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

Red beans and rice is an emblematic dish of Louisiana Creole cuisine (not originally of Cajun cuisine) traditionally made on Mondays with red beans, vegetables (bell pepper, onion, and celery), spices. 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.

Red Beans and Rice is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Red Beans and Rice is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

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

The ingredients needed to make Red Beans and Rice:

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

There was plenty of flavor, and plenty of meat, with the smoked shanks. 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. Soak the beans in water (make sure to use twice as much water as beans) overnight.

Steps 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

No tomatoes are in real red beans and rice. I live in Louisiana and these were not even close to how they are served down south. They tasted OK, but I was disappointed in the results. 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 cook itself, unattended, while they were busy scrubbing clothes.

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