Sauces & sides
Campfire Cowboy Beans
For the dig-camp dinner alongside foil-pack clams
- 35 min
- Easy
- Serves 4–6
Ingredients
- 2 cans pinto or navy beans
- 4 slices bacon, diced, 1 onion
- 1/3 cup BBQ sauce, 1 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tsp mustard, splash of coffee (trust it)
Method
- Render bacon in a Dutch oven on the fire or stove.
- Onion until soft.
- Beans, BBQ sauce, sugar, mustard, coffee.
- Simmer low 25 minutes, stirring so the bottom never catches.
- Serve beside anything cooked on the same fire.
Tip. The splash of coffee adds a dark backbone no one can name.
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