James' Manly Smoked Red Beans and Sausage

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 8
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 314.2
  • Total Fat: 16.6 g
  • Cholesterol: 39.9 mg
  • Sodium: 1,118.7 mg
  • Total Carbs: 25.2 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 9.1 g
  • Protein: 16.0 g

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Introduction

Throw it all in a slow cooker and come back to hammy and beany goodness. Best if you slather it over rice ( Who doesn't love to slather!) Its also got some kick, like a punch to the mouth. Or you can tailor the pepper and hot sauce ratio to your taste. I certainly kick my up several degrees away from insane. You don't have to of course. Throw it all in a slow cooker and come back to hammy and beany goodness. Best if you slather it over rice ( Who doesn't love to slather!) Its also got some kick, like a punch to the mouth. Or you can tailor the pepper and hot sauce ratio to your taste. I certainly kick my up several degrees away from insane. You don't have to of course.
Number of Servings: 8

Ingredients

    1 pound dried red beans, soaked
    overnight ( Or you could use a couple cans of beans instead, like 3)
    10 cups water
    1 pound smoked sausage, sliced into
    rounds
    1 large onion, chopped
    1 green bell pepper, chopped
    1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped
    (optional, if your a coward)
    8 cloves garlic, chopped
    1 teaspoon ground black pepper
    1 teaspoon Creole seasoning, or to taste
    6 fresh basil leaves, chopped ( Or you can use about a half TBSP dried)
    1 ham hock or 4 or so Bacon slices ( or ends, I like to use pepper smoked ends from the local meat store)


Tips

Add some good hot sauce. You can tailor this to your taste with some additions of your favorite hot sauce. Mine is my own concoction of ghost chilies, habaneros, mangoes, whiskey and a few other manly ingredients. It's so good its probably outlawed in some states because people are afraid of the "Flavor".


Directions

If you are cooking from dry beans, make sure to soak overnight, or quick soak per directions. Or just used canned cause your lazy, just like me. Chop up all the veggies indicated int he ingredient list as well as anything else requiring a good chopping. Once your have solved your dry vs canned bean debacle Huck all the ingredients into the slow cooker, and I mean Huck, with Gusto! Lets the ingredients know your a badass. And lets all admit it people, stuff taste better when your a badass. Cook on high 2 hours, then downgrade to low quicker than a company downgrades its workforce during "Tough Times".

Cook some rice to slather on, or don't, its still a badass dish without the carb load down. MMMHHH Badass beans and smoked sausage.

Serving Size: 8 slathering bowl fulls

Number of Servings: 8

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user JLANNAN84.