recipes and tips for red beans

This has been perfect every time


Find the best quality smoked meats you can to make it.

Blue runner is so good that I just go with that. I brown my sausage (coated in Tony's) and sautee some trinity and garlic, then add the beans and a little water. Let it simmer 30 min and you are good to go.

Blue Runner ships! They also have giant cans (heh heh) that you can buy.

If you like your beans to have a soft skin, add salt to your overnight soak so that you have a brine. I learned this tip from America's Test Kitchen and that's the only way I do it now.

The brine chemically changes the skin so that it cooks quicker, in the same time as the interior of the bean. I hate red beans where you have a bunch of blown out hard skins in there.

I also like to add chopped green onions and parsley near the end.

Nice tutorial on good red beans that one of my friends wrote.

2 lbs red beans beans, soaked
1 t each, thyme, oregano and basil
Salt, black and red pepper to taste
2 onions, fine diced
2 ribs celery, fine diced
1/2 bell pepper, fine diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 bay leaves
1 or 2 minced jalapeño peppers
4 T minced flat leaf parsley
1 bunch green onions, fine diced
2 or 3 smoked pork hocks
10 + cups of water or stock (add more if needed)


Sauté the trinity in a bit of oil, adding the herbs and garlic once the onions are clear. Add the stock and all other ingredients, bringing to a boil.

Cut the fire to low and simmer covered , stirring often, until the beans are about to break. Mash some to the pot for creaminess. You can brown a lb of sausage at the start to add in the last 30 minutes of cooking if you wish.

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Throw all dat in a crock pot and go to work

Come home and cook some rice

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what he said ...

but, if you want a recipe, buy a subscription to america's test kitchen (as the previous poster said) ... they'll have a recipe that gets it right every time ...

The ragin Cajun brand won my wife 100 bucks at our company cookoff. She adds sausage and trinity cooked down almost as good as my mimi's down in jeanerette.

Walmart in Atlanta carries Blue Runner, but only the small cans of red beans.

Well, the location in Lawrenceville off of Sugarloaf and 29 does anyway. They also have Camellia red beans.

How big of a batch you trying to make? Do you have a big crock pot? (7qt.)

Wanna be a fatty? Put your red beans on top of a ritz cracker.