Red Beans and Rice
Red Beans and Rice

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, red beans and rice. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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. But until then, I'll be making the creamiest red beans and rice on the daily.

Red Beans and Rice is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Red Beans and Rice is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red beans and rice using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Beans and Rice:
  1. Take 2 lb red beans
  2. Take 1 onion
  3. Make ready 3 toes of garlic
  4. Get 1 lb pickled meat
  5. Get 1 tbls parsley
  6. Take 1 lb cut up smoked sausage
  7. Make ready 1/2 tsp baking soda
  8. Prepare 1 cup chopped celery
  9. Make ready 2 bay leaves
  10. Make ready to taste Salt
  11. Prepare to taste Pepper

I tried Popeye's Red Beans and Rice for the first time a while back, but these beans are even better. They are so creamy and flavorful, with the perfect smoky Cajun spice! 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.

Instructions to make Red Beans and Rice:
  1. Sort through beans to remove any bad ones or pebbles. Rinse beans a couple of times.
  2. Soak beans overnight in enough cold water to cover them by a few inches (picture is of after a night of soaking)
  3. Strain beans add to pot with enough cold water to cover by three inches
  4. Add chopped onion, garlic, celery, salt, pepper, baking soda, parsley and bay leaves
  5. Put on low/medium fire bring to a boil and simmer
  6. Brown cut up sausage in a frying pan then add to the pot of beans
  7. Add pickled meat
  8. Cook on low stirring occasionally. Do not tightly cover
  9. Cook for three and a half hours or until beans are cooked
  10. Smash some beans against the side of the pot to make it creamier

Soak the beans in water (make sure to use twice as much water as beans) overnight. Every Monday, you can find a pot of red beans and rice cooking in someone's kitchen in New Orleans. The food writer and New Orleans bon vivant Pableaux Johnson's house is no exception. 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 You could make a quick version of red beans and rice with canned beans, but if you want really creamy texture and the best flavor, dried beans.

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