The BEST Baked Beans! Yellowstone Baked Beans Recipe

Yellowstone Baked Beans Recipe: Easy and Delicious!
These baked beans are also called “Roosevelt Beans,” as they are famously served at the Roosevelt Lodge in Yellowstone National Park. In this video, Uncle Scott makes a big batch in a Le Creuset dutch oven and spins a few yarns about the good old days of working in Yellowstone National Park, including time at Mammoth Hot Springs and Old Faithful, a bear story from Roosevelt Lodge, and a few crazy Yellowstone tourist stories too. These beans are a great side dish for a summer barbecue or a cold, snowy, winter day. Give them a try and decide if these are the BEST BAKED BEANS EVER… let us know in the comments section below!

Yellowstone (Roosevelt) Baked Beans Recipe
Ingredients
– 1 lb. bacon
– 1 lb. sausage (spicy or regular, or beef)
– 1 medium to large onion, chopped
– 1/2 cup brown sugar
– 1/2 cup ketchup
– 2 tbsp. mustard (I use yellow, some use spicy)
– 2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar
– 1 large can Pork & Beans
– 1 can kidney beans
– 1 can lima beans
– 1 can butter beans
– 1 can great northern beans
– salt, pepper, cayenne, and garlic powder to taste

Directions
1. Chop and brown bacon & sausage in a dutch oven, soften onion when they are close to browned
2. Mix flavor ingredients well (ketchup, mustard, vinegar, brown sugar, spices)
3. To the dutch oven with the meat mix, add the beans and flavor ingredients and mix well
4. Bake at 325F for at least an hour
5. Chow down

Variations: You can use a frying pan for the meat and mix everything together in a big mixing bowl and transfer it to a baking dish or crock pot. You can use beef instead of sausage. You can leave out the meat and serve these as a side; with the meat they can be served as a main. You can use less bacon and sausage (but boy are they delicious!).

Estimated calories in the ENTIRE recipe: 6,250. If you get 15 bowls, 415 calories per bowl.

Official “Secret” Recipe on Xanterra website: https://www.xanterra.com/content/uploads/2021/12/XAN200-260-May-2021-V4.pdf

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Let’s make some Yellowstone baked beans also known as Roosevelt beans hi guys and welcome to Uncle Scott’s kitchen today we’re going to make some of the best baked beans you’ve ever eaten let’s jump in and get started what makes this recipe delicious is that the first ingredient is

Bacon a pound of bacon any recipe that begins with a pound of bacon you know it’s going to be good also has uh pork sausage has onions and it has lots of canned beans and I will put the full recipe below and I should not this is

Kind of my Twist on the recipe they use in Yellowstone it used to be kind of a secret I used to work in Yellowstone back in the day I spent probably 2 years or more actually in the park working and they used to service Roosevelt beans at

The employee dining room actually one of the dishes they would serve there that you would actually want want to eat for the employees uh but now the company that runs the concession a there in Yellowstone actually publishes it on their website so I’ll put a link to the

Quote unquote official recipe below this is my Twist on it and my twist is mainly adding a lot more bacon and a lot more sausage so let’s go ahead and get the lake rusay heating Up now while that is preheating let’s quickly run through the ingredient list here I’m using a pound of bacon and a pound of pork sausage um hot Jimmy Dean pork sausage the uh the original recipe says you could also substitute hamburger or beef instead of that pork sausage and

Being from Yellowstone why isn’t it Buffalo you can get ground buffalo at the supermarket I don’t know but I’m using bacon and sausage in mine then I have got half2 cup of ketchup half cup of brown sugar 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar careful not to spill that uh 2 tbspoon of mustard and

Then if we get crazy a shake of cayenne Shake of garlic powder salt and pepper to taste of course and then the beans um got a this used to be a 31 Oz can of Oren beans these days thanks to hyperinflation it’s a 28 o can got one of

Those I got a can of butter beans can of Lia beans can of kidney beans and if it looks like we’re running short on beans I’m going to add a can of Great Northern beans but we probably won’t need those and this is really a good recipe not only for summertime barbecues

