Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, shorty's red beans and rice - easy style. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Shorty's Red Beans and Rice - Easy style is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Shorty's Red Beans and Rice - Easy style is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook shorty's red beans and rice - easy style using 12 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Shorty's Red Beans and Rice - Easy style:

1. Prepare 1 Green Bell Pepper - diced
2. Make ready 3 (15.5 oz) cans Red Beans (rinsed and drained). The cans should be labeled Red Beans (not kidney beans)… Sometimes smaller groceries won't carry this kind of canned bean. You can always substitute dry Red beans (prepped) and use broth instead of water
3. Take 4 cloves garlic - minced
4. Get 3-4 stalks celery - diced
5. Get 1 onion - diced
6. Get 1 lb Andouille Sausage
7. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Cayenne pepper
8. Make ready 1 bay leaf
9. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon rubbed sage
10. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon cumin
11. Prepare 2 cup water
12. Get 2 teaspoons Hot sauce (Tabasco or similar) or to taste

Steps to make Shorty's Red Beans and Rice - Easy style:

1. Preheat oven to 350F
2. Dice up onion, bell pepper, and celery into bean-sized bits as indicated above
3. Brown andouille sausage over medium/high heat in a separate pan. Should be slightly browned and crispy when done
4. Sauté vegetables in olive oil over medium heat. Add garlic half about 5 minutes after beginning to sauté. Continue to sauté until the onions are translucent but not brown.
5. Add water to sautéed vegetables.
6. Add rinsed and drained red beans to the vegetables and broth
7. Add cumin, cayenne, and bayleaf to vegetable mixture
8. Bring bean/veggies to a simmer
9. After the beans come to a simmer, add a smidgen of water (2 tbsp) to the pan with the fried andouille. Then pour the browned andouille and the juice into to the beans.
10. Place your pot of beans covered into the oven on 350F for 45 minutes. Consider starting the rice while this is in the oven
11. Begin cooking rice of your choosing (white and plain brown are tastey choices)
12. Optional method to thicken the beans: 10-15 min before done cooking, scoop 1/2 cup of the broth into a cup. Add 1 tablespoon of corn starch, and dissolve in the liquid. Pour back into the pot and allow to cook remaining time.
13. Serve over rice of your choosing

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