Cooking Recipe Red Beans & Rice With Smoked Sausage
Recipe Ingredients
1 lb
Dried red beans
1 1/2 lb
Smoked sausage cut
Into chunks
8 oz
Smoked ham shanks
1
Large onion chopped
Salt
1
Garlic clove chopped
1 ts
Dried thyme
1 ts
Ground pepper
1/2 ts
Sage
1 pn
Cayenne pepper
Freshly cooked rice
Directions
Place beans in Dutch oven and cover generously with water. Let soak 30
minutes.
Add remaining ingredients to beans except salt and rice. Bring to
boil over medium high heat.
Reduce heat to medium low, cover and simmer until beans are tender,
adding more water if necessary (about 2 1/2 hours). Add salt to taste.
Discard ham bones.
Remove about 3 tablespoons of beans from mixture and mash to
paste; return to Dutch oven and stir. Simmer 15 more minutes. Serve
over hot rice.