Red Beans and Rice
Red Beans and Rice

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, red beans and rice. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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 is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Red Beans and Rice is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Red Beans and Rice:
  1. Take 2 cans kidney beans
  2. Prepare 1 can (6 oz) tomato paste
  3. Take 1/2 onion
  4. Take 3 cloves garlic
  5. Get Red Wine (1 can full)
  6. Get Olive oil
  7. Prepare 1 cup water
  8. Make ready 6 servings Cooked rice
  9. Make ready to taste Cajun seasoning
  10. Make ready 1 teaspoon Thyme
  11. Make ready 2 links andouille sausage

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.

Steps to make Red Beans and Rice:
  1. Chop up onion and mince garlic then brown in skillet in olive oil.
  2. Drain two cans of kidney beans and pour into pot for cooking.
  3. Put tomato paste into pot with beans. Pour the red wine into the can and pour into the pot with beans and tomato paste.
  4. Stir up the beans, wine, tomato paste and then add the water.
  5. Stir the ingredients together well and add the browned onions and garlic. Add Cajun seasoning to taste. This is based upon your tolerance to spicy food. If you cannot find Cajun seasoning, add some Chipotle Tabasco sauce to taste.
  6. Bring the mixture to a boil. Once boiling, reduce heat and simmer for approximately 10 or 15 mins until the beans get the consistency you prefer. I prefer a saucy consistency.
  7. Slice andouille sausage into thick slices and cook in skillet used for onions and garlic.
  8. Once sausage is cooked, add into the beans and sauce. Continue to simmer for another 5 mins.
  9. Cook rice.
  10. Serve by placing rice onto plate/bowl and then beans/sausage on top. Enjoy!

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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