Red Beans and Rice
Red Beans and Rice

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, red beans and rice. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Red Beans and Rice is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Red Beans and Rice is something that I have loved my entire life.

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 (thyme, cayenne pepper, and bay leaf) and pork bones as left over from Sunday dinner. 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 must prepare a few components. You can have red beans and rice using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Beans and Rice:
  1. Take 2 cans kidney beans
  2. Make ready 1 can (6 oz) tomato paste
  3. Make ready 1/2 onion
  4. Prepare 3 cloves garlic
  5. Get Red Wine (1 can full)
  6. Get Olive oil
  7. Get 1 cup water
  8. Prepare 6 servings Cooked rice
  9. Take to taste Cajun seasoning
  10. Make ready 1 teaspoon Thyme
  11. Get 2 links andouille sausage

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 up onion and mince garlic then brown in skillet in olive oil.
  2. Drain two cans of kidney beans and pour into pot for cooking.
  3. Put tomato paste into pot with beans. Pour the red wine into the can and pour into the pot with beans and tomato paste.
  4. Stir up the beans, wine, tomato paste and then add the water.
  5. Stir the ingredients together well and add the browned onions and garlic. Add Cajun seasoning to taste. This is based upon your tolerance to spicy food. If you cannot find Cajun seasoning, add some Chipotle Tabasco sauce to taste.
  6. Bring the mixture to a boil. Once boiling, reduce heat and simmer for approximately 10 or 15 mins until the beans get the consistency you prefer. I prefer a saucy consistency.
  7. Slice andouille sausage into thick slices and cook in skillet used for onions and garlic.
  8. Once sausage is cooked, add into the beans and sauce. Continue to simmer for another 5 mins.
  9. Cook rice.
  10. Serve by placing rice onto plate/bowl and then beans/sausage on top. Enjoy!

Red Beans and Rice is the quintessential New Orleans dish found everywhere from fine restaurants to neighborhood joints. Red beans & rice is a dish composed primarily of red beans and rice. But of course, as is often the case, the resulting dish is greater than the sum of its parts. Red beans and rice is a southern staple! These beans are even better than Popeye's.

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