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Baked Beans with Bacon and Brown Sugar

Ingredients

  • 1 (14- to 15-ounce) can crushed tomatoes in thick purée
  • 1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 (19-ounce) cans small white beans, rinsed and drained (4 cups)
  • 1 medium onion, cut crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices
  • 6 bacon slices (1/4 pound)

Instructions

  1. Put oven rack in upper third of oven and preheat oven to 400°F.
  2. Stir together tomatoes, brown sugar, mustard, and salt in a bowl. Gently stir in beans and transfer to a 2-quart shallow baking dish.
  3. Arrange onion slices in 1 layer over beans, then cover onion with bacon.
  4. Bake, uncovered, until bacon is browned and beans have absorbed most of liquid, about 1 1/4 hours.

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