Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, red beans and rice. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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. 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 favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Red Beans and Rice is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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 cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Red Beans and Rice:

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

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.

Steps 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.

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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