Sweet Heat Baked Bean Chili
An easy and delicious baked bean chili with the right amount of heat balanced with sweet.
Servings: 6 people
Ingredients
- 1 large yellow onion
- 1 tbsp. minced garlic
- 1 lb. ground hamburger
- 1 lb. sweet Italian sausage
- 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
- 2 12 ounce jar chili sauce
- 2 packets of Sazon
- 3 large 28 ounce cans of baked beans vegetarian
- 1/4 cup Sriracha
- cracked pepper and sea salt your preference
Instructions
- Preheat your Dutch oven over medium heat with a nice drizzle of olive oil.
- While that is preheating, go ahead and dice up a large sweet or yellow onion.
- Mince up a few cloves of garlic, and mix with the diced onion in a bowl and set to the side.
- Put 1 pound of ground beef and 1 pound of sweet Italian sausage into your Dutch oven and start browning it up. While the meat is cooking, continue to chop and stir it all up until you get it broke down into smaller sized chunks using a heavy duty spatula.
- Add in about 1/4 cup of Worcestershire sauce and continue stirring and chopping the meat up.
- When the meat is nice and crumbly go ahead and mix in your onions. Stir it real good until it's all mixed together well. Reduce your heat down to medium low while we add the rest.
- Add in 2-12 ounce jars of chili sauce, 2 packets of Sazon, 1/4 cup of Sriracha, 3 large 28 ounce cans of vegetarian baked beans, and 2 tablespoons of brown sugar.
- Once you get all that in there, stir it really well. Make sure while you are stirring you use a longer handled utensil so you can dig down to the bottom and get all that juicy meat mixed back in up top. Stir it until everything look combined evenly.
- Crack some black (or mixed) peppercorns and sea salt on top generously. Turn your heat back up to medium and let your chili build back up to a nice simmer.
- Let it take its time and gradually build up heat (about 5 mins) while stirring occasionally. Once you see it simmering, go ahead and put the cover on and back the heat off one notch.
- Set a timer for 2 hours, stirring once or twice an hour or so. Keep it covered when you aren't stirring. After 2 hours, turn the heat down to low and serve.
- Top with your favorite toppings and enjoy!