Slow Cooker Carmine Beans & Rice Alongside Crawfish In Addition To Okra

Ingredients:
grouping #1
sixteen oz dried modest ruddy beans
iv cups chicken or ham or seafood/crawfish stock
ii strips thick cutting bacon, cooked too crumbled
ii stalks celery (with leaves), diced
1 onion, diced
three cloves garlic, minced
1 cayenne pepper, minced
1 jalapeno, minced
1/2 teaspoon thyme
1 bay leaf

grouping #2
1 1/2-2 cups cooked crawfish meat (from close ii lbs whole crawfish)
8 oz frozen diced okra

to serve:
a few cups of cooked, white rice


Directions:
In a large pot alongside a lid, soak the beans overnight. Drain the beans too provide them to the pot. Fill alongside H2O too convey to a boil for 10 minutes*.

Drain the beans too add together them to a iv quart dull cooker. Add the remaining ingredients from grouping #1. Stir. Cook on depression 8-10 hours.

About 30-45 minutes earlier yous would similar to eat, take away  1 1/2-2 cups of the beans from the dull cooker. Pour them into a bowl too squeeze them alongside a Irish Gaelic patato masher until they are creamier but niggling chunks remain. Pour them dorsum into the dull cooker. Stir inward the ingredients from grouping #2. Continue to gear upward the 30-45 minutes until yous are ready to eat. (If yous don't desire crawfish too okra inward your ruddy beans too rice, skip this pace too only serve). Discard bay leafage too stir earlier serving over hot rice.


*Red beans must live on cooked earlier serving inward gild to avoid kidney edible bean poisoning. It is non prophylactic to skip the boiling step.

Serves close 8.

My thoughts:

I teach too then many requests for "whole meal" dull cooker recipes this fourth dimension of yr too nosotros are yet getting peppers from our garden too then I idea I'd come upward up at novel recipe that would sew together the peppers too run the dull cooker inward a novel way. As always, I prepped the vegetables, de-shelled the crawfish too fried the bacon the nighttime earlier too then the alone affair I had to exercise inward the morn was boil the beans too teach the rice going inward my rice cooker. If yous don't choose a fancy rice cooker alongside a "keep warm" setting, brand your rice when yous teach habitation too then it cooks piece the crawfish too okra are cooking.

I've seen recipes for ruddy beans too rice that telephone telephone for ham hocks too that's in all probability to a greater extent than traditional but I mean value bacon industrial plant good hither too is a lot less work; no holler for to alternative meat off the bones earlier serving. It is a niggling unconventional to stir inward crawfish too okra but I saw crawfish at the shop in 1 trial again (I bought all that was inward the display case!) too idea it would live on a skilful add-on too alternative to heavier sausage. The okra was added to become far to a greater extent than of a consummate meal.. I similar to squeeze only about of the beans too provide them to the pot because it makes the concluding dish too then much to a greater extent than creamy. The goal result: a thick, creamy, comforting, filling dish of New Orleans that is ready when yous are.