Let's Talk BBQ
Other Cooking Equipment => Other cooking Eqipment => Other cookers => Topic started by: LostArrow on May 19, 2016, 06:46:43 PM
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Red beans and rice is a staple of southern Louisiana cuisine. It originally was the dish for Monday washday. Beans garlic onions bell pepper celery and a couple of bay leaves along with the leftover ham bone from Sunday dinner we're putting a big pot and allow to simmer all day. It was often served with sausage and was served over rice allowing a healthy filling cheap meal. These people were poor, they still are poor and inexpensive feeling meals were needed.
Red beans and rice take a long time to cook. Beans are usually soak overnight and then slowly simmered for number of hours before the dishes ready. Pre-cooked canned beans just don't taste the same.
For the first cook in my electric pressure cooker I made red beans and rice starting from scratch in just under an hour. Put water in the pressure cooker and turned on sautéed to heat the water while I cut up the veggies. After cutting up the onions celery and red bell pepper I put them along with rinsed 1 pound of red beans in the pot. A couple of Bay leaves and five or six cloves of minced garlic were put in the pot also. 2 tablespoons of canola oil were put to prevent foaming by the beans and some initial salt-and-pepper.
The pressure cooker part was put on came to tip within 10 minutes possibly due to the pre heating and allowed to cook for the suggested 35 minutes. 1 pound of smoked pork sausage was Put in then put in the pressure cooker for an additional five minutes. Heat was turned down to simmer and the needed Cajun spice black pepper salt and some Louisiana hot sauce was used to season the Beans. Serve over rice it was really pretty good , next time I might cook the beans about five minutes longer during inital cook
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I wish that bowl was mine :P :P
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The meal looks great and I assume you like the electric pressure cooker.
How about a review?
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That kind of meal may make me look more seriously at a pressure cooker.
Art
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Looking real good LA .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
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The meal looks great and I assume you like the electric pressure cooker.
How about a review?
I'm going to cook a few more things in it first.
It touts itself as a decent slow cooker & a rice cooker so I've got those planned.
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LA, that looks delicious.
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The meal looks great and I assume you like the electric pressure cooker.
How about a review?
It touts itself as a decent slow cooker & a rice cooker so I've got those planned.
We eat a lot of rice and the rice cooker is on it's last leg so this could be the new rice cooker PLUS.
Based on your assessment of course. :)
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If I could afford one of them fancy pressure cookers I'd be too rich to be eating beans. Jes' sayin'.
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;D ;D ;D ;D
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Looks good! I'll take a bowl. :)
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Wow, you cut hours off the traditional method.
Looks very tasty.
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Bowl me! Nice job ... 8) 8)
I use my electric pressure cooker all the time (I have an Instant Pot) and really love it. The first thing I had to get used to is not hearing the pressure jiggle the top. I still soak my beans using the quick soak method but either way a pressure cooker is great for beans.
They're so versatile - pressure cooker, crock pot, rice cooker, saute/browning, yogurt maker, steamer, and warmer.
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Outstanding post, LA!
I'm with Toommy; I wish that bowl was mine!
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Looks great!
Been giving pressure cookers the hairy eyeball...
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Looks great!
Been giving pressure cookers the hairy eyeball...
I've cooked corn on the cob.
In the next week planning on white rice, brown rice & searing & cooking a pot roast.
After these cooks will post a review.