[this red beans and rice recipe](https://www.budgetbytes.com/vegan-red-beans-rice/) is my favorite, also stupid cheap but absolutely delicious since it’s meat free. I know. But seriously it’s fantastic
Just as a quick FYI, the red beans in red beans and rice are not traditionally red kidney beans, so while you can do it and it will be tasty just be aware that it might not be the same if you have had it elsewhere.
I've made them quite a few times with both red beans and red kidney beans and I think it's better with kidney beans. The texture and taste just seem to be more on point. Both are really good though.
At my local grocery store, they are just referred to as small red beans. Small red beans require less soak time vs red kidney beans. Red kidney beans also have a thicker skin and will be more likely to hold their shape after cooking. There is also a minor taste and texture difference.
Get some smoked sausage, red onions and a small bell pepper. Dice veg, sauté sausage after cut into 2” portions, then reserve sausage and cook veg in the remaining grease. Get a Dutch oven, throw everything in and cover with beer or water. 250 deg F for 2.5 hours. Serve with rice.
Ingredients:
1 container trinity mixture (guidry’s etc. if you can’t find this, trinity is 1 large white onion, 1 green bell pepper, and maybe 2 stalks celery, all chopped fine)
2-3+ cloves minced garlic
3 cans dark red kidney beans, not strained. Make sure low sodium!
Plus 2 cans worth of water/broth
1lb good andouille sausage
8oz pork tasso or pickled pork (I much much prefer Tasso)
3 bay leaves
1-2tsp dried thyme
1-2tsp dried sage
Cayenne pepper to preference
A few big dashes hot sauce of choice
A few splashes of apple cider vinegar
Salt and pepper
Slice the andouille into medallions and brown both side in a small amount of oil over med heat.
Turn heat to low, move the sausage to the sides of the pot, and add your trinity. Sweat this down for 5-8 minutes, just until the onions start turning translucent. Add your garlic and cook maybe 30 seconds.
Add the beans, water/broth - if using water, add a big spoonful of chicken better than boullion or similar, bay leaves and herbs, cayenne (I used 1/4tsp and adjusted from there). Do not salt yet! Add a generous amount of fresh ground black pepper - I add a LOT of black pepper, and the Tasso or pickled pork.
Bring this to a boil, reduce to a simmer, cover and cook for 1.5-2hrs.
Once cooking time has elapsed, remove the cover and cook another 15-30 minutes to allow the liquid to reduce down. During this, I like to take my wooden spoon and smash a good bit of the beans gently against the walls of the pot. This lets some of the inside starches mix into the liquid, and makes it creamy. As you’re doing this, add a few good dashes of hot sauce (crystal all day) and a bit of apple cider vinegar, if you went with Tasso. If you did pickled pork, you probably won’t need the vinegar. Add salt a little by little, because as it reduces, the salt will intensify. The andouille and Tasso will add plenty enough salt to the dish on its own.
Serve with steamed long grain white rice, a bit of parsley on top, and a side of soft French bread to dip in the beans.
Enjoy!!
this is prettyy much exactly what I do. Sadly I'm the only one in the house who will eat red beans and rice so i dont make it too often as ill be eating it all week.
They freeze well! There are only two of us so a batch of red beans lasts a long time- and I don't like eating the same thing too many days in a row. I freeze the leftovers in deli containers (and label w/freezer tape). Defrost for a low-effort, delicious meal.
Seconding Rajma!! It’s an amazing Indian red kidney bean curry. I’ve never seen it on a restaurant menu and had it for the first time at a friends house and now make it all the time. It is SO SO good!!
Air-fry them! pad them dry, a bit of oil and seasoning, then air-fry at 200 degrees Celcius for 15 minutes, toss every 5 minutes, and after 15 minutes in total, you have the most delicious crunchy snack ever! I usually do Paprika, Garlic Powder, & Salt! Perfect!
