Spicy Bacon & Baked Bean Casserole is a delicious, budget friendly dish. Perfect for a midweek family meal as so quick and easy to make!
It’s funny how you can forget about recipes over the years and this is one of those which my mum always used to make which I had completely forgotten about until recently.
I think it started off life as a bacon recipe card. I have made a few tweaks to this Mexican style dish, including adding baked beans instead of mixed beans which gives it greater “kid appeal” and also makes for a better sauce.
The chillies in the dish give a gentle warmth that won’t put children off but if you wanted to pep things up then you could always add some of the chilli seeds!
Since re-discovering this dish we have had it almost every week as it is so quick and easy and relies on store-cupboard ingredients, bacon and a green pepper which most of us have in our fridges!
I also keep a stock of fresh chillies in my freezer as they are so easy to use from frozen and can often be found reduced in the vegetable aisle!
Having a dish that the whole family likes is a real bonus as my family seem to have quite different tastes!
This is my new fall back dish for when I haven’t had time to plan the evening meal and I need dinner in a hurry.
I do hope you try my Spicy Bacon and Baked Bean Casserole as I’m sure you’ll be making it again and again like me!
This recipe for Spicy Bacon & Bake Bean Casserole was previously published on Great British Chefs!
More Dinner Recipes using Bacon
- Bacon & Potato Layer Bake
- Skinny Haddock, Mushroom & Bacon Chowder
- Bacon Roly Poly
- Warm Chicken, Bacon & Tarragon Salad
- Flavours of Brazil Turkey Burgers with Bacon & Pineapple
- Chilli, Bacon & Chickpea Pasta
- Bacon, Leek & Pine Nut Pasta
- Bacon, Mushroom & Pea Linguine
- Spaghetti alla Carbonara
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Spicy Bacon & Baked Bean Casserole
Ingredients
- 1 Large onion finely chopped
- 1 Green pepper diced
- 3 Mixed chilli peppers de-seeded and finely chopped
- 1 tbsp Rapeseed oil
- 210 g Unsmoked back bacon chopped
- 400 g Tin chopped tomatoes
- 400 g Tin baked beans
- Freshly ground pepper
- 75 g Mature Cheddar grated
Instructions
- Fry the onion, green pepper and chillies in oil on a medium heat for about 8 minutes until softened.
- Add the bacon and fry until cooked.
- Add the tomatoes and baked beans, cover and simmer gently for 5 minutes.
- Season with pepper.
- Transfer to an oven proof dish, sprinkle with grated Cheddar and brown under a grill.
- Serve with rice.
Paul Wilson
Looks delicious.
Anne Dalzell
Another really well photographed, appealing recipe. Never lose your enthusiasm for this. x
Camilla
Aaw, thank you Anne, what a lovely thing to say:-) I’ve been enthusiastic about cooking, food & nutrition ever since school so don’t see it going away any time soon:-)
Tracy Nixon
This looks delicious!
Abigail Cullen
Love bacon and baked beans, what a great idea to add together as a recipe for a casserole.
Camilla
Thanks, they do work really well together;-)
Ursula Hunt
Very Hearty and filling meal
Florence Cross
What a simple & delicious looking recipe. Well worth trying out.
Camilla
Thank you:-)
William Gould
Yum! I love beans and l this looks great for a quick and easy midweek meal!
Maddy
(Don’t know if my comment went through.)
Was thinking of making it without bacon for veggie daughter. Has anyone tried it?
Camilla
I think it would be best with veggie bacon as otherwise would be lacking in flavour but I’ve not tried so maybe it would be OK?
Maddy
Could do this without the bacon for veggie daughter
Jayne T
Fantastic recipe, perfect for a quick meal.