Ultimate Smoked Baked Bean Recipe with Bacon and Jalapeno!

Dutch's Wicked Beans Recipe
This is truly a fabulous bean recipe. It can be cooked in the oven, but smoking it on a smoker is absolutely the best!! If there are leftovers, every time you warm and eat them the smoke infused bean aroma will fill the room!
I've updated this recipe with a few tweeks from the original posting on my blog.
Prep time: 30-40 minutes
Smoke time: 2-4 hours (the longer you cook, the less runny the sauce)
Tools: Can opener, knife, cutting boards, gloves (for chopping jalapeno), slotted spoon, bake sheet or fry pan (for bacon), large bowl, 9X13 dish or disposable foil half-pan, smoker (for best results).
(my recipe tweaks are in parenthesis)
Ingredients:
∙ 6-8 strips of bacon diced and cooked
∙ ½ medium onion diced
∙ ½ bell pepper diced
∙ 1 - 2 jalapeno peppers diced (I use 3 large jalapenos seeded - more jalapeno flavor, less jalapeno heat.)
∙ 1 - 55 ounce can Bush's Baked Beans
∙ 1-8 ounce can of pineapple tidbits, do not drain
∙ 1 Cup Brown Sugar, packed
∙ 1 Cup ketchup (Heinz, of course)
∙ ½ - 1 TBSP dry (ground) mustard (I use a full TBSP, adds a little more heat.)
Instructions:
Step 1: Dice bacon and fry or bake until crispy. Drain and set aside.
Chopped bacon Fried bacon
Step 2: Dice onion, bell pepper and jalapeno pepper. (use gloves when chopping jalapeno peppers).
Step 3: In a large mixing bowl combine beans, drained pineapple, brown sugar, ketchup and dry mustard. Add all ingredients, veggies, cooked bacon and mix well.
Step 4: Pour into a disposable aluminum half pan.
Step 5: Place in a 225° smoker for 2 - 4 hours (or a 350° oven for 1 - 2 hours). The longer they cook, the less runny the beans will be. It is a matter of preference. (I've only done these beans in Black Betty, but I guarantee they are not as good when not cooked in a smoker).
NOTE:
If you are making these beans as a side dish for Kansas City style pork ribs, smoke the removed rib skirt meat for 1-1½ hours, then dice the skirt meat and stir into the Baked Beans.
DISCLAIMER:
Jalapeno pepper and dry mustard add the potential for some MAJOR heat. Jalapeno heat level can vary greatly and CAUTION should be exercised when feeding these beans to small children and/or the elderly. You can always add heat, you can't take it out.
FAMILY FRIENDLY:
To make this recipe Family Friendly, omit the Jalapeno pepper and the dry mustard (but of course, that would be boring).
Epilogue;
When smoking beans in Black Betty there is an infusion of flavor impossible to replicate. The smoke coats the top layer and when I thoroughly stir them every 30 minutes it incorporates more and more of that amazing smoke flavor into the beans.
I hosted a party a couple years ago and did 4 batches of Dutch's Wicked Beans. Some of the leftovers went to friends and one of them later told me, "Every time I warm a bowl of beans, I smell your smoker in my kitchen".
When you make this recipe, post your thoughts. If you tweak it, post your tweaks and your results!
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