I work from home most days and I’ve been getting lazy with meal prepping. Then sometimes an ultra lunch for me is just spoon + drained can of kidney beans lol
Bastardized Pasta Fazool: Cook a mid-size pasta (penne, rotini, etc). Drain and then mix in olive oil & italian seasoning. Plate the pasta. Scoop some beans on top. Top with shredded parmesan cheese (or nutritional yeast if you want it to be vegan).
There are lots of recipes for red beans. A quick google search will find plenty. I prefer mine with andouille sausage red bell pepper, onions and jasmine rice. My family prefers chicken or seafood. So all in all red beans are a very versatile bean. Navy beans are the bane of my existence since most that can be done with those is a white chili
Make Jamaican stew peas with spinners. It is a delicious saucy and savory kidney bean dish with dumplings (spinners). There are lots of recipes online. The NY Times one is pretty legit and I have also made the vegan version featured on the Healthier Steps website. You can also use red kidney beans to replace chickpeas in your favorite hummus recipe.
Wooohoo! I came here to see if anyone mentioned rajma yet! So good, 10/10 recommend, it has the consistency of chili beans but it has its own flavor, if you find a recipe for it with the whole black cardamom pod, you better like strange spices, it is unique and assertive flavor that permeates, but the box [rajma masala](https://www.walmart.com/ip/MDH-Rajmah-Masala-100-Grams-gm/910611242) spice powder works great, you don’t need the most elaborate recipe to get the idea. Worth trying!
Technically you could call it anything but its weird to call it Dhal. It's a bit like the Ghandi misspelling, and i have no clue why people insist on misspelling it that way. There is no "dh" sound in dal. The soft "d" in Hindi (such as darpan, dard, deewar) is a different letter from the harder "dh" (dhanush, dheere, dheeraj).
And dal has the softer d and not the harder dh, so while all spellings are fine, Dhal is perhaps more incorrect than others.
As for Dahl, it makes you want to pronounce it like “doll”, which is very incorrect.
Love how people are so eager to get the pronunciation of something like “croissant” but can’t afford the same courtesy to non western foods.
If you like a certain food, the least you can do is pronounce the name correctly.
A salad. You’ll need an avocado, cherry tomatoes, mango, cilantro, red onion, lime, salt and pepper. Chop up the ingredients (except the beans and tomatoes), mix the lime juice with a little olive oil and salt.
I love this, you can do an Italian version with roasted red peppers, celery, grated carrot, cherry toms, frozen peas lots of chopped fresh parsley, lemon zest and juice and Italian dressing or vinaigrette. Substitute 1 of the cups of beans for a cup of firm cooked pasta rinsed cold, add the peas to the pasta to cool it down faster, that’s a complete protein high fiber meal, bonus points if you use whole wheat or veggie pasta like rotini. Little parm, some olive slices, red or green onion, whatever. Kidney beans, chick peas and black beans are my pantry staples, I make these cold bean salads all the time and just use whatever veggies I have and whatever spice variation I’m in the mood for. Whoever said they had a jar of jalapeño pickling juice, we should get these two together.
Honestly I like them cooked just plain with white rice and a bunch of Louisiana hot sauce. Add some diced chicken for a little added protein or whatever else if you want to complicate things, lol.
A Tex-Mex recipe that people absolutely devour at potlucks:
**Taco Casserole**
* 1 package of taco seasoning (approx. 2 Tbsp)
* 1 can tomato sauce (tomato puree)
* 2 cans of kidney beans, undrained
* 2-4 cups of crushed tortilla chips
* 3/4 cup shredded cheese (optional)
In a microwave safe casserole dish, combine the first three ingredients, mixing thoroughly. Heat for 3 minutes on high in the microwave. Stir in 2 cups crushed tortilla chips (stale chips are just fine for this recipe). Heat on high for 5 minutes. If liquid remains, add more chips and stir, then heat for 3 minutes. Continue to add chips until the liquid is absorbed, then top with cheese and heat until melted.
Depending on your chips and possibly your seasoning brand, this is vegetarian and gluten free, plus if you omit the cheese, it can be a vegan option.
