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Bowl of red beans and rice with ham, turkey sausage, peppers, carrots, celery and onion.
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Red Beans and Rice

Red Beans and Rice is a hearty, flavorful recipe that comes together easily in the crockpot. Add ham and sausage and you've got a scrumptious supper or side dish!
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time7 hours
Total Time7 hours 10 minutes
Course: Dinner, Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine: Cajun/Creole
Keyword: red beans and rice, Side, Side Dish
Servings: 4
Calories: 427kcal
Author: Echo Blickenstaff

Equipment

  • Crockpot

Ingredients

  • meaty ham bone (a leftover spiral-sliced ham bone works great)
  • 2 cans chicken broth
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 large onion chopped
  • 2 celery stalks sliced
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 tablespoon Tony Chachere's Original Creole Seasoning
  • 2 cans red or kidney beans drained and rinsed
  • 12 ounces smoked turkey or chicken sausage ring lower fat, sliced
  • 3 carrots shredded
  • 1 green pepper chopped
  • 4 cups cooked rice any rice will work, I like Calrose rice

Instructions

  • Place meaty ham bone in a large crockpot. Add chicken broth, water, onion, celery, bay leaves, and Tony Chachere's Original Creole Seasoning.
    Crockpot with ham bone, chicken broth, celery, onion, seasoning and bay leaves.
  • Cook for 4-6 hours on high, or 8-10 hours on low.
    Ham bone, chicken broth, celery, onion, seasoning and bay leaves in a crock pot with lid.
  • Remove ham bone. When cool enough to handle, cut meat off the bone and coarsely chop into bite size pieces. Discard bone and return chopped ham to crockpot.
    Ham meat removed from bone and cut up into bite size pieces.
  • Add red or kidney beans, sausage, shredded carrots, and chopped green pepper to the crockpot and stir.
    Stirring in red beans, green bell peppers, shredded carrots and smoked turkey into crock pot.
  • Cook another 1 hour on high setting.
    Stirring red beans mixture in crock pot with a wooden spoon.
  • Cook rice on stovetop or in rice cooker.
    Cooked white rice in rice cooker.
  • Remove bay leaves.
    Taking out bay leaves from red beans in crock pot.
  • Serve in bowls over hot, cooked rice. Season to taste with salt and pepper, extra Tony Chachere's Original Creole Seasoning, or tabasco sauce.
    Spooning red beans on rice with ham, turkey sausage, peppers, carrots, celery and onion.

Notes

  • For an added spicy kick, try  Tony Chachere's Original Creole Seasoning. It adds just the right amount of spice to this recipe and so many others. We love this stuff!
  • To kick up the heat even more, add a few shakes of Tabasco sauce.
  • If you have leftover ham for any reason, toss it in! It adds so much flavor to the beans. But no need to rush out and buy a ham bone. Because it cooks all day in the Crockpot, the recipe is definitely savory and flavorful without.
  • Red beans and rice with sausage is my favorite! We use either smoked chicken or turkey sausage. It's lower in fat so it keeps the calories down and allows me to have an extra bowlful or two. But you can use any kind of sliced sausage you like. My husband likes a super spicy Andouille sausage in this recipe too.
  • This recipe calls for carrots, green pepper, onions and celery, but you can add other veggies too! Or serve with a side of corn on the cob or collard greens for a well rounded meal.

Nutrition

Calories: 427kcal | Carbohydrates: 59g | Protein: 19g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 60mg | Sodium: 1477mg | Potassium: 491mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 8663IU | Vitamin C: 42mg | Calcium: 61mg | Iron: 2mg