Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, red beans and rice. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. New Orleans-Influenced, Blues-Inspired Roots Music from the Central Coast of California. Red Beans and Rice - So thick, so creamy and so flavorful!
Red Beans and Rice is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Red Beans and Rice is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have red beans and rice using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Red Beans and Rice:
- Get 2 cans kidney beans
- Take 1 can (6 oz) tomato paste
- Prepare 1/2 onion
- Make ready 3 cloves garlic
- Make ready Red Wine (1 can full)
- Make ready Olive oil
- Make ready 1 cup water
- Take 6 servings Cooked rice
- Get to taste Cajun seasoning
- Take 1 teaspoon Thyme
- Prepare 2 links andouille sausage
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Instructions to make Red Beans and Rice:
- Chop up onion and mince garlic then brown in skillet in olive oil.
- Drain two cans of kidney beans and pour into pot for cooking.
- Put tomato paste into pot with beans. Pour the red wine into the can and pour into the pot with beans and tomato paste.
- Stir up the beans, wine, tomato paste and then add the water.
- 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.
- 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.
- Slice andouille sausage into thick slices and cook in skillet used for onions and garlic.
- Once sausage is cooked, add into the beans and sauce. Continue to simmer for another 5 mins.
- Cook rice.
- Serve by placing rice onto plate/bowl and then beans/sausage on top. Enjoy!
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 cook itself, unattended, while they were busy scrubbing clothes. A big ol' pot of red beans simmering on the stovetop was the perfect solution. Red beans and rice is a classic New Orleans dish that was traditionally enjoyed at least once a week. You don't have to be in the Big Easy to enjoy this tasty comfort food, though.
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