Red beans and rice | Southern U.S. style

Summary by Krater

A home cook demonstrates how to make traditional red beans and rice using small red beans soaked with salt, holy trinity vegetables, tomato paste, ham hock, and spices, served alongside pasta-style cooked brown rice.

From the video

Answers: How do you make red beans and rice?

• Red beans and rice cooking
• Bean soaking methods
• Brown rice cooking techniques
• Gut health testing

Ingredients

• 1 lb red beans
• 15 grams salt
• olive oil
• 2 red onion
• 1 red bell pepper
• 2 stalks celery
• 1 to 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• water
• 1 ham hock
• paprika
• garlic powder
• cumin
• oregano
• dried sage
• 1 cup brown rice
• sugar
• vinegar
• hot sauce

What it concludes

• Soaking red beans with salt produces a creamier texture inside the beans.
• Cooking rice pasta-style in a large volume of excess water prevents gummy brown rice without needing to wash it.
• Adding acid like vinegar and hot sauce at the end of cooking brightens the flavor of the beans.