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Mother’s Red Beans

user-submission — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 22:12:08 +0000

Ingredients:

1/2 pound ham fat, cut into 1/4-inch dice
1 pound ham, cut into chunks
1 pound smoked sausage, sliced
1/2 pound onions, diced
1/3 pound bell pepper, diced
1/4 pound green onions, diced
3 ounces garlic, minced
1/3 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon thyme
2 bay leaves
2 pounds Camellia Brand Red Kidney Beans, rinsed and sorted (Pre-soak overnight to soften, if desired.)
2 quarts chicken stock
2 quarts beef stock
1 ham bone

Directions:

In a large, heavy pot, render the ham fat over low heat, stirring occasionally until the fat is liquid, and the remaining flesh is crisp and brown (these are the cracklins).
Remove cracklins and set aside for another use.
Sauté chunks of ham and sausage in the rendered ham fat.
Add diced onions, bell peppers, and green onions to the pot. Sauté until tender.
Add garlic, salt, pepper, thyme, and bay leaves to the pot.
Add red beans and stir to combine.
Add stock and ham bone.
Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer until beans are tender.
Serve over rice.

Mother’s Restaurant opened its doors in 1938 on Poydras Street’s “Restaurant Row”, situated between a thriving waterfront and the courthouse. Owners Simon and Mary (Mother) Landry and his large family cooked up po’ boys for lines of longshoremen and laborers, newspapermen and attorneys. During and after World War II, Mother’s became a local hang-out for “the few and the proud” – the U.S. Marine Corps. You’ll find plenty of locals rubbing elbows in line with visitors, veterans, politicians and movie stars. Mother’s remains true to its working class origins. Nobody gets treated better (or worse) than anybody else. As Jerry Amato says, “Everybody gets fed. Everybody comes back.”

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Pableaux’s Turkey Bone Gumbo

Heather Hampton — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 17:47:55 +0000

Ingredients:

Roasted Turkey Bone Broth

1 turkey carcass (bones, giblets and leftover skin from a roasted turkey)
3 ribs celery, cut into 4-inch pieces
2 medium onions, peeled and quartered
4 quarts water, or enough to cover carcass
2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon black peppercorns
4 bay leaves

Turkey Bone Gumbo

3/4 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup flour
2 cups chopped onions
1/2 cup chopped bell peppers
1/2 cup chopped celery
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 pound smoked sausage (such as andouille or kielbasa), chopped
3 quarts turkey broth
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
2 tablespoons chopped green onion
steamed white rice, for serving

Directions:

Make the Broth

Place turkey carcass in large stockpot. Add celery, onions, water, salt, peppercorns, and bay leaves.
Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium and simmer, uncovered, for 2 to 4 hours (the longer the better).
Remove from heat and skim any fat that has risen to the surface.
Strain through a large colander into another pot.
Reserve any meat that has fallen off the bones and pick off any meat that may still remain on the carcass.
Use immediately or freeze in quart-size containers.
Makes about 2 to 3 quarts (or enough for 1 gumbo).

Make the Gumbo

Combine oil and flour in a heavy-bottomed cast-iron pot or enameled cast-iron Dutch oven.
Cook over medium-low heat, stirring slowly and consistently for 20 to 25 minutes, to make a dark brown roux, the color of chocolate.
Season onions, bell peppers, and celery with salt and cayenne and add them to the roux.
Cook and stir vegetables and roux over medium heat until vegetables are soft, about 5 minutes.
Add sausage and cook, stirring often, for 5 to 7 minutes.
Add broth and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, uncovered, for 45 minutes.
Add reserved turkey meat and simmer for 30 minutes.
Add parsley and green onions.
To serve, ladle into soup bowls over steamed white rice.

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Dump and Go: Slow Cooker Red Beans & Rice

Aimee Bussells — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 18:01:48 +0000

Ingredients:

1 (1-pound) package Camellia Brand Red Kidney Beans
1 pound Andouille or smoked sausage, sliced or 1 large ham hock
2 cups pre-chopped trinity (onions, celery, bell pepper)
2 teaspoons garlic powder
6-7 cups water or chicken broth
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
Creole seasoning or hot sauce to taste
Hot cooked rice

Directions:

Rinse and sort beans.
Put beans, sausage or ham hock, trinity, garlic powder and water in the slow cooker. Stir well and cover.
Cook on low heat for 8 hours.
When beans are tender, use a spoon or potato masher to mash beans to desired creamy consistency. If using a ham hock, remove it with tongs, and discard skin, bones and cartilage. Chop or shred ham and stir back into beans.
Add salt, pepper, and Creole seasoning or hot sauce to taste.
Serve over hot cooked rice.

