Baked Lima Beans And Bacon

By á-174942

Ingredients

• 1 pound dried small lima beans
• Bacon drippings as needed
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 tablespoon dry mustard
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 dash paprika
• 6 slices bacon

Preparation

Step 1

Soak the dried limas overnight in water to cover. In the morning, pour off the liquid. Cover the beans with boiling water and boil 1/2 hour. Drain, reserving the water.

Heat the oven to 325 degrees. Grease a 9-inch square baking pan with bacon drippings. Combine the sugar, mustard, salt and paprika. Make a layer of beans in the pan, then sprinkle with some of the seasonings. Make additional layers of beans and seasonings until they're all used up.

Cover the beans with bacon slices. Pour the water in which the beans were boiled gently over the contents of the pan just to come even with the bacon slices. Bake the beans until they're very tender, 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

This recipe yields 6 servings.

Each serving: 178 calories; 557 mg sodium; 8 mg cholesterol; 7 grams fat; 2 grams saturated fat; 21 grams carbohydrates; 8 grams protein; 4.29 grams fiber.