Best Mama Millies Spicy Red Beans Rice Recipes

MAMA'S RED BEANS & RICE

Steps:

• Speed soak kidney beans by covering with water and bringing to rolling boil for 2-5 minutes. Cover, remove from heat, and let sit for an hour.
• Render fat from bacon or ham to coat bottom of dutch oven OR use about 2 Tabelspoons oil to brown andouille sausage.
• Once sausage is browned, remove from pan and set aside.
• In fat left over from sausage, saute onions, celery, carrots, and bell pepper until translucent and beginning to brown scraping up the fond from the sausage.
• Add the garlic and cook for an additional 2-3 minutes. DO NOT let the garlic burn!
• Add ham hocks and ham bone to the pot and cover with water.
• Bring to boil and simmer, covered, for 2 hours.
• Mix together in small bowl salt, garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, cayenne pepper, oregano, thyme, and paprika; set aside.
• Once ham is falling off the bone and ham hocks are beginning to fall apart, remove about 2 cups of water/stock from the pot.
• Remove the bones and return the meat to the pot.
• Drain what liquid is left from the beans and dump beans into the ham and stock mixture.
• Dump browned andouille sausage into ham, bean, and stock mixture.
• Add spice mixture and bay leaves to the pot and mix in well.
• Cover and simmer for 1-2 hours.
• While simmering the beans, cook your favorite rice. You'll need at least 3-4 cups. My family really likes rice so I usually double that.
• Remove the bay leaves and any bone or skin pieces from ham hock.
• When ready to eat, if there still seems to be too much liquid on the beans, just ladle the excess liquid off. (I find that some days are just more humid and there's a lot of liquid, and some days there's hardly any.).
• Serve meaty bean mixture over the top of hot rice.
• If desired, use some good hot sauce on top. Enjoy!

SPICY RED BEANS AND RICE

Steps:

• Sort and rinse beans.
• In a large Dutch oven or kettle, place all ingredients except parsley and rice.
• Bring to a boil, then simmer, covered for 3-4 hours or until beans are tender.
• Stir occasionally, adding water as needed to make a thick gravy.
• Just before serving remove bay leaves and stir in parsley.
• Serve over rice.

MAMA MILLIE'S SPICY RED BEANS & RICE

Steps:

• Sort through beans to remove the bad ones and any tiny rocks or debris.
• Put sorted beans into a colander and hold under the faucet and wash beans thoroughly with cold water. Set aside.
• Heat a large pot (at least a 6 quart) and add 2 tbsp. bacon grease (or oil) then add diced onion and bell pepper. Sautee till onions are translucent then remove from pot.
• While onions & peppers are sautéing cut up sausage. I like to cut in half lengthwise then slice.
• Add 1 tbsp. bacon grease to pot then the sausage. Fry on med heat for about 5 minutes.
• Add bay leaf, stir for a few seconds then add water, the sautéed pepper & onion, beans and the spices. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, then cover and simmer for 3-4 hours, stirring every so often. You want the beans to be soft. If you need to add more water, do so. Taste and add salt and pepper if needed before serving. * Remove bay leaf before serving.
• Once beans are done, if the bean juice is too thin just bring beans back up to a fast boil. In a small bowl add 1/4 cup cold water with about 2 tbsp. cornstarch stirred into it and poured this slurry into the boiling beans while stirring. Boil for 20 seconds and turn off heat.
• Rice In medium pot add 3 cups water, the salt and butter. Bring to a boil then add 1 1/2 cups rice and return to a boil. Cover and reduce heat to low. Cook times vary with rice so follow directions on package. Mine cooks for 20 minutes then I turn heat off and leave covered for 5 minutes. fluff rice. Put 1/2 cup rice in bowl then add the beans and enjoy !