Classic Reddish Beans In Addition To Rice

Ingredients:
xvi oz dried small-scale cherry beans*
four cups chicken or ham stock
three stalks celery (with leaves), diced
1 onion, diced
three cloves garlic, sliced
three cubanelle peppers, diced
1/2 teaspoon thyme
1/2 teaspoon soil cayenne
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1 1/2 tablespoons Creole seasoning
freshly soil dark pepper
salt
1 lb andouille sausage, sliced into 1/4 inch coins together with hence halved


to serve:
a few cups of cooked, white rice
chopped parsley for garnish (optional)



Directions:
THE DAY BEFORE YOU WANT TO SERVE THIS:
In a large pot amongst a lid, soak the beans overnight. Drain the beans together with provide them to the pot. Fill amongst H2O together with convey to a boil for at to the lowest degree ten minutes**.

Drain the beans together with add together them to a four quart tiresome cooker. Add the stock, celery, onion, garlic, peppers, thyme together with bay leaf. Stir. Cook on depression 8-10 hours.

About 30-45 minutes earlier y'all would similar to eat,  use a murphy masher to squelch roughly of the beans inward in the tiresome cook. Stir.

Meanwhile, chocolate-brown the sausage on both sides inward a nonstick skillet. Stir into the beans. Continue to set upwards the remaining 30-45 minutes. Stir earlier serving over hot rice.

*You tin post away purpose kidney beans exactly I discovery that smaller cherry beans (aka frijoles rojos pequeños) yields a creamier in conclusion product.

**Red beans must last cooked earlier serving inward gild to avoid kidney edible bean poisoning. Do non skip the boiling step.

My thoughts:

I had inexplicable craving for cherry beans together with rice the other day. I mean, I ever savor it when I select it exactly beans together with rice isn't commonly something I crave. I set it out of my caput exactly together with hence I saw roughly Texas-made andouille sausage on sale hence it seemed destined that I brand it.

This calendar week I was set upwards amongst an awful mutual frigidness exactly I was nonetheless able to line it together long plenty to chop roughly vegetables inward the morning time together with popular everything inward the tiresome cooker. Then it cooked forever, I browned roughly sausage together with at that topographic point it was: creamy, comforting cherry beans together with rice. I was happy without how good it turned out: good seasoned exactly non crazy spicy together with the beans were super creamy the agency I similar them.