Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, red beans and rice. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Red Beans and Rice is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Red Beans and Rice is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have red beans and rice using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Red Beans and Rice:
- Prepare 1 lb soaked red beans
- Get 3 quarts chicken stock
- Prepare 2 small white onions, chopped
- Make ready 1 bell pepper, chopped
- Take 4 stalks celery, chopped
- Prepare 4 bay leaves
- Make ready 1 lb andouille sausage
- Prepare 4 cloves garlic, finely minced
- Get 2 smoked ham hocks
- Make ready chopped parsley
- Make ready 2 teaspoons ground dry thyme
- Make ready 2 teaspoons cayenne pepper
- Get 1 teaspoon cumin
- Make ready 1 tablespoon salt
- Get 1 tablespoon fresh ground black pepper
- Make ready Sliced Green Onions
- Get Cooked Rice
- Make ready Tabasco
- Make ready Butter
Steps to make Red Beans and Rice:
- Brown andouille in a large crock pot, remove when browned on all sides, reserve.
- Add onions and sweat with a bit of salt until translucent in butter.
- Add celery, bell pepper, and garlic. Cook until fragrant.
- Add cayenne, cumin, dry thyme, and pepper. Stir to combine.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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