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Bean Casserole.

Bean Casserole You can cook Bean Casserole using 30 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Bean Casserole

  1. Prepare of Pinto bean.
  2. Prepare of pinto beans dried.
  3. You need of water to soak overnight.
  4. You need of coarse pink Himalayan salt.
  5. You need of liquid smoke.
  6. It's of bacon drippings.
  7. You need of butter.
  8. You need of water.
  9. Prepare of granulated garlic powder.
  10. You need of granulated onion powder.
  11. It's of Meat sauce.
  12. It's of bulk sausage.
  13. Prepare of medium sized Roma tomatoes.
  14. It's of water to skin tomatoes.
  15. You need of granulated garlic powder.
  16. It's of medium onion.
  17. Prepare of pink Himalayan salt.
  18. It's of tomato paste.
  19. You need of all purpose flour.
  20. It's of tomato sauce.
  21. It's of Black beans.
  22. It's of canned black beans.
  23. Prepare of granulated garlic powder.
  24. It's of granulated onion powder.
  25. Prepare of pink Himalayan salt.
  26. It's of Cheeses.
  27. Prepare of fontina cheese.
  28. You need of coarsely shredded extra sharp cheddar cheese.
  29. Prepare of finely shredded extra sharp cheddar cheese.
  30. You need of extra sharp cheddar cheese chunks.

Bean Casserole instructions

  1. Presoak the beans overnight at room temperature. Rinse the beans and cover with new water. Add bacon drippings and liquid smoke. Bring to a boil, for 15 minutes, and turn to low heat and cover. Cook stirring occasionally for 1-1/2 hours. Add salt when really tender about 1 hour into cooking..
  2. Wash the tomatoes. Boil the 1 quart water. Add a tomato for 30 seconds..
  3. Remove the tomato from the water and peel off skin. Caution it will be hot. Repeat till all are skinned..
  4. Dice the onion and tomatoes and season with garlic, salt, and onion powder. Add sausage to a hot skillet along with the tomatoes and onions. Brown the sausage..
  5. Add the sauce, and tomato paste. Add into the sauce the flour. Let simmer till thickened a bit. Preheat the oven 400° Fahrenheit..
  6. Cook the black beans mashing them add there seasonings and cook down till thickened..
  7. By now the pinto beans have been cooking for 1 and a half hours. Add butter cook for 15 minutes more..
  8. Shred the coarse cheese. To an oven safe deep pan add the beans to the bottom. Cover with coarsely shredded cheese. Add the meat sauce then the finely shredded cheese..
  9. Take just enough pinto beans to cover the next layer. Mash the rest of the pinto beans add the chunked fontina and extra sharp chunk cheeses..
  10. Stir till creamy and very thick. Pour on top of the casserole and bake 45 minutes..
  11. Let rest for 15 minutes before serving..
  12. Serve I hope you enjoy!!!! I used sriracha sauce on mine..