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Instant Pot Navy Beans

Amanda Ladner — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:36:17 +0000

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons olive oil
3 links smoked sausage, (cut into bite size pieces)
¼ onion, diced
½ green bell pepper, diced
1 (1-pound) package Camellia Navy Beans

1 handful parsley, roughly chopped
4 cups water
1 quart organic chicken stock
Slap Ya Mama seasoning, to taste
Smoked paprika, to taste
Garlic powder, to taste

Directions:

Press the SAUTE button on Instant Pot and add olive oil.
Once heated, add sausage and brown on both sides, stirring often, about 10 minutes/
Push browned sausage to one side and add onion and bell pepper. Stir and cook until glistening, about 5-8 minutes, then stir sausage, onions and bell peppers together.
Add beans, chicken stock and water and stir.
Place lid on and lock and seal.
Set PRESSURE COOKER option on high for 1 hour and 5 minutes.
When done, carefully unlock seal valve to remove pressure, then open lid and stir contents.
Add smoked paprika, Slap Ya Mama seasoning and garlic powder to taste.
Cook, uncovered, on BEANS/CHILI setting for an additional 15-20 minutes, stirring often to avoid sticking. (Temperatures may vary with different brands of pressure cooker.)
Serve over rice with a side of cornbread.

Angie Dumas is a Lifestyle & Food Blogger and Recipe Developer. Angie started out as a food writer doing restaurant reviews and now develops recipes for brands on her website. She loves creating new recipes, reviewing products, spending time with family, traveling and seeing the world!

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Stovetop Creole Red Beans

Julie Koppman — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:15:38 +0000

Ingredients:

1 package of Camellia Brand Red Bean Flavor Infusion
1 (1-pound) package of Camellia Brand Red Kidney Beans, rinsed and sorted
8-10 cups of water
Cooked rice

Directions:

In a heavy pot, add 1 pound Camellia Brand Red Kidney Beans, rinsed and sorted, plus 8-10 cups of water.
Bring beans to a boil for 10 minutes.
Stir in Red Bean Flavor Infusion.
Reduce heat, cover and simmer, stirring occasionally for 1 to 1 ½ hours or until beans are tender.

Optional:

Make it meaty. Add 1 lb. of pre-cooked sliced smoked sausage or chopped ham when adding the Red Bean Flavor Infusion.
Keep it veggie (or vegan). Add your favorite plant-based protein.
Go classic. Serve over cooked rice with cornbread or French bread.

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Dutch Split Pea Soup

Aimee Bussells — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:29:47 +0000

Ingredients:

9 cups water or chicken broth
1 (1-pound) package dried Camellia Brand Green Split Peas
2 pounds smoked ham hocks
6 leeks
4 celery stalks (with leaves), sliced
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 1/4 teaspoons crushed dried savory leaves
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/2 pound cooked, sliced smoked sausage (kielbasa or knockwurst)

Directions:

Rinse and sort peas.
Heat water and peas to boiling in Dutch oven; boil 2 minutes. Remove from heat; cover and let stand 1 hour.
Add remaining ingredients, except sausage, to peas. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer until pork is tender, about 2 hours. Skim fat if necessary.
Remove pork hocks; cool slightly. Trim fat and bone from pork. Cut pork into 1/2-inch pieces. Stir pork and sausage into soup. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer until sausage is hot, 15 minutes.
Remove sausage and slice, then put back in soup.

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Green Baby Lima Beans and Rice

Aimee Bussells — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:17:20 +0000

Ingredients:

1 (1-pound) package Camellia Brand Green Baby Lima Beans
1 1/2 cups chopped onion
1/4 cup minced celery stalk and leaves
1 cup chopped green bell pepper
2 bay leaves
8 cups cold water
4 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 pound ham, diced small (tasso, ham bone, ham hocks may be substituted)
1/2 pound smoked sausage or 1/2 pound andouille sausage, sliced 1/4-inch thick
Salt and pepper
Cooked white rice

Directions:

Rinse and sort beans. (Optional: Soak beans using your preferred method.)
Place the beans into a 5- to 6-quart Dutch oven. Add remaining ingredients, excluding the salt.
Bring to a boil, cover, then reduce heat and simmer for about 1 hour, stirring occasionally, monitoring water level and adding more as needed. After an hour, add salt to taste and continue to simmer, covered, until beans are very tender and creamy, approximately an additional 3/4 hour.
When nearly finished, press beans several times with the back of a large spoon against side of Dutch oven to encourage thickening of the sauce.
Serve over fluffy white rice. Freezes well.

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Camellia Brand’s Famous Red Beans and Rice

Aimee Bussells — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:45:12 +0000

Ingredients:

1 (1-pound) package Camellia’s Red Beans
1 pound smoked sausage, sliced
8-10 cups water
1/4 stick of butter
2 cups chopped seasoning blend (onions, celery, green bell peppers, parsley flakes)
1 toe garlic, chopped
1 bay leaf
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
Cajun seasoning to taste
Hot cooked rice

Directions:

Rinse and sort red kidney beans. (Optional: Soak beans using your preferred method.)
In large heavy pot, cook sliced sausage for 5 minutes.
Add chopped seasoning blend and garlic to cooked sausage, along with 1/4 stick butter, and continue to cook until onions turn soft and clear.
Add beans, water, and bay leaf.
Bring to rolling boil for 30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes.
Reduce heat, simmer for 1-2 hours, stirring occasionally, until beans are desired tenderness.
Add Cajun seasoning plus salt and pepper to taste.
Serve over hot cooked rice.

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