Regardless, we know you will love it! Is this red beans and rice copycat a spicy recipe? We hope you’ll make it and give us your take. We included it in ours (as we did in our spicy pimento cheese) and we proudly proclaim it to be the secret ingredient. In doing our research we found an old school recipe that called for a bit of apple cider vinegar. Still others think it’s a dab of bacon grease. Some folks think the addition of the liquid smoke is the secret ingredient. We’ve used chicken stock (or broth) too, but that could easily be replaced with vegetable stock for a true vegetarian version. We offer an option for adding spicy andouille sausage to yours if you want to kick it up a notch and make it extra hearty.Įither way, a little liquid smoke gives some of the great flavor you would get in the original method, which usually had ham hocks. You can add meat or make it vegetarianĪt Popeyes there is no meat in the beans and rice. Using canned red beans makes a still delicious pot of red beans and you can have it on the table in 30 minutes. Even so, you’d approach evening with a good meal ready to eat.Įnter today’s lifestyle: We don’t know anyone who dedicates an entire day to doing laundry and we’re all about quick and easy meals when we can. Putting a pot of beans and rice on the stove to cook slowly meant you could dedicate your time to something other than cooking – like laundry. Traditionally, Monday was “wash day” or the day the laundry was done in most homes. Those beans soaked and then cooked slowly all day. It was originally made from dried red beans (and still is in lots of cases). The history of the dish itself tells the story. We developed this recipe to be quick and easy, so the truth is, it’s probably not what you would consider “authentic.” They originated in the New Orleans area and spicy chicken and the best biscuits and sides are what they’re known for. In all seriousness we usually stay away from fast food, but the one exception is Popeye’s and you can probably guess why we love them. We thought “ why reinvent the wheel? Let’s just see if we can recreate Popeyes Red Beans and Rice.” One Creole dish that we didn’t have a recipe for yet is a favorite of ours and many others. We’ve got recipes for everything from gumbo to jambalaya to etouffee and Cajun crab dip. We love our Cajun and Creole foods over here so much that we have an entire category of recipes dedicated to those neighboring cuisines. You can add sausage or make it vegetarian. Quick and easy to make red beans and rice is the perfect knock off of your favorite side dish from Popeyes.
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