Red Beans and Rice
Red Beans and Rice

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, red beans and rice. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Red Beans and Rice is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Red Beans and Rice is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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

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