Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, red beans and rice. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Red Beans and Rice is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Red Beans and Rice is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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:
- Make ready soaked red beans
- Take chicken stock
- Make ready small white onions, chopped
- Prepare bell pepper, chopped
- Prepare celery, chopped
- Prepare bay leaves
- Make ready andouille sausage
- Take garlic, finely minced
- Make ready smoked ham hocks
- Get chopped parsley
- Make ready ground dry thyme
- Take cayenne pepper
- Prepare cumin
- Take salt
- Prepare fresh ground black pepper
- Get Sliced Green Onions
- Prepare Cooked Rice
- Take Tabasco
- Make ready Butter
Instructions to make Red Beans and Rice:
- Brown andouille in a large crock pot, remove when browned on all sides, reserve.
- Add onions and sweat with a bit of salt until translucent in butter.
- Add celery, bell pepper, and garlic. Cook until fragrant.
- Add cayenne, cumin, dry thyme, and pepper. Stir to combine.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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