Best Ham & Beans Crock-Pot
This is what you’ve bean waiting for, a classic ham and bean recipe! Ham it up, because all you have to do is throw everything in the crock pot and take the credit for such a delicious dinner. Serve with fresh cornbread, biscuits or sweet rolls.
Ingredients
- 4 (2 lbs) dry Great Northern beans
- 4 onions
- 3 tablespoon(s) minced garlic
- 32 ounce(s) (one large) smoked ham bone
- 32 ounce(s) extra smoked ham
- 1 dash salt to taste
- 1 teaspoon(s) black pepper to taste
Instructions
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The first step is to get 2 lb of good Great Northern Beans and make sure that you sort through them for any that don’t meet standards.
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This starts the night before.
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Once sorted, put the dry beans in a large bowl preferably shallow that you can cover the beans with twice much water as they take up.
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After a couple of hours, stir before bed.
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In the morning, quarter 3-4 onions, about 2 inches in diameter.
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Prepare garlic so that you have about 2-3 tbsp minced, and make sure you have a good ham bone with at least 2 cups of meat and all of the other goodies associated with a good bone in smoked ham.
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If you don’t have a ham bone with that much meat on it, add diced in large chunks smoked ham.
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Put ham bone and any additional ham in bottom of 6 quarts crock-pot, put in onion and garlic, then rinse the soaked beans at least twice before adding to the crock-pot salt and pepper to taste.
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Add water to cover the contents.
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Cover and turn crock-pot on “auto” or set timer to “high” for the first 2 hours and then on “low”.
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Keep on “low” and covered for 8 hours then check to see tenderness of beans.
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Best if half of the beans are tender to the point that they form a mash and the rest are mostly whole but tender.
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Ready in 10 hours.
Nutrition
Calories: 3755.1kcalCarbohydrates: 440.88gProtein: 453.08gFat: 107.85gSaturated Fat: 32.23gCholesterol: 960mgSodium: 18519.76mgFiber: 216.06gSugar: 61.33g
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