Red beans with ham
Red beans with ham

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, red beans with ham. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

After an hour you just drain off the soak-water, add fresh water and the ham bone and get it cooking again until the beans are tender. Red Beans and Ham…an old family favorite. If you don't have a ham bone handy a smoked ham shank will give off a lot of flavors. And of course, if you don't have a bone then just toss in chunks of ham meat.

Red beans with ham is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Red beans with ham is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have red beans with ham using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Red beans with ham:
  1. Get 1 leftover ham on bone with about 1 pound of meat left on it
  2. Make ready 1 handful of garlic cloves (about 5-7)
  3. Take 1 medium white onion cut in sixths
  4. Get 1/2 tbsp course ground black pepper
  5. Get 1 juice from cooking ham
  6. Take 1 lb beans (I used light red kidney beans)
  7. Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp Zatarain's Creole seasoning
  8. Get 1 enough water to cover ham halfway
  9. Get 2 cup water (may need to add more)
  10. Prepare 1/2 can rotel

The beans are served over rice with browned smoked sausage, or add the sliced and browned smoked sausage to the beans. Andouille sausage is an excellent choice. Set aside until cool enough to crumble for garnish. Melt the butter in a dutch oven or very large saucepan and cook the onion, garlic, celery and carrot, covered, until softened.

Steps to make Red beans with ham:
  1. In a crock pot put pepper garlic onion then put Ham on top
  2. Add the juice from cooking the Ham and enough water to come halfway up the ham cook on low over night
  3. In the morning add the beans (make sure to look through them) Zatarain's Creole seasoning ½ can rotel and 2 cups water
  4. Cook on low all day. When you get home or at some point during the day check the liquid level. Add more if necessary.
  5. Eat over rice with some corn bread.

Set aside until cool enough to crumble for garnish. Melt the butter in a dutch oven or very large saucepan and cook the onion, garlic, celery and carrot, covered, until softened. Add the beans, ham, ham bone, water, worcestershire sauce, parsley, thyme, bay leaves, lemon juice, pepper flakes, and salt and pepper to taste. Once water begins to boil turn heat down to low, add remaining ingredients consisting of onions, garlic, green pepper pod, and bay leaf then allow to ham hock and red beans to simmer. Before serving remove ham hocks and beans from pot.

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