Louisiana-style red kidney beans are typically cooked down in water or chicken or vegetable broth with sautéed onions, bell pepper, and celery (also known as “the Holy Trinity”) and garlic.
The cooking liquid is further flavored with herbs and spices that may include any combination of bay leaves, parsley, thyme, rosemary, basil, oregano, and cayenne and/or black peppers. Leftover or inexpensive cuts of meat, such as smoked ham, pickled pork, sausage or wild game, are often simmered with the beans to impart specific flavors. “Heat” spices are usually kept relatively tame, allowing the diner to personalize his or her serving to taste with condiments offered at the table.
Once that plate of red beans hits the table, it’s anything goes.
If you put red beans and rice in front of three different people from three different Louisiana families, you’ll see at least three different ways to dress up those beans before they take a bite.
Common tableside additions to the red beans and rice dish include hot pepper sauce, sliced green onions, chow-chow (a mustard and pickle relish), a big dollop of butter, ketchup, mayonnaise, pickled white onions, olive oil, and vinegar.
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Top off with French's yellow mustard! Yum!
Liquid Crab Boil...but not too much!
Did to much. Was good but only eat a small amount. It was only a tablespoon in 2 packs of beans. Dry jerk seasoning is better. Again not too much. That is a cure for tcommon cold.
A nice fresh piece of salt meat, fresh squeezed garlic, green onions, parsley, and1 large diced yellow onion, don't forget the big cooking spoon of Mazola Corn Oil for creamy beans! These are the best!! Cooked in a crock pot!!!!
Chili powder and allspice with a little vinegar in the cooking liquid then topped with chopped onions and jalapenos or pickled white onions. So good!
Serve with cornbread and collard greens! MmmmnummNummy!
Trappy's these Bull louisiana hot sauce , and sweet yellow cornbread.
worcestershire added early, french bread with a hard crust and smoked sausage.
top mine with chopped green onions.....yum!!
Onions, garlic, bacon and/or ham hock, bay leaves and a couple of dried ancho peppers in the beans and my Mama's sweet pepper/onion relish on top
Serve with chow chow and buttermilk white cornbread.
I've never heard of Chow Chow. What part of Louisiana does that come from?
I know its a southern thing...its a relish made with cabbage and green tomatoes...goes great with beans and rice.