Southern
Red Beans and Rice
Red Beans and Rice is Southern home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1 lb dried red kidney beans
- 12 oz andouille sausage
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion
- 2 celery stalks
- 1 green bell pepper
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp cajun seasoning
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 2 cups long-grain white rice
- 1 tbsp hot sauce
- 3 scallions
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Soak the kidney beans in plenty of cold water overnight, then drain and rinse.
- Heat the olive oil in a heavy pot over medium and brown the sliced sausage, then add the onion, celery, bell pepper, and garlic and cook 6 minutes.
- Stir in the cajun seasoning, smoked paprika, bay leaves, and thyme, then add the beans and enough water to cover by 2 inches.
- Bring to a boil, reduce to a low simmer, and cook until the beans are creamy, about 90 minutes, adding water as needed.
- Mash some of the beans against the side of the pot to thicken, then season with the hot sauce and salt.
- Meanwhile cook the rice separately, then spoon the beans over the rice and top with scallions.
Serve it with
A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Red Beans and Rice, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Red Beans and Rice carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish, Pulses, Grains, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Red Beans and Rice takes about 130 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on red bean, sausage, and rice.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
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Cook this with your whole family
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