Calico Baked Beans are awesome! Lima Beans, Butter Beans, Kidney Beans and Pork and Beans add zest to this recipe. The beans are mixed with ground beef, bacon and onions in a tasty homemade sauce. The casserole bakes up to absolute perfection.

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This casserole is a great dish to serve during the summer holiday season when you need a dish for a potluck, a backyard barbecue or grilling outside. We especially love to serve this dish with Barbecue Brisket, Creamy Potato Salad and my Famous Deviled Eggs. Talk about a terrific meal. This is it!

I’ll never forget the kindness of Marge Currin when she brought us this casserole, a salad, and a delicious lemon pound cake back in January 1990. We moved to New England (from Florida) in the dead of winter. She was the executive director’s wife and took the time to make us this delicious meal as we were unloading our U-Haul. There was snow on the ground and we had two young boys in tow.

She is the one who inspired me to begin taking meals to others when they are sick, giving birth, moving into a new house, bereavement, etc. I remember how grateful we were to receive that meal. We were still unpacking and hauling furniture and boxes in from the truck. But we stopped and set up a card table in the kitchen and sat down to eat what was a delicious feast to us at the time.

Marge is the one who gave me this recipe. But it is another one that is all over the Internet and in cookbooks in many different versions. I have no idea who actually created the recipe, but it has been around a long time. It works wonderfully in the crockpot too.

I have to admit that I love Baked Bean recipes. I also have Hearty Cowboy Baked Beans, Spicy Baked Beans and Coca Cola Baked Beans that isn’t as unhealthy as it sounds. All recipes taste fabulously. If you’re a connoisseur of good baked beans give one of these tasty recipes a try sometime.

If you’re looking for a spiffed-up baked beans recipe, Calico Baked Beans has been one of my most requested recipes over the years. It’s truly delicious and not difficult to make either. This recipe is gluten free if your pork ‘n beans, bacon, and ketchup are gluten free.

When I initially posted this recipe June 2012, I had only been blogging for a week. My little iPhone 3 was just not up to snuff when it came to taking quality pictures. But it was all I had to work with. I recently remade this recipe for a potluck for our Sunday school class (April 2015) and retook the pictures. Everyone commented on how much they loved my beans and several wanted to take the leftovers home!

The original recipe called for one cup of white sugar and one cup of brown sugar which I’ve always found to be a little too sweet. I’ve eliminated the white sugar entirely and now use only about 1/2 cup brown sugar. Everyone found the beans to be flavored perfectly–not too sweet and not to vinegary.

I recently remade this recipe again (June 2019). I served it for our church’s college kids one night when they were having a volleyball night. The director was making hamburgers and asked me to make Baked Beans. I also sent along Roasted Paprika Corn, Kiwi-Strawberry Spinach Salad and some Oatmeal Scotchies. The kids loved all the food.

Calico Baked Beans are hard to beat. I hope you give them a try for your next potluck or backyard barbecue.

Calico Baked Beans has always been one of our most requested Baked Beans recipes.

Every bite of Calico Baked Beans is amazing.

I served Calico Baked Beans with Hamburgers and Down Home Potato Salad.

If you take Calico Baked Beans to a potluck, you won’t be bringing home ANY leftovers!

Here’s what I did.

I used these ingredients.

Normally I would have used canned lima beans, but I had these in the freezer and wanted to use them up. So I used frozen lima beans instead.

Place ground beef in a skillet. Add bacon, cut in 1-inch pieces.

Fry both meats together in skillet. 

Add chopped onion.

Stir to combine. Brown until bacon is cooked through and onions are tender. Drain off any grease.

Add kidney beans, butter beans, lima beans and pork and beans. 

Stir beans into mixture to combine.

This recipe called for a lot of sugar. I eliminated the white sugar entirely and used about 1/2 cup of brown sugar. 

Add sugar to skillet with ketchup, dry mustard, vinegar, salt and pepper.

Stir to combine ingredients.

Pour beans into a greased 9×13″ glass baking dish.

Bake about 45 minutes at 350.

Calico Baked Beans is a great recipe to take to a backyard barbecue.

If you enjoy Baked Beans you’ll love Calico Baked Beans! It’s wonderful served with Grilled Kielbasa and Roasted Paprika Corn.

We also enjoyed it with Hamburgers and Down Home Potato Salad.

Here is the recipe.

CALICO BAKED BEANS

(Recipe adapted from Marge Currin, Baptist Convention of New England, Northborough, MA)

Consider baking a pot of Calico Baked Beans the next time you make hamburgers or hot dogs.

The savory and sweet flavors of Calico Baked Beans are perfectly blended.

Every bite is so scrumptious. I can make a meal out of just these beans!

You may also enjoy these delicious recipes!

Hearty Cowboy Baked Beans

Spicy Baked Beans

Coca Cola Baked Beans