Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, red beans and rice. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Red Beans and Rice is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Red Beans and Rice is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

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. 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.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have red beans and rice using 10 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Red Beans and Rice:

1. Prepare 2 lb bag red beans
2. Make ready 1 pack Andouille Sausage
3. Make ready 1 pack Tasso Ham
4. Get 1 onion
5. Make ready 1 bell pepper
6. Take 1 small bag honey smoked ham
7. Get Salt & Pepper to your liking
8. Make ready 1 tbsp Cajan Seasoning
9. Make ready 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
10. Get 8 cups water

There was plenty of flavor, and plenty of meat, with the smoked shanks. Red beans and rice is traditionally made with small red beans, but if you can't find them in your area, you can use red kidney beans (dark or light). You'll need one pound of dry beans for this recipe. Soak the beans in water (make sure to use twice as much water as beans) overnight.

Instructions to make Red Beans and Rice:

1. Soak beans in water over night or 2 to 4 hours. Sauté' onion, bell pepper, and sausage.
2. Pour in beans, Tasso, diced ham and cover with water. Cook on low 4 to 5 hours. Stir occasionally And may need to add a little more water as they cook down. Great over rice!!

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. Why red beans and rice on a Monday? As the apocryphal story goes, Mondays were traditionally laundry days, and women needed a dish that could cook itself, unattended, while they were busy scrubbing clothes.

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