Vegan Baked Beans

30-minute vegan baked beans, made with our delicious tempeh bacon. Eat them on toast or as part of a full plant-based English breakfast.

We had to travel to South East Asia to try baked beans for the first time. We were so lucky and found many plant-based breakfast dishes while travelling and tried vegan baked vegans in one of our hotels. They served it as part of a traditional English breakfast with sausages, bread, mushrooms, tomatoes and scrambled eggs. Sausages and scrambled eggs weren’t plant-based, but fortunately the rest were vegan.

Making vegan baked beans is so easy. As I can’t get vegan worcestershire sauce here in Spain, I used tamari or soy sauce instead. Some versions add bacon and others don’t, but as I’m a tempeh bacon lover, I decided to include it in my recipe. If you prefer a simpler version, just omit it.

I didn’t bake my beans, just stew them in tomato sauce. Although dried beans are traditionally used to make this recipe, I find canned beans so convenient, but it’s up to you. I also used cannellini beans as I had one can in my pantry, but navy beans or any other type of beans is okay.

looking for more breakfast recipes?

• Simple tofu scramble
• Vegan avocado toast
• Vegan gluten-free banana bread
• 3-Ingredient vegan gluten free pancakes
• Vegan French toast

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Vegan Baked Beans

• Author: Simple Vegan Blog
• Prep Time: 5 minutes
• Cook Time: 25 minutes
• Total Time: 30 minutes
• Yield: 2-4 1x
• Category: Side dish
• Cuisine: Vegan, American

30-minute vegan baked beans, made with our delicious tempeh bacon. Eat them on toast or as part of a full plant-based English breakfast.

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Ingredients

For the tempeh bacon (optional):

• 4 ounces tempeh (100 g), chopped
• 1 tsp tamari or soy sauce
• 1 tsp maple or agave syrup
• 1/4 tsp hot or sweet paprika
• 1/4 tsp ground cumin

For the baked beans:

• 2 cloves of garlic, minced
• 1/2 red onion, chopped
• 1 tbsp maple or agave syrup
• 1 tbsp tamari or soy sauce
• 1/8 tsp ground black pepper
• 1/2 cup tomato puree (125 ml)
• 1 15-ounce can cannellini beans (425 g)

Instructions

1. To make the tempeh bacon, add all the ingredients to a bowl, stir and let stand for 1 to 2 minutes. Then cook the bacon in a skillet with some water or oil over medium-high heat until golden brown. Set aside.
2. Cook the garlic and onion in a skillet with some water or oil over medium-high heat and when they start to golden brown, add the syrup, tamari or soy sauce, pepper and tomato puree and cook for 5 minutes more.
3. Add the bacon and beans and cook for 5 to 10 minutes or until the sauce thickens a little bit.
4. Keep leftovers in a sealed container in the fridge for 4 to 5 days. If the sauce it’s too thick, add some water or tomato puree before reheating the baked beans.

Notes

• Tempeh bacon is completely optional and you can also make our eggplant bacon.
• Feel free to add any other sweetener. If you use a non-liquid sweetener to make the bacon, add a little bit of water or oil instead.

Nutrition

• Serving Size: 1/4 of the recipe
• Calories: 190
• Sugar: 5.9 g
• Sodium: 500 mg
• Fat: 3.2 g
• Saturated Fat: 0.6 g
• Carbohydrates: 26.7 g
• Fiber: 6.2 g
• Protein: 13.9 g