Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, red beans and rice. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Red Beans and Rice is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Red Beans and Rice is something that I have loved my whole life. They are 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 recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have red beans and rice using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Beans and Rice:

1. Take main
2. Make ready 1 each Polish Kebasa
3. Take 1/2 cup onion, chopped
4. Get 1 cup bell pepper, chopped (red, yellow, and green mix)
5. Take 2 can red kidney beans
6. Get 2 cup brown rice
7. Prepare 3 1/2 cup water
8. Get 3 tbsp butter
9. Take seasonings
10. Make ready 1 1/2 tbsp ground cumin
11. Prepare 1 tsp paprika
12. Make ready 1/4 tsp chili powder
13. Get 1/4 tsp coriander
14. Take 1 each garlic cloves, chopped
15. Make ready 1 tsp worcestershire sauce

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.

Instructions to make Red Beans and Rice:

1. Chop peppers and onion.
2. Slice Polish Kebasa into 1/4 inch slices Cut each slice in half.
3. Drain and rinse the two cans of kidney beans. Reserve liquid. Add enough water to make four cups.
4. In a deep pot on the stove, over medium-high heat, melt butter.
5. Once the butter is melted, put onion/pepper mix and sliced Kebasa into the pot. Cook until Kebasa starts to brown and onion/pepper mix gets tender.
6. Add seasonings to mix, and let simmer for several minutes. Make sure the seasonings are mixed well.
7. Add brown rice to the pot, mixing well, and let simmer for 5 minutes, stirring often.
8. Add kidney beans and then the water/reserved liquids to the pot, stirring thoroughly. Turn up the heat and bring to a rapid boil.
9. Once at a rapid boil, reduce heat to low-high, cover and let cook for 50 minutes or according to rice cooking instructions. Don't be tempted to lift the lid!
10. Once rice is cooked, and liquid is mostly absorbed, remove from heat, fluff and let sit for five minutes.
11. Note: You can use other types of rice. Just modify the cooking time in accordance to the instructions for the rice you choose. For extra heat, you can increase the chilli powder or add a dash or two of sriracha!

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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