: 975mg | Fiber: 14g | Sugar: 25g | Vitamin A: 88IU | Vitamin C: 17mg | Calcium: 139mg | Iron: 5mg
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    Looking for more bean recipes that are perfect for a pot luck?  How about this:

    Old Fashioned Sweet Tangy Four Bean Salad

    Old Fashioned four bean salad using 4 cans of beans.

    Calico Beans …It’s what’s for your next Pot Luck.

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. lena adams says

      August 11, 2017 at 4:09 pm

      5 stars
      i would love to win! this cookbook will give my new cast iron dutch oven a whirl!

      Reply
    2. Barb Behmer says

      August 23, 2015 at 3:50 pm

      This sounds easy and delicious. A pot of beans sounds good on a cold winter’s night.

      Reply
    3. Pat says

      August 14, 2015 at 12:31 pm

      This looks fabulous! I have a pot luck barbecue I’m going to tomorrow and already made a three bean salad, but I’ll make this one soon for us to enjoy. We love beans!
      I also love cookbooks filled with family favorite recipes like this one so please enter my name in thé draw. Thanks!

      Reply
    4. Chris says

      August 14, 2015 at 11:43 am

      This would go perfectly under a brisket in the smoker! Nice appearance and flavors.

      Reply
      • Lea Ann Brown says

        August 16, 2015 at 6:45 am

        Yes sir! 🙂

        Reply
    5. Linda R says

      August 13, 2015 at 3:07 pm

      I would really like to add this book to my collection!!

      Reply
    6. cheri says

      August 11, 2015 at 9:20 pm

      5 stars
      Hi Lea Ann, I would love to win this book, I love all of the recipes that you post and my daughter and her husband are trying to move to Colorado themselves which means my husband and I will be following. Beans are one of my favorite foods.

      Reply
    7. Sam @ My Carolina Kitchen says

      August 10, 2015 at 4:16 am

      What a colorful bean dish Lea Ann with all of the different colors. It would be great for a potluck or keep at home just to enjoy with grilled foods this summer. The cookbook sounds like a great book, but I’m weeding out cookbooks as we speak, so I’ll have to pass (reluctantly I assure you). Unfortunately I can’t resist cookbooks…
      Sam

      Reply
      • Sam @ My Carolina Kitchen says

        August 10, 2015 at 4:16 am

        Looks like my comment posted this time. Yea!

        Reply
        • Lea Ann Brown says

          August 10, 2015 at 6:24 am

          Yay!

    8. Denise says

      August 10, 2015 at 12:57 am

      looks like a great recipe ~`i have seen this done with ground hamburger added in and a bit of Liquid smoke for added ingredients to make more of a main meal out of it as well ~~i would love to win the cookbook by the way as well

      Reply
      • Lea Ann Brown says

        August 17, 2015 at 5:46 pm

        Denise, you’ve won the cookbook, can you please email me? Under “contact” on the tab on my home page.

        Reply
    9. OkieMags says

      August 09, 2015 at 9:53 pm

      Yes, Please,
      Thank You Very Much!

      Reply
    10. Larry says

      August 09, 2015 at 8:00 pm

      Sounds like a delicious bean recipe – I like all of the beans you used in it.

      Reply
    11. Nancy Seaberg says

      August 09, 2015 at 5:45 pm

      I would love to win this cookbook. I love to cook, using recipes that intrigue me.

      Reply

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