Red Beans n' Rice?

[JayFramer]

Guys I've been eating a lot of chicken and red beans n' rice.

I LOVE red beans and rice!! Anyone like it too? If so, do you have any recipes to share? I just cook Minute riice and warm up a can of beans with some seasonings in there and call it good. Not bad but probably not too authentic LOL.

Any Cajuns or southerners here with advice? Thanks!

Jay

 

[6518John]

I use Camellia red beans and thier crock-pot receipe. Super easy. Super good.

Slow Cooker Red Beans and Rice :: Recipes :: Camellia Brand

 

[Texas Star]

I've eaten it. There used to be a downtown Dallas lunch place that served it.

Don't recall if I've seen canned red beans Are they the same as pinto?

I use canned Ranch Style (brand) beans and brown rice, more nutritious than white rice.

I open a pouch or can of pink salmon and add maybe spinach or carrots or sweet potatoes.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

A downtown Houston restaurant, Treebeard's, has the best Cajun food including red beans and rice. I had them every Monday when I lived in Metairie.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...my wife made some a couple of days ago...

...good stuff...

 

[Rpg]

I’ve never made it, so I’m anxious to get some recipes too.

I’ve eaten it in restaurants: occasionally quite good, most commonly quite bland.

It’s the occasional good dish that keeps me ordering it.

 

[Muley Gil]

Back in my cop days, I would often go by Popeye's and get a large red beans and rice and a thigh. Made for a good supper.

 

[Skeet 028]

Popeyes RB&R is pretty good. Best I ever had was made by a fellow at work. Used his mommas recipe. Used pork neck bones in the beans. Cooked it all day. Had a little bite to it....but oh it was good. We'd usually have fried chicken with it. Most of those ol city boys looked at us out of the corner of their eyes. After about 5 or 6 times...Theodore had to triple the size of the pot he made. We would have it about once a month or so. Big ol bowl of RBR and one piece of chicken was almost enough.

 

[emptypockets]

Cook some mustard greens and cornbread along with the beans and rice...soak up the pot liquor with cornbread...a glass of sweet tea...finish with some bread pudding dripping with rum sauce.CA C'EST BON YEAH YOU RIGHT!!!!!

 

[TomkinsSP]

With Andouille sausage, diced onion, red pepper, celery, crushed garlic. Also good with shrimp and okra, but may have crossed the line into gumbo.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Add a can of sliced jalapenos and some becon.

 

[vonn]

Good food that has many different options. Deer sausage cut into bite size chunks is a favorite of mine. I think it gets better the longer it is cooked and then add rice when served.

 

[zeke]

Just couple days ago googled up the closest Popeyes. Really like their chicken and red beans and rice. Apparently would have to drive to Min/StPaul (bout 2 hrs) to get some.

 

[REM 3200]

Gotta' be Blue Runner Red Beans, IMO

 

[vigil617]

Had some red beans and rice in the French Quarter while passing through New Orleans with my college buddies many years ago, in tribute to this:

On the water down in New Orleans
My baby's the pearl of the quarter
She's a charmer like you never seen
Singing voulez, voulez, voulez-vous

Where the sailor spend his hard-earned pay
Red beans and rice for a quarter
You can see her almost any day
Singing voulez, voulez, voulez-vous

And if you hear from my Louise
Won't you tell her I say hello
Please make it clear
When her day is done
She got a place to go. . .

"Pearl of the Quarter"
Steely Dan
from Countdown to Ecstasy, 1973

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Red beans and rice demands sausage, in my opinion, and a moderate touch of Cajun seasoning brings it to life! I've used several different kinds of sausage (hot links, smoked German sausage, and deer or elk sausage) and they are all good, just depends on your tastes. Personally, I like to have enough chunks of sausage that there is some in every spoonful.

I like to use dry beans slow cooked in a crock pot (start with a quart of chicken stock for rich broth, make sure there is enough water to keep the beans covered as they cook), add the rice after the beans are fully cooked (careful, dry rice expands to 5 or 6 times its volume and soaks up a lot of your bean broth, so you will probably need to add some water to the broth), cut up my sausage and brown it in a skillet, then add to the crock pot. Add Cajun seasoning to taste, maybe a few dashes of Tabasco pepper sauce. Cover and simmer for an hour or two. One lb. dry beans, 1 cup dry rice, two lbs. sausage is a good start (yields about 5 quarts or 5-6 lbs. finished, enough for a dozen servings). This will take a BIG crock pot, and I will sometimes use my 12-qt. stock pot on the stove top.

Perfectly good frozen and reheated (I like 1-qt. Tupperware, or freezer bags can also be used). Each 1-qt. increment will feed two people with plenty for seconds or leftovers. No need for anything to go to waste.

 

[Bullseye 2620]

There are many recipes for this classic, but here's the one I use. It's done in a slow cooker and is easy:

Ingredients

1 pound dried red beans
7 cups water
1 green bell pepper, chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
3 celery stalks, chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 pound andouille sausage, sliced
3 tablespoons Creole seasoning (I use Zatarain's)

Hot cooked white rice

Garnish: sliced green onions

Preparation

Step 1

Place first 8 ingredients in a 4-quart slow cooker.

Step 2

Cook, covered, at HIGH 7 hours or until beans are tender. Serve with hot cooked rice. Garnish, if desired. Makes about 3-1/2 quarts.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...I had a roommate at college who was from Baton Rouge Louisiana...

...his mother would fix us pork chops cooked over red beans and rice...all the good stuff that cooked out of the chops ended up in the beans and rice...quite good...

...the Colorado Renaissance Festival has a booth that sells Cajun red beans and rice...the booth on one side sells smoked turkey legs...the booth on the other side sells draft beer...stop at all three and you are all set...

 

[nachogrande]

JUST WAIT TIL I HOOK UP THE NEW FREEZER!

RB&B will be 1 of the first big batches (16 qt's) I make. Canned beans??? Say it aint so. A smoked ham hock thrown in doesn't hurt.

 

[johngalt]

I'm not enthusiastic about rice any more.

My mother was diagnosed with Celiac a few years ago, which means no more gluten (wheat, rye, barley, etc). Most gluten-free stuff substitutes rice or rice flour. Research, and confirmed by the Doc, says that most rice, especially the refined white rice, is empty calories with little nutritional value. Or about as healthy as eating a bowl of sugar.