Maple Cheddar Beans

Discover our Maple Baked BBQ Beans with Vintage Cheddar.
Maple BBQ baked beans topped with grated vintage Cheddar in a terracotta dish

Looking to mix up your classic Full English Breakfast or would you like a new BBQ accompaniment? We've got you! 

Our Maple baked BBQ Beans with cheddar can be baked in a deep frying pan on the BBQ, or on the hob and are a great side dish to make early and reheat when you need them. This recipe uses a Davidstow Vintage Cheddar Cobble (but you may substitute to another Vintage Cheddar,) which is a beautifully aged cheddar with an intensely strong flavour including both sweet and savoury notes and deliciously crumbly texture. 

Maple BBQ cheddar bean ingredients: black-waxed Davidstow cheddar, butter beans, smoked sausage, onion, garlic, stock and paprika

Ingredients 

- 200g (or more) Vintage Cheddar

- 400g Butter beans

- 160g Smoked sausage sliced

1 onion, finely sliced

- 3 garlic cloves, chopped

- 2 tbsp tomato puree

- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard

- 1 tbsp vinegar

- 2 tbsp maple syrup

- 280ml chicken stock

- 1 tsp smoked paprika

- Salt and Pepper to taste

Method

Drizzle oil into pan, and turn to a medium heat, saute smoked sausage, onion and garlic together until browned.

Sliced smoked sausage and onion frying in a pan for the maple BBQ cheddar beans

Add in paprika, tomato puree, mustard and vinegar and cook for a further two minutes. Then add maple syrup, butter beans, chicken stock and season with salt and pepper. Bring to the boil, cover with a lid and turn the heat down, simmer for half an hour. 

Butter beans, sausage and onion simmering in a thick tomato sauce in the pan

Now the sauce has thickened, if you’re serving immediately, then stir in the grated cheddar and you’re done! If you’re serving later then put the pan to one side and stir in cheddar just before reheating.

Maple BBQ cheddar beans with smoked sausage in a terracotta dish, topped with grated cheddar

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