Side dishes · Beans & legumes

Baked beans

Name: Baked beans
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 90 min
Total time: 105 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 3 cans canned navy beans, drained and rinsed; 6 slices bacon, chopped; 1 yellow onions, diced; 1/2 cup ketchup; 3 tbsp molasses; 2 tbsp packed brown sugar; 1 tbsp Dijon mustard; 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar; 1 cup water; 1/2 tsp salt

Cookout artillery from scratch: navy beans in a molasses-tomato sauce with bacon, baked until the top candies. Sweeter than people admit — now with the number attached.

Time: 105 min (15 prep + 90 cook)
Servings: 8
Per serving: 226 kcal
Protein: 11 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

3 cans canned navy beans, drained and rinsed720 g
6 slices bacon, chopped90 g
1 yellow onions, diced150 g
1/2 cup ketchup120 g
3 tbsp molasses60 g
2 tbsp packed brown sugar30 g
1 tbsp Dijon mustard15 g
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar15 g
1 cup water240 g
1/2 tsp salt3 g

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Steps

Crisp the bacon in an oven-safe pot; soften the onion in the fat.
Stir in everything else.
Bake uncovered at 160°C for 75–90 minutes, stirring once, until the sauce is thick and the top edge caramelizes.
Rest 10 minutes; the sauce tightens as it cools. Better tomorrow, like everything in this family.

Why this score

moderately filling

No single route carries this one — a moderate amount of protein, volume and fiber.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

19% of kcal

68% water

22 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 1806 kcal goes into the pot, 1443 g of ingredients comes out as ~1300 g of food → 139 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 139
Protein: (19%); 7 g
Fat: (22%); 3 g
Carbohydrates: (59%); 20 g
of which sugar: 9 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sodium: 424 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.