Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, red beans with ham. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Red beans and rice have long been a Southern tradition. Though the dish is associated with Louisiana, similar dishes of beans and rice and pilaus These slow cooker red beans are flavored with a variety of vegetables and a ham bone or ham hocks. Add some leftover diced ham or crumbled bacon to the. An Old Family Favorite: This was one of my dad's favorite bean dishes which he especially liked with cornbread.

Red beans with ham is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Red beans with ham is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have red beans with ham using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Red beans with ham:

1. Get 1 leftover ham on bone with about 1 pound of meat left on it
2. Make ready 1 handful of garlic cloves (about 5-7)
3. Get 1 medium white onion cut in sixths
4. Make ready 1/2 tbsp course ground black pepper
5. Take 1 juice from cooking ham
6. Prepare 1 lb beans (I used light red kidney beans)
7. Make ready 1 1/2 tbsp Zatarain's Creole seasoning
8. Take 1 enough water to cover ham halfway
9. Make ready 2 cup water (may need to add more)
10. Make ready 1/2 can rotel

Made as written except for the ham hock and sausage. I had a very meaty smoked ham bone in the freezer so I threw that in the bean pot. Traditional Louisiana red beans and rice also uses Andouille sausage which we did not add, but you could if you wanted. There was plenty of flavor, and plenty If you have access to ham hocks and not shanks, you may want to make up the difference in meat (hocks have much less meat) with sausage.

Steps to make Red beans with ham:

1. In a crock pot put pepper garlic onion then put Ham on top
2. Add the juice from cooking the Ham and enough water to come halfway up the ham cook on low over night
3. In the morning add the beans (make sure to look through them) Zatarain's Creole seasoning ½ can rotel and 2 cups water
4. Cook on low all day. When you get home or at some point during the day check the liquid level. Add more if necessary.
5. Eat over rice with some corn bread.

Traditional Louisiana red beans and rice also uses Andouille sausage which we did not add, but you could if you wanted. There was plenty of flavor, and plenty If you have access to ham hocks and not shanks, you may want to make up the difference in meat (hocks have much less meat) with sausage. This recipe is a great way to use leftover ham. You could also make it with smoked sausage if you like. I had grilled ham slices the day before and needed to use up the Add the chicken broth, tomatoes, hot sauce and beans.

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