Tasty Slow Cooker Beans & Sausages

I made this for dinner the other night and Steve & I adored it. SO easy and delicious. I used Penzey's Chili 3000 for the seasoning and it was just great. This was unbelievable. If you want it really hot, add a hot barbecue sauce instead of making the sauce that they give you. If you want it milder, than do what the recipe says. I used a really spicy barbecue sauce I had leftover in the refrigerator. Soooo good.

Slow Cooker BBQ Beans & Sausage

3 cups chicken broth
1 cup bbq sauce*
2 tbsp barbecue seasoning**
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1 lb dry navy beans, picked over
2 cloves
1 small onion, halved
1.5 lb chicken sausages, halved lengthwise
2 tbsp cider vinegar
1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
garnishes:
chopped jalapeno
chopped scallions
dollop Light Sour Cream

Whisk broth and barbecue sauce together. Add barbecue seasoning and garlic. Mix well. Add to slow cooker. Add beans. Push a clove into each piece of onion and add
to beans. Cover and cook on HIGH for 4-6 hours until beans are tender. Could be up to 6 hours.

Discard onion and cloves. Stir in vinegar and worcestershire sauce. Let the mixture sit, uncovered, about 15 minutes. The longer the beans sit, the more flavorful they will
be.

Garnish with jalapenos, scallions and sour cream.

Risa's notes:

* I used a really hot barbecue sauce instead of creating the sauce in the pot. If you follow the real directions, add the following ingredients to a bowl and then to the
crock: 1/3 cup tomato paste, 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar, 3 tbsp molasses, 3 tbsp honey mustard, and then the barbecue seasoning and garlic.

** I used Penzeys Barbecue 3000.

Serves 6
adapted from Food Network Magazine, Aug/Sept 09
Posted by RisaG 8/24/09