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Topic: Anybody have a good cajun red beans and rice recipe

Terminius_Est Title: Moon River Posts: 40,732 Registered: Feb 27, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 40,160 User ID: 651,096	Subject: Anybody have a good cajun red beans and rice recipe
	I have three links of good andouille and dried red beans. The beans are boiling but now I'm looking for the rest, I have gumbo file, Tony Sacheries, and hot sauce. I'll go get onion, bell pepper, and celery shortly. That's the basics but I'm not sure how to put it all together. -----signature----- There is no emotion, there is peace. There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no chaos, there is harmony. There is no death, there is the FORCE. Sci/Fi Bookshelf http://tinyurl.com/2z8u9h
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Anotherstormslayer Title: Viking Lord Posts: 38,853 Registered: Feb 16, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 37,802 User ID: 646,317	Subject: Anybody have a good cajun red beans and rice recipe
	I use the following chili con carne recipe just switch the meat to a pound or two of bacon and or diced ham and do not add rue or flower. I make white rice on the side using Joy of Cooking's boiled rice recipe #2. I then plate the rice and lade the beans on top. Then top with a generous layer of salsa. I suggest you modify your favorite chili con carne in a similar manner. My chili I start with a bag of Ham' n 'Beans Brand 15 bean Cajun soup mix. Just follow the recipe on the bag to cook the beans both methods work well Oh I usually add an additional cup of water or 2 when cooking the dry beans. A glass top Dutch oven works best for the quick method as it must stay covered the entire hour of boiling or the beans might not get soft. You want a boil not a slow boil or a rapid boil with the quick method and it is next to impossible to adjust the temp correctly with the lid off. If you want to use cooked beans I suppose that is ok too but the only canned chili beans worth a crap were Brooks and I have not seen them on the shelf in years. I would just get about 4 15-16 oz cans of kidney and whatever color of beans you want to add. Don't dis card the bean juice if your using canned. You need to fry down about 4 lbs of ground meat I usually use a mix of pork and beef. Once it is browned and crumbled a pastry knife works well to crumble the meat in the pan continue to cook. I add about a ¼ cup or a bit more of dry basil at this point. And then add a large diced onion and prep a clove or 2 of garlic for each lb of meat. Sauté the onions about 5 to 10 minutes these until the onion becomes translucent then add the finely diced (or crushed if you used a press) garlic and sauté for a minute or so longer. To the beans add 2 28 oz cans of crushed or diced tomatoes and one 28 oz can of tomato sauce. And usually one of the 28 oz cans full of water. I then add spice. The Ham' n 'Beans Brand comes with a spice pack for some people it will be hot enough. I usually add a small bottle of a Tabasco type sauce or two and about a ¼ to ½ cup of cayenne pepper I also add about table spoon of celery seed, about a cup of dry parsley, a couple of teaspoons of salt and a teaspoon of black pepper. Drain excess grease from the meat. Now I have several large pots so I half the meat between two Dutch ovens or a larger stockpot. If I had a 5 gallon stockpot I could do this phase in one pot but. Any way back on track here I have the bean mix on top of the meat and stir. I then mix-wisk (this is critical else you will have soup not chili gravy) of ½ cup flour into 2 cups of cold water and strain it into the chili to remove lumps (there should not be any). I then simmer the mix for at least an hour. This recipe will feed a lot of people but chili can easily be frozen and reheated in a microwave. The above would probably feed a dozen or more people I figure about 2/3 to a cup of uncooked rice per meal. Hope this helps with red beans and rice you do not want to thicken the sauce. -----signature----- The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to b
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Terminius_Est Title: Moon River Posts: 40,732 Registered: Feb 27, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 40,160 User ID: 651,096	Subject: Anybody have a good cajun red beans and rice recipe
	Thank you, I'll give that a try. -----signature----- There is no emotion, there is peace. There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no chaos, there is harmony. There is no death, there is the FORCE. Sci/Fi Bookshelf http://tinyurl.com/2z8u9h
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