Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, red beans and rice. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. 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. 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.

Red Beans and Rice is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Red Beans and Rice is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have red beans and rice using 10 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Red Beans and Rice:

1. Prepare 2 lb bag red beans
2. Take 1 pack Andouille Sausage
3. Prepare 1 pack Tasso Ham
4. Prepare 1 onion
5. Get 1 bell pepper
6. Prepare 1 small bag honey smoked ham
7. Make ready Salt & Pepper to your liking
8. Prepare 1 tbsp Cajan Seasoning
9. Prepare 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
10. Make ready 8 cups water

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. Soak beans in water over night or 2 to 4 hours. Sauté' onion, bell pepper, and sausage.
2. Pour in beans, Tasso, diced ham and cover with water. Cook on low 4 to 5 hours. Stir occasionally And may need to add a little more water as they cook down. Great over rice!!

No tomatoes are in real red beans and rice. I live in Louisiana and these were not even close to how they are served down south. They tasted OK, but I was disappointed in the results. 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.

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