/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.5471157]

What's the secret to a good rice n' beans?

Post yer recipes!

[Anonymous No.5471165]

The secret is meat. Throw in pork hocks or some shredded chicken breast.

[Anonymous No.5471169]

Place 1 lb beans in the pot with a smoked ham hock and boil covered for about 30 minutes or until beans begin to become tender. Then, add 1 diced onion, 1 diced bellpepper, 3 stalks diced celery, 2 cloves minced garlic, 2 bay leaves, 1 lb smoked sausage, and cajun seasoning to taste. Simmer uncovered, stirring every 10-15 minutes for about 2 hours or until creamy in consistency. Serve with cornbread and ice cold milk or beer.

PS the attentive stirring is critical. If only a few beans burn to the bottom of the pot the batch will be ruined.

[Anonymous No.5471172]

>>5471169
forgot, should take about 10 c of water.
>>5471165
this is right, smoked ham hock or smoked turkey wing is essential.

[Anonymous No.5471177]

>>5471172
What about some bacon?

[Anonymous No.5471224]

I just dress up a little Zataran's.

[Anonymous No.5471234]

Beans and rice together in the same pot?!?

Thats crazy!

[Anonymous No.5471276]

>>5471169
>PS the attentive stirring is critical. If only a few beans burn to the bottom of the pot the batch will be ruined.
We have a different attitude about that in my family. The key is to use a nice heavy-bottomed pot (most Puerto Rican families own an aluminum caldero which is perfect for rice and beans). It is important that you DO NOT stir very much or the entire batch will be ruined. Also a crispy (not burnt) layer of rice on the bottom of the pot is prized.

We usually saute our meat(s) onions, etc. first (we also use sofrito, a mash or paste of peppers, garlic, and cilantro, sometimes other ingredients). Then we add the beans, water, and rice and seasonings, boil/simmer uncovered until the water is mostly absorbed, then turn the rice gently, but do not stir, then reduce heat and cover to steam cook for 30-45 minutes.

Different methods turn out different results. Our rice and beans should never be creamy, but should be fluffy yet firm, no grains sticking together.

[Anonymous No.5471281]

>>5471177
Bacon works fine too. You could also use chorizo. We usually use a combination of chorizo and ham because ham flavor is preferred. You could also use beef or chicken stock instead of water.

[Anonymous No.5471287]

>>5471276
What if I'm using canned beans? And what kind of beans?

[Anonymous No.5471296]

>>5471287
Actually that IS for canned beans. If you were using dried, you would soak and cook them first. We most commonly use pigeon peas, but you can use whatever bean you like.

[Anonymous No.5471300]

>>5471157
Add MSG to add flavor.

[Anonymous No.5471340]

The ultimate question:

Beef, Chicken, or Pork stock?

[Anonymous No.5471352]

>>5471340
If you have pork use that. Beef isn't suited for kidney beans...

[Anonymous No.5471356]

>>5471340
>anything but pork

gringo please gringo away

[Anonymous No.5471394]

>>5471340

You use the stock from boiling the beans

[Bleak !DPKFpqEOXE No.5471399]

Garlic salt and ketchup.

[Anonymous No.5472573]

>>5471352
So I guess you won't want to talk about beef in kidney bean chili.

[Anonymous No.5472576]

>>5471276
Do you throw in the rice uncooked with this method?

[Anonymous No.5472726]

>>5471276
>Also a crispy (not burnt) layer of rice on the bottom of the pot is prized.
In the Caribbean this is know as the 'pot cake'. The local stray dogs are also called Pot Cakes because that's what the people feed them.

[Anonymous No.5472774]

>>5471340
I use chicken stock for everything.

[Anonymous No.5473365]

cook and serve them in separate dishes. Use plain steamed rice. For vegetarian beans add diced squash instead of bacon, paprika, garlic and bay leaves to season.

[Anonymous No.5473715]

curry powder

[Anonymous No.5475622]

>>5471165
>>5471169
>>5471172
>>5471177
>"hue hue put bacon in everything to make it better!" "ALSO BUTTER"

>>5471234
this.

side by side is better, but I am also okay with in the same pot.

>>5471224
precooked rice? why?


