Cowboy Beans Rice Recipes

COWBOY BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a Dutch oven, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Stir in the remaining ingredients. Transfer to a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. Bake, uncovered, until heated through, 50-60 minutes.

MEXICAN RICE AND BEANS

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large Dutch oven. Add the garlic, green onions and jalapeno and cook for 3 to 4 minutes. Reduce the heat to low and add the rice. Cook, stirring to make sure the rice doesn't burn, about 3 minutes. Add the chicken broth, cumin, salt, pepper, turmeric, beans, diced tomatoes and diced tomatoes and green chiles and stir together. Bring the mixture to a boil, then reduce the heat to low. Cover and simmer until the rice is not quite done, about 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Top the rice and beans with the cheese, then bake with the lid off until the cheese is melted and the rice is fully cooked, about 15 minutes more. Top with chopped cilantro before serving.

EASY CROCK POT COWBOY BEANS

Steps:

• Cook your bacon over medium heat on your stove until crisp, drain and crumble
• In a different skillet, brown your beef and sausage over medium heat
• Toss your onion in with your meat mixture and cook until the onions are tender, drain
• Put your meat and onion mixture and your bacon in your crock pot
• Pour your undrained pork and beans, undrained pinto or chili beans and the rest of your ingredients to your crock pot
• Give it all a gentle stir
• Cover and cook on high for an hour. After an hour reduce heat to low and cook, covered, for an additional 2-4 hours
• Give it a taste and adjust any seasonings to match your preferences

ONE SKILLET COWBOY RICE

Steps:

• Heat skillet over medium heat. Add the chopped bacon and stir occasionally until bacon is crisp. Using a slotted spoon, remove the cooked bacon to a paper towel lined plate. Set cooked bacon aside.
• Add the chopped onion to the bacon grease in the skillet. Cook for a few minutes until the onion is starting to soften.
• Add the ground sirloin and cook until no longer pink, breaking up the beef with a wooden spoon or spatula.
• Add the corn, Zatarain's Black Beans and Rice Mix and the water to the skillet with the cooked onion and ground sirloin.
• Bring the water to a boil. Reduce heat so the skillet contents are gently simmering. Put the lid on the skillet and cook for 25 minutes, or until rice is tender.
• While the rice mixture is cooking, turn the oven to the broil setting.
• When rice is cooked, remove the lid from the skillet and top the cowboy rice skillet with the shredded cheese.
• Put the skillet under the broiler for a couple of minutes to melt the cheese.
• Top the skillet with the cooked bacon, sour cream and pickled jalapeños and serve immediately.

COWBOY BEANS & RICE

Steps:

• Cook meat and onions in skillet, stirring to brown and crumble meat, drain off any grease.
• Combine meat mixture, rice water, chili powder, salt, beans, tomato juice & chili peppers; stir well.
• Pour in to a 3-quart casserole dish,.
• Cover and bake at 350°F for 50 minutes.
• Stir and cover and bake again for and additional 30 minutes, or until rice is tender.

COWBOY BAKED BEANS RECIPE (OVEN OR SLOW COOKER)

Steps:

• Decide if you are going to make them in a slow cooker or bake in the oven. You can use a deep casserole dish or large pot like a dutch oven. I like a large heavy cast iron pot so I can cook in it and finish baking all in one. Slow cookers are great for parties to keep them warm for several hours.
• Chop the sliced uncooked bacon into small pieces, over medium heat, brown the bacon in a heavy cast-iron skillet or a large cast iron dutch oven on the stove top using a wooden spoon. Tip, you can cut the bacon into small pieces with clean kitchen scissors right into the pot-I find this faster!
• Remove the crispy cooked bacon to a small bowl with a slotted spoon. Don't remove the bacon drippings from the pan. Next add the chopped onion and brown for 5-6 minutes until translucent, add the minced garlic, stir for one minute.
• Next, brown the ground beef, cook for 6-8 minutes. Next, add the bacon, back in with the cooked ground beef, onion, and garlic.
• Next, add 3 cans of baked beans (don't drain), 2 cans of kidney beans (drain), 1 can of cannellini beans (drain), and 2 cans of black beans (drain).
• Add the remaining ingredients; brown sugar, cider vinegar, ketchup, and yellow mustard. Stir all the ingredients well to combine.
• Place into the slow cooker or large dutch oven or large deep casserole dish. The baked beans usually doesn't all fit in one standard 9 x 13, you need a deeper dish.
• Cook in slow cooker crockpot on low for 2 hours OR bake 350 degrees for 1 1/2 hours in a large covered dish. Serve hot.

SLOW COOKER COWBOY BEANS

Steps:

• Add the bacon to a large non-stick skillet, and fry until crispy- stirring as needed.
• Add the ground beef & diced onion to the skillet. Cook until the ground beef is browning, breaking/crumbling up as it cooks.
• Drain the mixture of any excess grease, and add the prepared beef mixture to the bowl of your slow cooker.
• Pour the (undrained) pork & beans into the bowl of your slow cooker, then add the other beans that have all been drained & rinsed.
• In a separate mixing bowl, whisk together the sugars, ketchup, vinegar, & mustard until smooth. Stir this into the beef and bean mixture until evenly incorporated.
• Season with salt & pepper, to taste.
• Cover and cook the beans on low for 4-5 hours.
• Stir, serve, & enjoy!

HOMESTEAD COWBOY BEANS

Steps:

• Place bacon in a large skillet and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned and crispy, 10 to 12 minutes. Drain bacon slices on paper towels and crumble when cool enough to handle.
• At the same time, heat another large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir ground beef in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain and discard grease.
• Place bacon, ground beef, onion, ketchup, and brown sugar in a slow cooker; mix well. Add baked beans, Great Northern beans, pinto beans, and pork and beans.
• Cook on Low, stirring often, about 4 hours.

COWBOY BEANS

Steps:

• Soak the beans overnight in lots of cold water. (Most recently, I have been using the Cook's Illustrated recommended method, soaking the beans in 4 qts water mixed with 3 tbl. table salt). Drain off the soaking water and rinse.
• Put beans in a very large pot. Pour in the beer and enough fresh water to come up 2 inches over the beans. Add remaining ingredients except salt. Cover, heat to a boil, reduce heat to very low - just enough to bubble the liquid a little. Simmer until beans are tender, 2 to 3 hours.
• If using ham hocks, remove, discard bones, chop and return to pot. Add salt to taste.
• Note1: I've noted the comment regarding the time - I made this again, and it took me just under two hours to get to tender beans. It is important to soak the beans well, and older beans may take longer. The beans should be tender but whole - they should not start breaking down.