Slow Cooker Italian Baked Beans

These Slow Cooker Italian Baked Beans are perfect for all your summer BBQ’s! They go wonderfully with burgers, hot dogs, ribs, you name it! They’re over-the-top ZESTY and ridiculously easy to make too!

These Slow Cooker Italian Baked Beans are a new favorite of mine. My good friend Debbie got the recipe from our other good friend Laurie who’s been making it for like ever. When I first tasted the recipe at Debbie’s I was hooked. Yup, hook, line and sinker. SOOOOO good and soooo easy too.

And what could be simpler than a slow cooker recipe? Just throw every thing and set it and forget it.

It is perfect for any time of the year. It’s a comfort food dish that’s work as a side for any of your food from the grill this summer. Hot dogs, burgers, ribs, steak.

Sometimes it’s difficult to find the butter beans, so if you can’t find them at your local market feel free to use cannellini beans or great northern white beans.

Step-By-Step Instructions

The first step will be to brown your Italian sausage and onions. If your slow slow cooker has a sauté function you can do it right in there, if not just do it in a large skillet. After the meat is cooked through and no longer pink and the onions are a bit softened, you’ll drain the fat and continue on to step two.

The second step and final step is to stir in all the remaining ingredients to the sausage and onion mixture in the slow cooker. You’ll cook the beans for 3-4 hours on high or 6-8 hours on low.

That’s it folks. How easy is that?

Hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! Summer 2025 here we come!

Please let me know if you give the recipe a try. And if you have any questions about the recipe, just drop a comment below. Enjoy!

Slow Cooker Italian Baked Beans

Author: MaryAnn Dwyer

Servings: 8 servings

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These Slow Cooker Italian Baked Beans are perfect for all your summer BBQ's! They go wonderfully with burgers, hot dogs, ribs, you name it! They're over-the-top ZESTY and ridiculously easy to make too!

Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 4 hours hrs 15 minutes mins

Total Time 4 hours hrs 25 minutes mins

Ingredients  

• 1 lb. bulk hot Italian sausage
• 2 medium yellow onions, chopped
• 1 28-oz. can baked beans
• 1 14-oz. can light red kidney beans, rinsed and drained
• 1 14-oz. can butter beans, rinsed and drained
• 1 14-oz. can cut green beans, drained
• 1 8-oz. can tomato paste
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 1 tsp. dry mustard

Instructions 

• Brown your Italian sausage and onions, breaking up the meat with a wooden spoon as it cooks. If your slow slow cooker has a sauté function you can do it right in there, if not just do it in a large skillet. After the meat is cooked through and no longer pink and the onions are a bit softened, you'll drain the fat and add to your slow cooker.
• Stir in all the remaining ingredients to the sausage and onion mixture in the slow cooker. You'll cook the beans for 3-4 hours on high or 6-8 hours on low. If you're cooking on high the the beans start to bubble you can decrease the temperature to low for the remainder of the time.

Notes

As I mentioned above, if you can't find the butter beans you can substitute cannellini beans or great northern white beans.

You can cook the beans on high or low. If you are cooking on high, when the beans start to bubble you can decrease the heat to low.

Keyword: baked beans, Italian sausage, Slow Cooker

Cuisine: Italian

Course: Side Dish