9/19/16

Game Day Slow Cooker Bean Dip

A super easy, big batch crock pot bean dip recipe perfect for tailgating and parties with just 5 ingredients!

The development of this recipe was sponsored by Hurst's Beans. As always, all opinions are my own.

It’s football season!! I love this time of year for all the obvious reasons (like, for one, because the weather finally starts cooling off – thank you Jesus!) but also because I LOVE tailgate food and football parties!

I wanted to have something that was better than but just as easy as chips and salsa to go along with everything else I was making for the game and decided to throw some dried beans in the crock pot and see what happened!

A packet of taco seasoning and block of cream cheese later I knew I had something extraordinary on my hands!

Game Day Slow Cooker Bean Dip | Super easy, big batch recipe perfect for tailgating and parties with just 5 ingredients!

This makes a big batch too so it’s perfect for entertaining! And the fact that it’s made and served in a slow cooker just screams TAILGATING!

I don’t have any real experience preparing authentic Mexican or Tex-Mex recipes so don’t yell at me if this is sacrilegious but… this tasted so good I decided to serve the leftovers as refried beans the next night and was BLOWN AWAY at how good it was!

Seriously, I think the next time I make my Crock Pot Carnitas I’m going to make this and serve as refried beans!

Game Day Slow Cooker Bean Dip | Super easy, big batch recipe perfect for tailgating and parties with just 5 ingredients!

If you can’t find Hurst’s Bacon & Beans Slow Cooker Soup Mix in your local grocery store, ask for them! My grocery store now carries all sorts of products they didn’t have before simply because I asked for them.

Just ask the cashier who to talk to to request a product and s/he will point you in the right direction. My store has a list at the Customer Service desk where they notate products their customers' request.

Game Day Slow Cooker Bean Dip | Super easy, big batch recipe perfect for tailgating and parties with just 5 ingredients!

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Game Day Slow Cooker Bean Dip


Yield: 16-18 Servings
Author:
prep time: 10 Mcook time: 6 hourstotal time: 6 H & 10 M
A super easy, big batch crock pot bean dip recipe perfect for tailgating and parties with just 5 ingredients!

ingredients:

  • 1 15.5 oz. package Hurst’s Bacon & Beans Slow Cooker Soup Mix
  • 6 cups water
  • 1 medium onion, finely diced
  • 1 packet taco seasoning
  • 1 8-oz. block cream cheese
  • 4 oz. cheddar cheese, shredded

instructions:

How to cook Game Day Slow Cooker Bean Dip

  1. Add dried beans (with included seasoning packet), water and diced onion to a medium-sized slow cooker. Cover and cook on high for 4-6 hours or low for 8-10 hours (or until beans are completely tender).
  2. When beans are tender remove 1 cup of liquid from slow cooker (I just eased a small coffee cup down into my beans and let it fill with liquid but you could use a ladle or turkey baster too). Reserve liquid.
  3. Add taco seasoning and cream cheese to slow cooker. Using a potato masher (or wooden spoon, crank shaft off your kid’s Play-Doh machine or whatever gets the job done) break cream cheese up into beans while mashing the beans as well. Using a hand-held mixer, mix the beans on low just until you reach your desired consistency (I like mine a little chunky).
  4. If your beans are too thick, add a little of the reserved cooking liquid. If they are too runny, continue cooking on high with the lid off until they thicken a bit.
  5. Top with cheese, reduce heat to “warm” then cover until ready to serve. Serve with tortilla chips or ridged potato chips.

NOTES:

If you can’t find Hurst’s Bacon & Beans Slow Cooker Soup Mix in your market, please ask your grocer for them. Until then, you use dried pinto beans then add salt to taste and 1-2 teaspoons Liquid Smoke. You can also order them online!
If you’d rather serve these in another dish, spoon beans into container and then top with cheese.
If you didn’t catch this in the post, this makes THE BEST refried beans EVER! We had the leftover dip as a side dish the following night to go along with the fajitas I cooked for supper and it was amazing!!
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A super easy, big batch crock pot bean dip recipe perfect for tailgating and parties with just 5 ingredients!



4 comments:

  1. Wow, this is an excellent idea ! What I do is simple beans and chili powder puree but this cheesy version is just irresistible ! Thank you for sharing it !

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  2. Yum this sounds sooooo good!! AND my husband is 1/2 Mexican and he would LOVE LOVE LOVE these as a side-bean dish to go with enchiladas or anything else!! I'm trying it this weekend!! Thanks!

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  3. P.S. You need an app, girl! I would put in on my slow pokey android so I could get to the site easier. :-)

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Hi there! While I’m not able to respond to every comment, I try hard to answer any questions that haven’t been addressed in the post, recipe or in other comments.

I can tell you now 1) I have no idea if you can substitute Minute Rice or brown rice in my recipes because I’ve never used them and 2) If I know how to convert a recipe to a Crock Pot version, I will make a note about it (otherwise, I don’t know).

And though I may not respond to them all, I do read each and every comment and I LOVE to hear from you guys! Thanks, y’all! - Mandy