Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, red beans and rice. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Red Beans and Rice is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Red Beans and Rice is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have red beans and rice using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Red Beans and Rice:

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

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.

Instructions 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.

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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