Instant Pot Maple Baked Beans

This Instant Pot maple baked beans recipe is the perfect way to make the classic side dish from scratch. It starts with dried beans and can still be made in a couple of hours with the help of a pressure cooker.

Maple bacon baked beans are the perfect side dish to BBQ, fried fish, burgers and more.  This is a great way to get a tasty and belly filling side dish put together that can feed a crowd. 

You start with dried beans and end up with a hearty dish people will want seconds of. Plus due to the magic of the pressure cooker, there is no soaking required!

Maple Bacon Baked Beans in the Instant Pot

It is rare that you go to a cookout or carry-in that doesn’t involve some sort of baked beans. They are a hearty and flavorful side dish.

To make them from scratch can take quite a bit of time though. You have to soak the beans, cook the beans, flavor the beans and then let it all cook together until the flavors have melded and the sauce has thickened.

Luckily you can speed up the process by using an instant pot! There is no soaking of the beans and the cooking goes much more quickly.

That’s right, you can have from scratch beans starting with a very economical bag of dried beans and turn it into flavorful baked beans in just a couple of hours. The best part is, most of that time is hands off!

Maple and bacon are the perfect flavor combination for baked beans

When building the sauce, you have a number of options.  You could go classic ketchup based sauce with plenty of brown sugar and you would have delicious beans.     

Baked beans are also delicious without ketchup or with very little. That helps the flavor of the maple syrup and bacon to shine through even more.

This time I thought it would be fun to go somewhere in the middle.  So the sauce it technically ketchup based, but that is not the full flavor profile.     

I used a bit of our favorite BBQ sauce to add a roundness to the ketchup.  Plus it does a lot of the seasoning work for you.     

The maple syrup adds that warm sweet depth of flavor.  The bacon adds that salty smokiness and the two work together in sweet harmony.       

In the end you have a thicker sauce that is loaded with flavor, none of which are overpowering. It is just enticing you to take another bite.

More great Instant Pot bean recipes:

• Ham and Beans in the Instant Pot
• Salsa Chicken {with Black Beans} in the Instant Pot
• Instant Pot Vegetarian Lentil Tortilla Soup

If you don’t have an Instant Pot, but still want to make great baked beans, make my grandma’s calico beans. They are fabulous and start with canned beans so the recipe is easy to make.

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Homemade Maple Bacon Baked Beans in the Instant Pot

Author: Carlee

Servings: 24 Servings

Baked beans are a classic side dish for good reason. This recipe flavors delicious baked beans with maple and bacon. They start with dried beans and can still be made in a couple of hours with the help of a pressure cooker.

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Prep: 15 minutes mins

Cook: 2 hours hrs

Total: 2 hours hrs 15 minutes mins

Ingredients 

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• ▢ 2 pounds dry navy beans pinto or great northern beans
• ▢ 2 teaspoons salt
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon baking soda
• ▢ ½ pound bacon
• ▢ 1 onion diced
• ▢ 1 bell pepper diced
• ▢ ¼ cup water
• ▢ 1 cup barbecue sauce
• ▢ ½ cup ketchup
• ▢ 3 Tablespoons spicy brown mustard
• ▢ ¼ cup apple cinder vinegar
• ▢ ¾ cup maple syrup

Instructions 

• Rinse the beans, then put in a 6 or 8 quart instant pot insert. Fill to the 2/3 full mark with water. Add salt and baking soda.
  2 pounds dry navy beans, 2 teaspoons salt, ¼ teaspoon baking soda
• Cook on high pressure for 25 minutes.  Let pressure release naturally for 15 minutes, then quick release.
• Drain beans in strainer and set aside.
• Chop bacon into small pieces. Turn instant pot to saute and add bacon to the pot.  Cook until it starts getting crispy, stirring frequently.
  ½ pound bacon
• Drain most of the grease, leaving about 1 Tablespoon. Add diced onion and pepper, cooking until tender.
  1 onion, 1 bell pepper
• Add water, scraping the bottom of the pan to get all of the bits up. 
  ¼ cup water
• Add bbq sauce, ketchup, mustard, vinegar and syrup. Stir to combine. 
  1 cup barbecue sauce, ½ cup ketchup, 3 Tablespoons spicy brown mustard, ¼ cup apple cinder vinegar, ¾ cup maple syrup
• Add beans and stir to coat.
• Turn instant pot to slow cook and cook for at least 1/2 hour. 

Notes

Pinto or great northern beans also work in this recipe.

Adding the baking soda to the water with the beans helps to soften the beans while they cook.

 

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Nutrition Information

Serving: 1Serving | Calories: 164kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 9mg | Sodium: 525mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 12g

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