A good, old-fashioned comfort food meal, made easy in the slow cooker!
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- 1 15 oz can Great Northern Beans rinsed and drained (See notes on beans)
- 1 15 oz can black beans rinsed and drained
- 1 15 oz can red kidney beans rinsed and drained
- 1 15 oz can butter beans or lima beans rinsed and drained
- 1 1/2 cups ketchup see notes
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1 green pepper chopped (optional, I leave out!)
- 1 pound cooked smoked sausage cut into 1/2" slices
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
Ingredients
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- Combine all ingredients in slow cooker. Cover.
- Cook on low 9 to 10 hours, or on high 4 to 5 hours.
Stacy's Notes - I have been making this since 2003, and have made it several different ways. I'm convinced this is a recipe you cannot mess up! I have used different varieties of beans (canned Great Northern, Black, Kidney, Green Beans, canned and frozen lima beans, etc) I have used deer sausage, and also store-bought smoked sausage, and we much prefer the store-bought smoked link style sausage, cut into 1/2 inch slices. I usually use a turkey smoked sausage, like Healthy Choice or Ekrich, and it works great.
I have cooked this on low all day, on Hi for a few hours and then turned to low, but never just on High for a couple of hours, but I'm sure it would work. I have tried serving this over white, brown and wild rice, but Tim is not fond of it over rice, although I like it. He much prefers cornbread, so I make a pan of cornbread or Jiffy cornbread muffins for him now. 🙂
Recently, I have discovered that Kroger (and probably other places) sell a can of mixed beans, or a bean blend. At Kroger, they are labeled "Tri Bean Blend", and so I just use 2 cans of those, since it's just the two of us. Since I am just using 2 cans of beans, I have now cut the ketchup back to one cup, from the original 1 1/2 cups. It makes a much more manageable size for us, but still with plenty of leftovers for extra meals. I have honestly never frozen the leftovers, so I don't know if that works or not. We just eat them for lunches or another meal until they are gone!
This is NOT gourmet by any stretch of the imagination, it's just good, hearty, comforting food. It doesn't look great, but it tastes fabulous!
Enjoy!
Going to try the sausage & beans in crockpot tomorrow.
Hey Jerry! I’m beyond elated to see you on here and find a comment from you guys! How awesome, thank you! The beans and sausage are just good comfort food, and Tim loves to have it over cornbread 🙂 Also, I’m sure you have had (or heard of) Crockpot Chicken Santa Fe at Gail’s house, that one is also here on the website, and a video for it at our YouTube channel. That is probably my favorite one, and I know Gail and Don love it too 🙂 Please let me know if this works for you guys, and have a wonderful and blessed day! — Stacy