Ingredients
Basic recipe:
- Olive oil or bacon grease
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2 medium onions
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 1 large can baked beans (not the tomato kind)
- 2 pinches brown sugar (to taste)
- Buns
- Optional: lettuce or shredded cabbage
Directions
In a frying pan, caramelize onions in olive oil or bacon grease. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add ground beef and cook until browned. Add beans and about 2 pinches of brown sugar, cook until heated through and consistency of a sandwich. Serve on bun with lettuce or shredded cabbage, if desired.
Variations:
If desired, add one or more of the following before you add the ground beef:
- 1 green pepper, diced
- 3 stalks celery, diced
If desired, add one or more of the following when you add the beans:
- 1/2 to 3/4 cup ketchup (to taste)
- 1/2 cup barbecue sauce
- 2 tablespoons yellow or brown mustard
- Other spices as desired (cayenne pepper, Worcestershire sauce, etc.)
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By hpreztak_7026446
Apopka, FL
on January 13, 2007
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Excellent recipe-quick , easy and really a complete meal. My husband loves this recipe and I've been making it for several years!
By gloria.mason_56...
baytown, TX
on June 29, 2006
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This was a very bland and bean flavored sandwitch...won't make it again
By scoldren_685030
mifflintown, PA
on August 21, 2004
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very good, i still makes thes sandwiches
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