Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, red beans and rice. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Red Beans and Rice is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Red Beans and Rice is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red beans and rice using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Red Beans and Rice:

1. Get soaked red beans
2. Prepare chicken stock
3. Make ready small white onions, chopped
4. Make ready bell pepper, chopped
5. Prepare celery, chopped
6. Take bay leaves
7. Get andouille sausage
8. Take garlic, finely minced
9. Make ready smoked ham hocks
10. Make ready chopped parsley
11. Get ground dry thyme
12. Prepare cayenne pepper
13. Take cumin
14. Make ready salt
15. Make ready fresh ground black pepper
16. Get Sliced Green Onions
17. Prepare Cooked Rice
18. Prepare Tabasco
19. Take Butter

Steps to make Red Beans and Rice:

1. Brown andouille in a large crock pot, remove when browned on all sides, reserve.
2. Add onions and sweat with a bit of salt until translucent in butter.
3. Add celery, bell pepper, and garlic. Cook until fragrant.
4. Add cayenne, cumin, dry thyme, and pepper. Stir to combine.
5. Add chicken stock to pot, as well as the ham hocks, bay leaves, and the soaked red beans, bring to a boil and cover, stirring occasionally.
6. When beans are cooked through and tender, remove bay leaves and ham hocks (reserve the hocks), then use an immersion blender or your wooden spatula to break a portion of the beans down to give the dish a creamy texture. Reduce heat to a bare simmer.
7. Slice reserved andouille, and break ham hocks down, removing the meat from the bones. Discard bones and skin. Add meats back to pot and stir to combine.
8. When meat is brought up to temp (about 5 minutes), add chopped parsley, stir, and serve immediately over rice. Top with green onions and tabasco/crystal hot sauce to taste.

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