Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, red beans and rice. One of my favorites. For mine, I will 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 well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Red Beans and Rice is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have red beans and rice using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Red Beans and Rice:

1. Make ready 1 tsp. Cumin
2. Take 1 tsp. Paprika
3. Get 1/8-1/4 tsp. salt
4. Take 1/8-1/4 tsp. Black pepper
5. Get 1 small onion
6. Make ready 1 small green pepper
7. Get 2 large cloves garlic minced
8. Prepare 1 tblsp. Oil or butter
9. Take 2 tsp. Vinegar
10. Prepare 2 cups water ( change according to rice instructions)
11. Take 1/2 small can tomato paste
12. Prepare 1 can low sodium kidney beans drained
13. Take 1 cup rice ( jasimine )

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. Heat up a 4 quart pan on medium. Meanwhile chop up the onion and green pepper. When the pan is hot add a bit of oil or butter. Toss in pepper and onion and saute for about two minutes. Stiring freqently.
2. Mean while mash the garlic cloves with the flat side of your cutting knife, peal, and mince.
3. After the two minutes of the pepper and onion cooking, toss in the minced garlic and saute about a minute more or until fragerant.
4. Turn up the heat to medium/high. Add the 2 cups of water, spices, vinegar, and tomato paste the the mixture and stir. - - *if you like some heat, add a pinch of red pepper or cayanne 🔥
5. When the water begins to bubble add 1 cup rice (jasimine) and the drained low sodium kidney beans. Stir and simmer for one minute.
6. After the minute, turn heat to low and cover rice mixture with a tight fitting lid. Steam for 15 minutes or however long the directions on your rice says for. - - * Never lift the lid! 😳 It's the secret to perfect rice, even if you are tempted… Don't let the steam out, it's precious…👍
7. After 15 minutes remove lid and fluff/stir the yumminess! Boom! Delicious red beans and rice!
8. I served mine as a side with simple lemon pepper chicken thighs…mmmm. And some Louisiana hot sauce! BAM! (as Emeril would say 😄) p.s. The dots are a fancy hot sauce decor 😉

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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