But let me show you what it looks like outside We got about 8 Ines of fresh snow outside and this kind of helps warm us up just a little bit so let’s get the bacon In and what we’re going to do is just crisp up the bacon I can already smell It now at the moment I am using a fancy 94t Lake ruset enamel cast iron Dutch oven back when I worked in Yellowstone I didn’t even know what a lake crus Dutch oven even was I was 19 years old and off the farm in Alabama had never been away from home

Before and went out there and work for the summer and absolutely fell in love with it and absolutely the adventure of a lifetime so you younger viewers if your job prospects are slim head out to Yellowstone they are always hiring um I moved up into management some somehow mainly because I just

Showed up and didn’t leave I fulfilled my contract and lots of other people go out there and work for the Summers and leave if you just stick around you you move up and I remember I used to talk to some of the Wranglers that work down there at

Roosevelt so down at Roosevelt Lodge I worked in Mammoth and at Old Faithful and down at Roosevelt Lodge they ran kind of a horseback ride or a wagon ride out kind of into the park where they would fix a cowboy dinner and I think you can get a

Steak and of course other things but also you could get Roosevelt beans and they told me a story one time of how they were out there on that horseback ride that horseback cookout and an old bear came in and the old bear got up on the table everyone scattered and the

Bear started eating some of the uh the food there and of course he may have been coming in for the steak but I have to believe he was coming in for some of these Roosevelt Beans okay bacon is starting to crisp up just a little bit and I’m not going to drain that bacon grease because for whatever reason it seems sausage these days uh doesn’t have the same fat in it as when I was little used to we would cook sausage

Breakfast sausage there would be a pan of Grease left over I think they have bred the pigs these days to be a little bit cleaner they don’t put as much fat in the sausage our fat pigs are skinny pigs these days and lots of times sausage needs a little help to cook so

I’m going to leave that bacon grease in there let’s get the sausage In well dropped an onion can we eat an onion off the floor I think at the employee dining room in Yellowstone I eat a lot worse than That and just for fun since I have nothing to do standing here I’m going to go ahead and mix up our flavor ingredients here and kind of give that a head start especially let some of that brown sugar kind of melt a little bit we go ahead and put the onion in And just make sure I don’t have any raw meat on your hands little bit of black pepper and because these are canned beans and I’m using sausage and bacon I’m not going to add any salt now I will test it for salt ler later on uh when

They get closer to being ready okay while we’re waiting a couple of crazy Yellowstone stories from back in the day uh one time I saw a tourist trying to feed a sandwich to a buffalo one time I saw um I guess a man was driving a car and a lady was

Standing up through the sunroof with a video camera and this is before the days of uh video cell phones and videotaping the entire park she stood up through the sunroof and videotape the whole thing and maybe the craziest thing I ever saw um I used to work at Old Faithful and when Old

Faithful goes off there’s a million people there watching it go off and then when it’s over they scatter and one time between eruptions no one was out there and I looked out there and lo and behold a tourist had walked out onto the cone and was looking down the hole looking

Down the hole of Old Faithful trying to get a picture and if if you know anything about Old Faithful it says it’s Old Faithful that’s the marketing hype but there is a wide variability in the times it goes off that person could have been boiled alive with super heated

Steamed boiling water thank goodness a ranger ran out the air and got her off of there before the next eruption okay that’s probably good enough here let’s go ahead and get our pork and beans In those mixed up and if it’s possible to deglaze a dutch oven with pork and bean juice that is what I am doing now there any sticky bits on the bottom let’s go ahead and get those Incorporated I’m going to go with my butter beans it looks pretty dry in here

So I’m just going to not drain these add my Limas let’s see I’m going to go ahead and add the sauce and then make the final call on draining or not draining the remaining beans the kidneys in and I think just for fun I’m going to add since I’ve added extra

Meat I’m going to add a can of Great Northern beans let’s make sure everything is stirred nicely okay so now I’m going to transfer this Dutch oven to a 300 25° oven uh let those bake for an hour or so and then we are going to tuck [Applause] In okay so those beans turned out absolutely deliciously everything I remember and I think at least is good if not better than what you might get in Yellowstone just got to say uh leave your questions comments and feedback below thank you for watching we’ll see you again next time on Uncle Scott’s

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