Southern
Southern Red Beans and Rice
Southern 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
- 1 onion
- 3 celery stalks
- 1 green bell pepper
- 5 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp Cajun seasoning
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 2 bay leaves
- 6 cups vegetable broth
- 2 cups long-grain rice
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 3 green onions
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Soak the red beans in plenty of water overnight, then drain.
- Heat the olive oil in a large pot and cook the onion, celery, bell pepper, and garlic until soft, about 7 minutes.
- Stir in the Cajun seasoning, smoked paprika, and thyme, then add the beans, bay leaves, and broth.
- Bring to a boil, then simmer, partly covered, until the beans are very tender, about 1.5 hours, mashing some against the pot to thicken.
- Meanwhile cook the rice according to the package.
- Season the beans with salt, discard the bay leaves, and serve over the rice topped with sliced green onions.
Serve it with
A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Southern 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. Southern Red Beans and Rice carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| 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
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Partial
- Food groups it covers
- Pulses, Grains, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Southern Red Beans and Rice takes about 120 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 bean, rice, and celery.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
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