Southwestern Baked Beans

Total Time: 3 hrs 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 cup dried black beans, rinsed
• 1/4 cup pearl barley
• 1/2 large sweet onion, diced
• 4 tablespoons taco seasoning
• water

Recipe

• 1 soak beans for 6 hours or overnight. drain and mix remaining ingredients in a 2qt casserole. add enough water to be 1/2" above level of bean mixture. (this was to the top of my casserole dish).
• 2 cover with foil and bake at 375 about 3 hours. be sure to check after an hour and again after the 2nd hour to see if more water is needed. i ended up adding maybe 1/2 - 1 cup more each time.
• 3 this may also be done on the high setting of your slowcooker for 6-8 hours. i just didn't think far enough ahead to do mine that way.
• 4 you can substitute dried pintos, or even great northerns, if you don't have black beans.