Cowboy Baked Beans. Baked cowboy beans are a perennial favorite at barbecues and potlucks. My meaty recipe uses a variety of beans and has a perfect smoky taste. —Joe Sherwood, Tryon, Nebraska. Cowboy Beans are a great side dish for potlucks, parties and barbecues.

The perfect side dish recipe for BBQ, potlucks and parties. An easy baked bean recipe with loads of flavor! Cowboy beans (also known as chuckwagon beans) is a bean dish popular in the southwestern United States. You can cook Cowboy Baked Beans using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Cowboy Baked Beans

You need 1 stick of smoked sausage, diced.
It's 1 of small pkg diced ham (about one cup) or cut your own.
It's 2 (32 ounce) of cans beans including liquid.
You need 1/2 of small onion.
You need 1/4 cup of Brown sugar.
It's 2 tbs of ketchup.
It's 2 tbs of barbeque sauce.
It's 1 tbs of mustard.
You need 1/2 pound of bacon.

The dish consists of pinto beans and ground beef in a sweet and tangy sauce. Other types of meat can be used. The flavor is similar to baked beans but with a southwestern twist. This easy baked Cowboy Beans recipe is hearty and flavorful with bacon and ground beef.

Cowboy Baked Beans step by step

Mix all ingredients together in a pan except bacon..
Cook on top of stove until onions are soft, about 20 -30 minutes..
Pour in baking dish sprayed with no-stick spray, top with bacon strips and bake at 350° for about 45 minutes or until the beans are no longer soupy..
It the bacon strips are not done enough, turn on broiler for a couple of minutes..

Sometimes all a dish needs is a fun name to get kids to try it. These Calico beans or Cowboy Beans are not chili but can be treated like a chili would. We called it "Cowboy baked beans." The only difference in my recipe is to substitute a can of kernel corn with. Slow-cooked cowboy beans with pinto beans, ham hocks, barbecue sauce, and coffee. Great accompaniment to a summer barbecue.