Red Beans and Rice
Red Beans and Rice

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, red beans and rice. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Red Beans and Rice is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Red Beans and Rice is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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

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

  1. When the water begins to bubble add 1 cup rice (jasimine) and the drained low sodium kidney beans. Stir and simmer for one minute.
  2. 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…👍
  1. After 15 minutes remove lid and fluff/stir the yumminess! Boom! Delicious red beans and rice!
  2. 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 😉

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