Baked Beans With Sweet Potatoes and Chipotles

So good, easy and cheap! And as others have said, a great base that one can make changes to. I mostly followed the recipe but added a few carrots to compensate for having only one sweet potato, used brown rice syrup in place of honey, used black beans and added some andouille sausage. Big hit in my house and perfect for a chilly day!

I would use less honey and more spices next time. The dish was too sweet for me, and fairly bland given that beans and sweet potatoes are pretty bland vegetables. I ended up baking with a lid on the dish because the recipe was ambitious and they cooked right on time without too much liquid.

I absolutely love this. Ate it for a week! Used newish light colored pintos and should not have cooked it as long as recipe says. However, it still was fabulous

This was a huge family hit. I used the rancho gordo red beans, soaked overnight in the crockpot. I sautéed the onion and garlic on the stove and then added all ingredients right to the stockpot. It cooked on low for about 6 hours and was perfect. Beans and even potatoes still held their shape , and beans weren’t mushy at all. We ate them with a rice and quinoa blend as well as sautéed greens and a bit of sour cream and it was delicious!

Followed the recipe except for the chipotles which I added one at a time to my serving. Excellent. Served with some white Jasmine rice. Thought the various tastes were quite nuanced and subtle.

Didn’t t have chipotle peppers, used AZ Dreamin seasoning….lots, kidney beans ,black beans canned and one can dice tomatoes, Morningstar farms sausages. We shall see….

This is really substantive and appeals to both vegetarians and meat eaters.

If you simmer dry beans for 20 minutes in water with baking soda added that helps to break the down and cuts the cooking time significantly--no soaking needed.

I'd love to know if I can substitute canned beans instead of soaking beans overnight. If so, should I start at the second step in the instructions?

Delicious, but after 90 mins uncovered in the oven at (ultimately) 400 F, I still had essentially a thin-brothed bean soup. Did the liquid reduce for others? I strained the liquid and reduced it for tomorrow’s iteration, hopefully it will be more baked-beany. Great with freshly-baked Treacle Farls (Epicurious), a molasses-sweetened quickbread.

I've made this a couple of times, and I have not felt the need to use another pan to cook the onion and garlic. I sauté them in the Dutch oven before adding the beans (soaked in salted water). Then I cook the beans with the onion, garlic and bay leaf before adding the remaining ingredients and proceeding with the rest of the recipe as written. A delicious stick-to-your-ribs meal.

very good, next time i'll use more chipotles.

I thought this was absolutely delicious. I happened to have half a pound of RG San Franciscanos on hand; I cooked them 25 minutes unsoaked in the Instant Pot, followed the rest of the recipe (halved -- one sweet potato, one chipotle), and it is heavenly. Far more than one might expect from the short ingredient list.

This is going to be better tomorrow?!? Delicious immediatlly so I can't wait. I added two cups of beef stock (to run it out) with the additional water which you will need to add. I also used Rancho Gordo's Ayocote Morado beans as these are what I had on hand when I went looking for a recipe. Enjoy and Happy New Year.

Is the casserole covered or uncovered in the oven for the last hour or hour and half??