Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our 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’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Red Beans and Rice is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Red Beans and Rice is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have red beans and rice using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Beans and Rice:

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

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. 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.

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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