How to Prepare Quick Red Beans and Rice

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, red beans and rice. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Red beans and rice is an emblematic dish of Louisiana Creole cuisine (not originally of Cajun cuisine) traditionally made on Mondays with red beans, vegetables (bell pepper, onion, and celery), spices (thyme, cayenne pepper, and bay leaf) and pork bones as left over from Sunday dinner. New Orleans-Influenced, Blues-Inspired Roots Music from the Central Coast of California. Red Beans and Rice - So thick, so creamy and so flavorful! The beans are cooked just right - perfectly tender, served with rice and smoky andouille sausage.

Red Beans and Rice is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Red Beans and Rice is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red beans and rice using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Beans and Rice:

1. Take 1 lb soaked red beans
2. Prepare 3 quarts chicken stock
3. Make ready 2 small white onions, chopped
4. Make ready 1 bell pepper, chopped
5. Prepare 4 stalks celery, chopped
6. Make ready 4 bay leaves
7. Make ready 1 lb andouille sausage
8. Take 4 cloves garlic, finely minced
9. Make ready 2 smoked ham hocks
10. Make ready chopped parsley
11. Prepare 2 teaspoons ground dry thyme
12. Get 2 teaspoons cayenne pepper
13. Prepare 1 teaspoon cumin
14. Prepare 1 tablespoon salt
15. Prepare 1 tablespoon fresh ground black pepper
16. Get Sliced Green Onions
17. Take Cooked Rice
18. Prepare Tabasco
19. Get Butter

Truly a must-have on your weekly rotation! Traditional Louisiana red beans and rice also uses Andouille sausage which we did not add, but you could if you wanted. There was plenty of flavor, and plenty of meat, with the smoked shanks. No tomatoes are in real red beans and rice.

Instructions to make Red Beans and Rice:

1. Brown andouille in a large crock pot, remove when browned on all sides, reserve.
2. Add onions and sweat with a bit of salt until translucent in butter.
3. Add celery, bell pepper, and garlic. Cook until fragrant.
4. Add cayenne, cumin, dry thyme, and pepper. Stir to combine.
5. Add chicken stock to pot, as well as the ham hocks, bay leaves, and the soaked red beans, bring to a boil and cover, stirring occasionally.
6. When beans are cooked through and tender, remove bay leaves and ham hocks (reserve the hocks), then use an immersion blender or your wooden spatula to break a portion of the beans down to give the dish a creamy texture. Reduce heat to a bare simmer.
7. Slice reserved andouille, and break ham hocks down, removing the meat from the bones. Discard bones and skin. Add meats back to pot and stir to combine.
8. When meat is brought up to temp (about 5 minutes), add chopped parsley, stir, and serve immediately over rice. Top with green onions and tabasco/crystal hot sauce to taste.

There was plenty of flavor, and plenty of meat, with the smoked shanks. No tomatoes are in real red beans and rice. I live in Louisiana and these were not even close to how they are served down south. They tasted OK, but I was disappointed in the results. Red beans & rice is a traditional Creole dish made with red beans, veggies, and, often, leftover pork bones.

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