>>5471276
cast iron or stainless steal is best, copper or aluminum or teflon = poison

>>5471340
shitake mushroom stock for me


>>5473365
why add squash to everything? a well seasoned batch of beans and plain white rice tastes the best over some added filler.

[Anonymous No.5475623]

>>5475622
steel* my bad

[Anonymous No.5475635]

>>5475622
>smoked ham hock = bacon
>mushroom stock over chicken
>plain white rice taste the best

Too much bait for one post

[Anonymous No.5475672]

>>5475635
>implying there is no such thing as people liking different things as you

[Dan !1HT2T40IyY No.5475702]

>>5471157

I buy 2 or 3 cans of giant baked beans in tomato sauce. These are really delicious and usually imported from Greece. Then I will mix that in with a pot of cooked white or brown rice. I'll add some crispy bacon, chopped chicken and some good sauteed German or Polish sausage. I also usually add some fried onion and mushrooms. Season it with fresh ground pepper and if you want drizzle a little hot sauce in there. It's very tasty.

[Anonymous No.5475734]

>>5472726
ooooooooohhhhhh kill em

[Anonymous No.5476429]

>>5475622
I literally just dressed up some zataran's and it was awesome. Of course, I made the stock over six hours, made some near-caramelized onions n' celery sweated in bacon grease with some white wine adobo as a deglaze, two spoons of homemade chili garlic paste, and threw in some seared minced wild turkey heart and liver.

Shit was great, man.

[Anonymous No.5476508]

i literally just emptied a can of black eyed peas into my cast iron, seasoned them while rice was in the rice cooker.

mixed when done.

now im full as shit

[Anonymous No.5476579]

>not cooking rice and beans with butter and lizano sause
plebs

[Anonymous No.5476585]

>>5471340
veal stock bud

[Anonymous No.5476594]

ITT: Poor people.

[Anonymous No.5476598]

>>5476508
My nigga
I do mine the same, though I like to add a can of corn and a packet of taco seasoning.

Its cheap as shit, fills you up, and lasts you a couple days.

[Anonymous No.5476602]

>>5476594
beans and rice are always good.

[Anonymous No.5476603]

>>5476598
At that rate what the hell is the point of any seasoning?

[Anonymous No.5476607]

>>5476603
I like that 'taco' flavor

[Anonymous No.5476614]

>>5476602
Beans and rice are subsistence level food. A step above gruel in that it has actual texture. But basically the same thing. The only thing that could make it edible is goya packets of flavor shit and frying the crap in oil. Learning that changed my life.

[Anonymous No.5476615]

>>5476614
Well, there's good broth, garlic chili paste, and braised shit-cuts of meat

[Anonymous No.5476622]

>>5476614
>i have never had jambalaya

fixed that for you bud

[Anonymous No.5476624]

>>5476615
Not exactly everyday (poor spick island nigger) R&B but yeah, that vastly improves it.

[Anonymous No.5476629]

>>5476622
>putting beans in your jambalaya

It's all meat, baby

[Anonymous No.5477410]

The secret? Ham hock, cayenne, and the holy trinity (onion, bell pepper, and parsley)

I also like to add some crystal to mine. Pretty much the only thing i still use it for

[Anonymous No.5477427]

Soften onions
Add some tomato puree concentrate
Add butterbeans
Add some bean-water and a stock cube, or some stock
Add cayenne, lots
Simmer until thick
serve on rice

[Anonymous No.5477566]

>>5471340
>stock
Stock is for plebs. Make your own from boiling chicken in water.

[Anonymous No.5477582]

>>5477566
Do you know what stock is?

[Anonymous No.5477584]

>>5477566
>boiling your stocks, broths, consommes, and fumets

[Anonymous No.5477943]

>>5471157
Islander here (Grew up in honduras).
Get red beans I don't care what kind of red beans if they're red they're most likely good.
Boil those niggas with 4-6 cloves of garlic in a pot that you can sacrifice getting stained for 48 hours to soften them up.
Basic white rice will do, you can use brown rice if you want I could care less it's your food. start boiling it in coconut milk, yes coconut milk half way through the cooking put in the beans for rice and beans.

[Anonymous No.5477968]

>>5477584
Wait... what's the difference between the four?