Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, shorty's red beans and rice - easy style. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook shorty's red beans and rice - easy style using 12 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Shorty's Red Beans and Rice - Easy style:

1. Get 1 Green Bell Pepper - diced
2. Take 3 (15.5 oz) cans Red Beans (rinsed and drained). The cans should be labeled Red Beans (not kidney beans)… Sometimes smaller groceries won't carry this kind of canned bean. You can always substitute dry Red beans (prepped) and use broth instead of water
3. Prepare 4 cloves garlic - minced
4. Prepare 3-4 stalks celery - diced
5. Get 1 onion - diced
6. Take 1 lb Andouille Sausage
7. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Cayenne pepper
8. Take 1 bay leaf
9. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon rubbed sage
10. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon cumin
11. Prepare 2 cup water
12. Get 2 teaspoons Hot sauce (Tabasco or similar) or to taste

Side note, if you can get your hands on it, savannah sausage andouille is fantastic. The only other that I think compares is Registers in the panhandle of FL. This recipe is not like a traditional red beans and rice recipe. I was trying to find one and made this.

Steps to make Shorty's Red Beans and Rice - Easy style:

1. Preheat oven to 350F
2. Dice up onion, bell pepper, and celery into bean-sized bits as indicated above
3. Brown andouille sausage over medium/high heat in a separate pan. Should be slightly browned and crispy when done
4. Sauté vegetables in olive oil over medium heat. Add garlic half about 5 minutes after beginning to sauté. Continue to sauté until the onions are translucent but not brown.
5. Add water to sautéed vegetables.
6. Add rinsed and drained red beans to the vegetables and broth
7. Add cumin, cayenne, and bayleaf to vegetable mixture
8. Bring bean/veggies to a simmer
9. After the beans come to a simmer, add a smidgen of water (2 tbsp) to the pan with the fried andouille. Then pour the browned andouille and the juice into to the beans.
10. Place your pot of beans covered into the oven on 350F for 45 minutes. Consider starting the rice while this is in the oven
11. Begin cooking rice of your choosing (white and plain brown are tastey choices)
12. Optional method to thicken the beans: - 10-15 min before done cooking, scoop 1/2 cup of the broth into a cup. Add 1 tablespoon of corn starch, and dissolve in the liquid. Pour back into the pot and allow to cook remaining time.
13. Serve over rice of your choosing

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. Slow cooker red beans and rice recipe is so easy and budget friendly! This meal is so frugal and the beans and rice help to stretch the sausage.

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