Spicy Red Bean & Rice

"Designed as a main course for vegetarians, but could easily be a side dish as well. Also, if you have to have your meat, you could add chicken or sausage."
 
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photo by KateL photo by KateL
photo by KateL
photo by KateL photo by KateL
Ready In:
35mins
Ingredients:
13
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat oil in saucepan. Add celery, green pepper, onion, and garlic. Heat until vegetables are beginning to get soft.
  • Add oregano, thyme, and cayenne pepper. Then, add tomato paste and vegetable broth.
  • Add red beans, salt, and rice. Let it come to a boil.
  • Cover and reduce heat to simmer. Let simmer for about 20-25 minutes.

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Reviews

  1. This is my favorite lunchtime entrée. I use a 1-lb. bag of small red beans, soaked with salt for 8 hours, then pressure cook them as Cuban Black beans with a ham hock. I drain off the liquid and use the cooked beans instead of the canned kidney beans called for in this recipe. Meanwhile, I will have already prepared 2 cups brown rice with its soaking and rinsing, then pressure cooking that. I prefer my rice to be separate from the beans for contrast. I let the resulting Spicy Bean mix cool. I pull out a stack of 1.25-cup Rubbermaid containers, put 1/2 cup of cooked rice in each container, then one ladleful of Spicy Beans on top. I put the lid on and freeze my individual portions. As a result, I could take a container from the freezer and let it thaw until lunch, and warm it up in the microwave. I usually had this with a garden salad. Very satisfying, and spicy enough to be interesting.
     
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  2. Oh, I'd give this more than 5 stars if I could!!! Just what the doctor ordered! I did use chicken broth instead of vegetable broth (because that's all I had on hand) and I added 1/2 lb. smoked sausage, cut into 1/4" dices...But this was SO good! And SO easy! Thank you for posting this, Chef! I must add that the tomato paste really made the dish -- different than the others I've tried! YUM! :)
     
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Tweaks

  1. 1) I made pressure-cooked Cuban beans with ham hock, and drained that to replace the canned beans. 2) I used 2 cups raw brown rice, which I pressure cooked ahead (I prefer my bean mixture to be separate from my rice).
     

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