Canned Beans Recipes

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Canned Beans Recipes

I can’t say it often enough, I love having home canned beans in my pantry! They make for some quick, filling, and healthy meals that don’t take much effort to get on the table.

If you haven’t checked it out already, you will first want to start on my posts about Canning Pinto Beans, Canning Seasoned Beans, and Canning Pork and Beans.

Canned Beans Recipes

The beans we can the most often at our house are Pinto Beans. They are pretty basic so I can use them for many different dishes. Here are some of our favorite canned beans recipes that we enjoy making with our home canned goods!

Loaded Baked Potatoes

Boil potatoes (or cook in the crockpot) until soft. Caramelize onions in a frying pan with a little butter. Warm up a can of beans on the stove top. Top your cooked potato with the beans and onions and a bit of shredded cheese and sour cream. You can also add other toppings like fresh tomatoes or anything you have on hand that you think will taste good. This is a very filling meal!

Bean Bowls

This isn’t much of a recipe than an idea but it makes for a super simple and quick lunch! Warm up a can of beans on the stove top, place in a bowl and top with melted cheese.

Bean Burritos

Use home canned beans in the place of refried beans in Bean Burritos.

Chili

Make an easy batch of chili with your home canned beans! Add a can of beans and a pound of cooked hamburger to the slow cooker along with a quart jar of canned stewed tomatoes. Add in chili powder and water until the chili has your desired level of “hotness” and consistency and then cook in the slow cooker for at least 4-6 hours.

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Canned Beans Recipes

Taco Salad

I love a good taco salad topped with whatever fresh produce I have on hand! Start by placing some tortilla chips on a plate, top the chips with cooked ground beef and a warmed up can of beans. Top that with cheese, lettuce, salsa, sour cream (Get cultures to make your own Sour Cream here), avocados, or any other toppings that you love on a taco.

Baked Beans Side Dish

For a simple side dish, add a bit of brown sugar into the canned Pinto Beans or canned Pork and Beans when warming on the stove top. Cook until all the sugar has melted into the beans and serve as a sweet baked beans side dish with hamburgers, steaks, or other summertime foods.

As you can see, canned beans make for some super easy meals! I love keeping them in the pantry at all times for some quick go-to meals on the nights when I just don’t feel like making anything special or just don’t have time to cook a regular meal.

These are just a few of our favorite meals that we make with our home canned beans, what do you like to make with yours?

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17 Comments

  1. Canning is very new to me. At 58, I have never known anyone who cans, except for the “country” moms of my childhood friends. I wonder if it’s more of a regional thing?

    I cook and freeze 6 kinds of beans in advance for use in our many vegan recipes. I couldn’t understand why you would want to can beans and then go back and have to complete the cooking process for each meal. After following your links to older posts, I see that the pressure canner actually completes the cooking process so that you don’t have to cook it again once you open the can. Silly me! I guess all your other readers knew that. Thanks for all you do to educate us in simple, thrifty ways.

  2. This was the solution to a total panic scenario in one of my what-can-I-make-for-dinner-when-2-hungry-kids-are-staring-at-me? I had forgotten to take anything out that morning and was too tired to go to the store.
    I had some leftover taco meat but not enough for tacos. So I mixed it with a big can of pork and beans, made some simple dumplings for the top, and put it on the stove covered until the dumplings were cooked.
    Kids loved it, so I served it once a week. They now make these “betsey’s beans” for their own families.

  3. I also love to cut sausage into bite sized pieces, fry them until golden, then add a can of beans to heat. We call them “cowboy beans” and love them! Thanks for your recipes!

  4. I love having beans in the pantry! On those days when I can’t figure out what to fix for dinner, I know I can grab a can of beans and fix a great recipe.
    Thanks for sharing at the In and Out of the Kitchen Link Party!

  5. Oh wow, I think I may try canning my own baked beans this year. Great ideas!! Thanks for sharing at Simple Supper Tuesday.

  6. Hi Merissa:
    This is a fun site- my first time here! Love the ideas for recipes with canned beans. I am a huge fan of beans and am always looking for fun ideas to use them! Thanks so much for sharing this fun post on #SmallVictoriesSunday!

  7. I love soaking my pintos/white bean mix, the night before, then rinse them well the next morning. I place them in my crock pot and cook them on slow all day (about 8 -10 hrs.) with some ham or ham bone. They just need stirring now and then, and they DO taste fine. It beats heating up the kitchen and standing over the beans, making sure they do not stick.

  8. Merissa,
    I have been following your blog through your home reno & living full time in an RV (we did the same thing!!) for a while now. I have loved keeping up on what your family is up to.
    Through following your blog (and several others) I decided to start one of my own! My husband, son and I recently moved from Florida to Puerto Rico and I wanted to journal this adventure that we are on. Today I was posting a recipe on a link up party (attempting to get some traffic) and your canned bean post caught my eye but I didn’t realize that it was a LHL post.
    I’m rambling at this point but I was glad that I ran across your post because I feel like maybe I am doing something right in this new adventure of blogging. 🙂
    Please stop by if you have a minute!!
    Ashley @ LeavingTheRut

  9. I love beans, and I’ve had them every way you mention except for on a baked potato. I have to try that soon, thanks for sharing!

  10. What a great post – I seem to only use beans in soups and chili so this is great. Thanks again much for linking up on the Cook it! Craft it! Share it! link party last week! I’m now following you all around 🙂
    Ang

  11. We haven’t gotten around to canning beans yet — I did learn how to do them in the pressure cooker recently though. Thanks for sharing at Happiness is Homemade 🙂

  12. Great ideas! Thanks for linking up to Sweet and Savoury Sunday, stop by and link up again. Have a great weekend!!

  13. a great bean recipe that my guys luv is one can chili beans, one can pinto beans and half a pound of hamburger meat. warm and serve. if yours likes a little sweeter taste and to make more frugal I’ve substituted the chili bean with pork and beans.

  14. I grow and can cranberry beans.Can do all the same rec. with them. Sometimes you can even eat them right out of thr jar with a little salt and pepper they are so delicious

  15. Fry one pound ground beef, add one large onion and cook in the beef until carmelized add salt and pepper to taste add one TBS dark brown sugar then one quart canned pinto beans We call these hobo beans!