I found the recipe matching your description. It’s a 5-ingredient slow-cooker beef and baked beans dinner. Cooktop Cove
Slow-Cooker Beef & Baked Beans
Ingredients
- 1 lb (450 g) ground beef
- 2 cans (28 oz / 794 g each) baked beans
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- ½ cup barbecue sauce
- 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
Instructions
- Lightly grease the slow cooker if desired.
- Put the raw ground beef in the bottom and break it into smaller pieces with a spoon.
- Scatter the chopped onion over the beef.
- Pour the baked beans over everything.
- Add the barbecue sauce and yellow mustard.
- Stir thoroughly so the beef is distributed throughout the beans and sauce.
- Cover and cook:
- LOW: 5–6 hours
- HIGH: 3–4 hours
- Stir once or twice during cooking if convenient, breaking up any larger pieces of beef.
- Before serving, make sure the ground beef is fully cooked and the dish is piping hot.
- Serve immediately with cornbread, toast, baked potatoes, or a simple green salad.
Optional additions
For a little heat, add chili powder, hot sauce, or diced jalapeño. For a thicker consistency, leave the lid slightly ajar toward the end of cooking.
Serves: about 6
The original recipe specifically uses the unusual “raw beef directly into the slow cooker” method. Cooktop Cove For better browning and to remove excess grease, another approach is to brown the beef first; recipes using that method generally recommend it for improved flavor and texture. fantabulosity.com
If you’d like, I can also give you a richer Southern-style version with bacon, brown sugar, BBQ sauce and mustard.
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