Baked Beans With Sweet Potatoes and Chipotles Recipe (2024)

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

Regular old pedestrian pintos (brined overnight) work great. This is currently resting in the fridge for a day but I tasted it as it was cooling and some kind of magical alchemy happened in my kitchen tonight. After adding the onions to the beans, I heated the remaining oil and gave the tomato paste/honey/chipotle mixture a few minutes to open up before adding it as well. I can't say how it compares to the recipe as written, but I can say you won't be disappointed.

One of my favorite recipes here. This recipe is a wonderful base that can be built off of in lots of different directions. I am not vegetarian so i augment with some sausage. cook some bacon and saute the onions and garlic in the bacon fat instead of olive oil to add a different note.

Second time we've made it. I used small red beans (do not like pinto) and cooked them in pressure cooker (my preferred technique for cooking beans). I keep chipotles in freezer ( individually wrapped in waxed paper) and couldn't remove seeds. Not sure honey is needed, but final taste was not too sweet. Instead of adding salt, I used "better than bouillon" as my salt/umani addition. We'll eat this again.

Used Rancho Gordo's Eye of the Goat beans, served it to someone who doesn't particularly like beans and hates sweet potato because I like long odds, and he asked that we throw this into regular rotation. Rich flavor. Big win!

This was delicious - much more flavorful than I expected it would be given the relatively small ingredient list. I used two unseeded chipotles and didn't think it was too spicy at all - I actually added more chipotle hot sauce at the table. Make note that the recipe gives a specific volume of soaking water as this ends up being the cooking water as well. I skimmed over that part and ended up with way too much water so I had to ladle some out after boiling.

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.

This is delicious food. I used the San Franciscano beans from Rancho Gordo and followed the recipe as presented. I will be making this again.

I was concerned about the comment that it was bland mush. Not at all the case - did the fully cooking time used dried beans. Would put this in the regular rotation.

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??