Shadows Red Beans And Rice Food

GUY'S GUMBO SHACK - RED BEANS AND RICE

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, melt butter. Add all ingredients except beans and rice and saute until vegetables are soft. Add beans and cook for 30 minutes over medium heat. Use hand blender or potato masher to mash beans until approximately 50 percent of the beans remain intact. Serve over cooked white rice.

RED & BLACK BEANS AND RICE

Steps:

• *note:If you or your family are sensitive to MSG, don't use Sazon!
• You can substitute 1 tsp ground cumin, plus some garlic salt, if needed.
• In a large saucepan, heat olive oil over medium heat.
• Sauté onion and pepper until onion starts to look translucent.
• Add garlic and tomato.
• Stir in both cans of beans and heat to just boiling.
• Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.
• Stir in Sazon (or alternate seasoning).
• Serve over rice.

RED BEANS AND RICE

Steps:

• Slice sausage, then cut into quarters. Cook it in a large saucepan until well-browned for 5 to 8 minutes. (I added about one tsp of oil so that it would brown nicely).
• Add all the vegetables, including garlic, and saute until they begin to brown, about 10 minutes.
• Stir in bay leaves and thyme. Cook 1 or 2 minutes more.
• Add beans to pan. Using a potato masher, mash about one-fourth of them. Add chicken broth. Bring mixture to a boil. Lower heat and simmer, uncovered, for about 15-20 minutes until vegetables are tender and sauce is thick.
• Discard bay leaves. Season to taste with Tabasco, cayenne and black pepper. Serve over rice.

CHEF JOHN'S RED BEANS AND RICE

Steps:

• Place beans in a large container and cover with several inches of cool water; let stand 8 hours to overnight. Drain and rinse.
• Heat vegetable oil in a large pot over medium heat. Cook and stir sausage in hot oil until oils slightly release from sausage and edges brown, 5 to 7 minutes. Stir onion, celery, and poblano pepper into sausage; cook and stir until vegetables soften and start to turn translucent, 5 to 10 minutes. Stir garlic into sausage mixture; cook and stir until fragrant, about 1 minute.
• Stir red beans, chicken broth, ham hock, bay leaves, black pepper, thyme, cayenne pepper, and hot sauce into the sausage mixture; bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer gently, stirring occasionally, for 1 1/2 hours. Add salt and continue simmering until beans are soft, meat is tender, and desired consistency is reached, 1 1/2 to 2 hours more. Season with salt.
• Spoon rice into bowls, ladle red beans mixture over rice, and top with green onion.

BIG EASY RED BEANS N' RICE

Steps:

• Place the beans in a large bowl or pot and cover with water by 2 inches. Let soak for 8 hours or overnight. Drain and set aside.
• In a large pan, render the ham chunks by cooking until the fat becomes liquid, remove ham and place to the side.
• In the fat that remains sauté the onion, garlic, celery and parsley.In a large pot, combine the beans, water, meat, bay leaf, salt & pepper.
• Bring to slow boil, lower heat to simmer and cook for about 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally until beans are tender.
• Remove bay leaf and serve over rice.

CLASSIC RED BEANS AND RICE

Steps:

• Rinse the beans under cold water in a colander. Throw away any broken beans or pebbles. Put the beans into a large bowl and add enough water to cover them by about 2 inches. Soak overnight or for at least 8 hours. (Quick method = bring the beans and enough water to cover them by 2 inches to a boil in a large pot over high heat and cook for 2 minutes, then remove from the heat and cover tightly, let stand for 1 hour.).
• Heat up the oil in a big, heavy stockpot over med-high heat. Add the onions, bell peppers and garlic - cook, stirring, for about 4 minutes or until softened. Add the sausage, salt, Creole seasoning, cayenne, black pepper, thyme and the bay leaves. Cook, stirring, for about 4-5 minutes or until the sausage is browned. Add the ham hock and cook for 3 minutes.
• Drain the beans and add them to the pot. pour in enough stock to cover the whole mixture by about 1 inch. Bring this to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to med-low and simmer, uncovered, until the beans are tender, stirring occasionally - approx 2 hours. Remove and throw away the bay leaves.
• Mash up about 1/4 of the bean mixture. This will thicken the juices. Remove the ham hock and let cool slightly. Slice the meat from the bone, throwing away the skin and bones. Return the meat to the pot and heat it through.
• Spoon the rice into bowls and top with the beans. Relax and enjoy!

SHADOW'S RED BEANS AND RICE

Steps:

• Soak the beans overnight in water to cover.
• Drain and place in a heavy kettle.
• Add the ham,onion,celery,parsley, bay leaves, and garlic, and add water to the pot barely to cover contents.
• Bring to a boil, and then turn to simmer.
• Simmer uncovered for 2 hours.
• You may need to add a little water to keep from sticking.
• After the first 2 hours of cooking, add the butter, pepper, Worcestershire, and tabasco to the pot.
• Cover and cook on very low heat for 1 more hour.
• Serve over white rice cooked the following way:.
• This step should be preformed while the beans are cooking.
• Raw rice.
• Rinse rice 3 times in cold water.
• Add chicken boulion cube.
• Add tabasco sauce.
• Add file'.
• Bring rice to boil over medium high heat in water with boulion, tabasco, and file'.
• When bubbles disapear from the surface of the rice turn heat to low and cover.
• Let let cook for 20 minutes on this low heat.
• Remove from heat and let stand for at least 10 minutes but not more the 30 minutes.