Collard Green Creole Dirty Rice Food

NEW SOUL CREOLE DIRTY RICE

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onion, celery, and poblano and cook until soft, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, 45 to 60 seconds. Add the chicken livers and cook until no longer pink, about 3 minutes. Stir in the rice, thyme, paprika, cayenne pepper, the 2 cups water, and chopped collard greens. Season with 1/2 teaspoon of coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper. Increase the heat to medium-high, and bring to a boil. Cover and decrease the heat to simmer. Cook until the rice is tender, about 18 minutes, or for brown rice, about 35 minutes.
• Remove from the heat and let rest, covered, for an additional 5 minutes. No peeking! Add the green onions and fluff with a fork to combine. Taste and adjust for seasoning with salt and pepper. Serve warm with hot sauce on the side.

COLLARD GREEN CREOLE DIRTY RICE RECIPE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium. Add onion, celery, and poblano, and cook, stirring often, until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Add garlic; cook, stirring constantly, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add sausage; cook, stirring with a wooden spoon, until sausage crumbles and is no longer pink, about 3 minutes. Add rice, thyme, paprika, and cayenne; cook, stirring constantly, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in stock, collard greens, salt, and black pepper. Bring to a boil; cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer until rice is tender, about 18 minutes.
• Remove from heat, and let stand, covered, 5 minutes. Add scallions, and fluff with a fork to combine. Serve warm with hot sauce.

CLASSIC CAJUN DIRTY RICE

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• In a large saucepan over high heat, bring the chicken broth to a boil.
• Add the chicken gizzards to the broth and reduce the heat to low; simmer for 30 minutes.
• Remove the gizzards with a slotted spoon and grind or chop them very finely. Reserve the broth.
• Add the bacon drippings or oil and 2 tablespoons of the butter to a Dutch oven or flameproof casserole over medium heat. Once the oil and butter mixture is hot, add the ground pork and ground or chopped gizzards.
• Cook, stirring frequently until browned.
• Lower the heat. Add the onions, celery, bell pepper, garlic, salt, pepper, paprika, and cayenne. Stir and continue cooking until the vegetables are tender, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Add the rice and reserved broth and then quickly bring to a boil. Heat the oven to 250 F.
• Stir, cover, and reduce the heat to low. Simmer for 15 minutes, or until the rice is tender.
• Melt the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter in a skillet and sauté the minced chicken livers for 3 minutes.
• Toss the minced chicken livers with the rice, taste for seasoning, and adjust with more salt and pepper as needed.
• Cover the pan and place it in the preheated oven for 10 minutes.
• Fluff with a fork. Serve and enjoy.

DIRTY RICE STUFFED COLLARDS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Sauce:
• Saute the onion in oil in a heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium-high heat, until softened. Stir in the tomato sauce, brown sugar, apple cider vinegar, salt and pepper. Let simmer for 15 minutes.
• Filling:
• Heat the oil in a heavy-bottomed saute pan over medium-high heat. Add the pork and brown. Once browned, add the garlic, onion, celery, and green bell pepper. Cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Add the chicken broth and cayenne. Stir in the cooked rice and parsley, mixing thoroughly and letting the broth reduce until there is no moisture left in the pan. Taste and season with salt and pepper, if necessary.
• In a large pot of boiling salted water, over medium heat, add the collard leaves and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Drain and rinse with cold water.
• Lay a collard leaf out on a flat surface and add 1/4 cup of the dirty rice into the center. Fold both the sides into the center and the top and bottom over the center. Roll into a cylinder and repeat with the remaining leaves. If there are any remaining leaves you can chop them up and add to the sauce.
• Pour a 1/2-inch layer of sauce into a 13 by 9-inch casserole dish. Arrange the collard rolls, seam sides down, on top of the sauce. Pour the remaining sauce over the stuffed collards and cover with foil. Bake in the preheated oven for 40 minutes. Remove from the oven and serve.

COLLARD GREEN RICE

Steps:

• Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add the rice and cook, toasting until the rice begins to smell nutty, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the chicken stock and some House Seasoning. Bring it to a boil; cover, reduce the heat to low and cook until the rice is tender and has absorbed all the liquid, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Meanwhile, heat the butter and remaining tablespoon oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onion, pepper, garlic and a generous pinch of House Seasoning. Cook until just tender and beginning to brown, about 5 minutes. Add the collards and cook until softened, 6 to 8 minutes.
• Once the rice is cooked and the liquid is absorbed, turn off the heat. Remove the lid and add the onions and collard green mixture. Fluff and stir gently with a fork to combine.
• Stir together the garlic and onion powders, paprika, salt and pepper in a small bowl. Store in an airtight container.