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Baked Beans with Bacon

These baked beans are your perfect addition to a big breakfast! They are sweet and morish and the bacon gives a lovely smokiness too.
Servings 4 -6

Ingredients

  • 3 rashers of bacon cut in half crosswise
  • 2 tablespoons of brown sugar
  • ¼ cup Dijon mustard
  • ½ cup tomato sauce
  • ½ cup chicken stock
  • 1 Tablespoon Tomato paste
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • 3 cans of beans – small white beans I used cannellini, drained, and rinsed
  • Salt and pepper
  • 5 small sprigs of thyme

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 190 degrees fanbake
  2. Take a fry pan and cook the bacon on each side until a little fat has been rendered off. Around 6 minutes. The bacon will be brown in some places. Remove from the pan and set aside.
  3. In your Biroix Dutch Oven add the brown sugar, mustard, tomato sauce, chicken broth, tomato pasta and garlic. Stir to combine. Add the beans and mix gently. Season with salt & pepper.
  4. Take the bacon and thyme and place on top of the beans.
  5. Place in the oven with the lid and bake. After 30 minutes remove the lid, and cook for a further 40 minutes.
  6. Remove from the oven and leave to sit for 5 minutes and serve with toast and wilted greens.