Red Beans and Rice

Red beans and rice

Crockpot recipes, how can you go wrong? Iowa Girl posted this on Fat Tuesday and I wanted to make it so badly but I had to wait until Friday. I invited Ian and our friends Michael and Erin over to enjoy the meal. We still had tons of leftovers but I sent the boys home with a huge tupperware full of it and kept two servings for myself for dinners this week. It turned out pretty good, it was spicy though! A tad too spicy for me but not too spicy for everyone else. We also had homemade garlic bread, salad and beer with it. 

Ingredients:

1 bell pepper, chopped

1 medium onion, chopped

3 celery stalks, chopped

3 garlic cloves, minced

14oz andouille sausage, sliced

3 tablespoons Creole seasoning (I made 1/3 of this recipe (16 servings))

1lb dried red kidney beans

7 cups water

white rice

Directions:

Place first 8 ingredients into a 4-quart crock pot and cook on high for 7.5 hours. Remove the lid partway for the last 30 minutes to allow the sauce to thicken slightly. Serve over cooked white rice.

For the Creole seasoning, I didn't have any cayenne or thyme on hand so I used Franks hot sauce (1 TBS) and left out the thyme. 

Thanks IGE for this yummy recipe!