Buddy's BBQ Beans

 These beans are the best you will ever taste!  This recipe is an adaptation from my BBQ King, Uncle Buddy's recipe.  It can be used as a meal with tortillas or eaten as a fantastic side dish for any summer BBQ.  Smoking the beans on the smoker grill is what puts these over the top.  If you don't have a smoker grill, preparing them on stove in your kitchen will not diminish them at all.  You can use any beans you like for this recipe.  The ones I have listed below are my family's favorites.  Try adding navy beans too for more bean variety. 

Equipment:
Can Opener
8 Qt stock pot or dutch oven for the grill
Long handled wooden spoon
Cutting Board
Good Chef's Knife
Mesh Strainer
Mixing bowls and prep bowls

Ingredients:
1/2 15oz bottle A-1 Steak Sauce
1 can black beans
1 can pinto beans
1 can red kidney beans
1 can garbanzo beans
2-3 cloves minced garlic
1 whole white onion
1 green pepper
3 stalks of celery
1 10 oz can Rotel tomatoes-Hot
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup ketchup
1/4 cup Worcestershire Sauce
1/2 T mustard powder
1/4 t turmeric powder-available in the spice section of your local grocery store.
(optional) 1/4 lb ground pork
(optional) 1/4 lb ground hamburger with bacon-for locals, Don's Meats carries this meat.  If you don't have access to the hamburger where you are then use 1 chub Jimmy Dean ground breakfast sausage in place of both meats.  You can also smoke some ribs or a brisket on the smoker and use that meat for the beans too. 

Procedure:  All of the ingredients need to be prepped and ready to go before you begin cooking anything.  If you are going to put the beans on the grill, then have the grill heated up and ready to go too. 
1.  Drain and rinse all of the beans and set them aside in a bowl and take the lid off the can of tomatoes; leave them in the can and set aside.

2.  Dice the vegetables into 1/4 inch pieces and set aside. Mince the garlic and set it aside.
3.  Measure into your prep bowls and set aside the brown sugar, worcestershire sauce, mustard powder, ketchup, turmeric, and ketchup.
4.  Measure the meat and set aside.
Time to cook:
5.  Heat the pot to a medium temperature and put the onion, pepper, celery and meat in to cook.  Cook it for about 7-8 minutes until the veggies look 1/2 way cooked and the meat looks almost cooked through.  If you are using already smoked meat then it should be heated through.

6.  Add the turmeric, garlic, and mustard powder and mix until you can smell the fragrance from the oils in the spices.  This should take 30 seconds to 1 minute.

7.  Add the brown sugar, ketchup, worcestershire sauce, tomatoes, and A-1 and mix into vegetable mixture.  Let it come to a simmer stirring occasionally to prevent sticking on the bottom of the pan.

8.  Add all the beans in and stir until they are well incorporated.
9.  Let them simmer on the stove for about 5 minutes before putting them on the grill to smoke.
10.  If you are not smoking them then let them simmer for 15 minutes to allow all of the flavors to come together.
11.  If you are smoking them, let them sit on the smoker for 15-20 minutes stirring twice to make sure the smoke flavor is working into all the beans.
12.  Serve hot as a side or on tortillas as a burrito.