Creole Beans and Rice
A densely nutritious dish with tender kidney beans, Andouille sausage, okra, kale and aged Basmati rice..
Creole Beans and Rice
Soak dried red beans overnight. Rinse, cover with fresh filtered water and bring to a boil. Add a bay leaf, reduce heat and simmer until just tender, about 2 hours.
Sauté bias-cut Andouille sausage with a little pancetta or fatty bacon until browned. Add diced yellow onions, celery and bell peppers and cook until vegetables soften.
Add okra, seeded jalapeño, garlic, and chiffonade of kale and sauté 2-3 minutes.
Add cooked beans, black pepper, caraway, dill, oregano, cumin, thyme and paprika and simmer 20 minutes, adding bean-cooking water as needed to keep moist.
To serve, mound Basmati rice in the center of a bowl or dinner plate and ladle bean mixture around the perimeter. Offer Louisiana hot sauce on the side.
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Dink said,
September 13, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Sounds and looks good but will the okra police come and get me if I leave that out? :-)
Ren said,
September 13, 2009 at 6:28 pm
You’ll probably be OK
pamelaknits said,
September 13, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Huge link below Ren………I tried to post it on Twitter for your question on what’s happening to your pepper plants…Twitter was bonkers. So came over here. Don’t know if this is the exact thing or similar. We pulled all of our pepper plants…picked every pepper off no matter the size, pulled the plants and got rid of them. Some type of wilt…possible fusarium. We weren’t the only ones with it. Our tomato plants were having same thing. They are now pulled out to be burned. The constant rains this summer have caused many an issue in the garden this summer. Hope this helps you or gets you on the right track. Or maybe you’ve found out already!
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Ren said,
September 13, 2009 at 7:47 pm
That’s some crazy link! Not the same bug, though..
What is this bug?
lynn byrd said,
September 14, 2009 at 10:01 am
I’m in NC and had tomato and pepper problems all summer. Nothing thrived.
Ren said,
September 14, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Sorry to hear that, Lynn! Did your plants pickup the blight that hit the NE this year?
Dink said,
September 14, 2009 at 11:49 am
In Virginia…my tomatoes were awesome tho many strangely shaped. Bell peppers beautiful. Hot peppers still haven’ t produced..? And fall cabbage has something eating the leaves. Had trouble with that with beans too. Would the neems oil work on all that? Never have seen a bug…just the holes in the leaves. Lutie…if you’re reading these posts, tell us about drenching.
Ren said,
September 14, 2009 at 5:39 pm
I got ONE bell pepper and my jalapeños came through, but nothing from the other 6 or so types of peppers that I planted.
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susartandfood said,
June 1, 2010 at 5:02 pm
I lived in the south for quite a while. This is one of my favorite dishes, at times we lived on it. Hard to come by good Andouille sausage out here in California I’m afraid. I’ve been ordering it on the Internet. I’m not an okra fan either, I know, I know, very unpopular to say, but it still tastes like wallpaper paste to me. Fried, whatever, same taste, same texture. Going to try this recipe, however, looks great. Mine has always been heavy on the cumin. Caraway seeds are interesting. Have to try that.