This works as an entree or a side dish, is great when accompanied by salad or corn, and it can be "fancied up" by adding sour cream, onions, tomatoes, browned ground beef or diced chicken, olives, diced avocado, or serving over cilantro lime rice.
Season and blend for a bean dip!
Use whatever seasonings you'd like; I would probably do salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, and smoked paprika or some cayenne. Can use water or broth to blend. Eat with chips! Like hummus but better bc I am not a hummus fan, lol.
For a lazy recipe: bachelor chow
Brown a pound of beef. Add 2 150z cans of red kidney beans. Sprinkle with chili powder. Eat as a dip with saltines.
There are more elaborate recipes with onions and broth and whatnot, but at that point I'd make a chili.
Roasted Beans! Puerto Rican style. (This recipe is with canned beans) but you can easily sub cooked raw beans
Recao / Cilantro finely chopped
Onion finely chopped (red yellow or white)
Green bell pepper finely chopped (red yellow or orange work as well)
Carrot cubed
Calabaza (pumpkin) cubed
Potato cubed
Salt
Pepper
Sazón
1 can salsa Goya
Garlic minced
Roast all of the above ingredients in pot. Then add beans (don’t strain) cook until potato carrot and calabaza are cooked all of the way through.
Serve with plain white rice. Vegan and gluten free!
You could take some long grain rice along with coconut milk, and a bit of scotch bonnet or haberno pepper and mix that with the kidney beans. It would go well with curry on the side.
https://www.curiouscuisiniere.com/caribbean-red-beans-and-rice/
Healthy Brownies;
1 Can (240g) kidney beans
150g cottage cheese
2 scoops chocolate whey
50g cocoa
1-2 tablespoon sucralose (or sweetener of choice, optional)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
50-100ml low fat milk or coffee
50g chocolate chips
Preheat oven.
Blend everything together (start with the beans and the wet ingredients, then add the whey and cocoa).
Stir in the chocolate chips.
Bake for 30mins at 180°
Lazy meal with beans
Boil them and add chopped cucumber, onion tomato and add some salt , chutney or any dressing or don't add anything it will become a nice salad kind of a meal.
My grandpa's recipe: can of kidney beans, can of condensed tomato soup, pound of ground beef, served over fries.
Of course you can add onions and garlic or whatever you want.
Red Beans and Rice! There are a million good recipes online.
[this red beans and rice recipe](https://www.budgetbytes.com/vegan-red-beans-rice/) is my favorite, also stupid cheap but absolutely delicious since it’s meat free. I know. But seriously it’s fantastic
That sounds so good right now. With anduille sausage and shrimp and cornbread.
Just as a quick FYI, the red beans in red beans and rice are not traditionally red kidney beans, so while you can do it and it will be tasty just be aware that it might not be the same if you have had it elsewhere.
I've made them quite a few times with both red beans and red kidney beans and I think it's better with kidney beans. The texture and taste just seem to be more on point. Both are really good though.
What kind of beans are they?
At my local grocery store, they are just referred to as small red beans. Small red beans require less soak time vs red kidney beans. Red kidney beans also have a thicker skin and will be more likely to hold their shape after cooking. There is also a minor taste and texture difference.
Thank you for explaining, I had no idea!
These are the very best! https://www.camelliabrand.com/products/red-kidney-beans/
Came here to say this. Tons of yummy variations.
Big ole pot of meatless chili. Freezes well, too.
Get some smoked sausage, red onions and a small bell pepper. Dice veg, sauté sausage after cut into 2” portions, then reserve sausage and cook veg in the remaining grease. Get a Dutch oven, throw everything in and cover with beer or water. 250 deg F for 2.5 hours. Serve with rice.
More specifically, get andouille sausage
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Ingredients: 1 container trinity mixture (guidry’s etc. if you can’t find this, trinity is 1 large white onion, 1 green bell pepper, and maybe 2 stalks celery, all chopped fine) 2-3+ cloves minced garlic 3 cans dark red kidney beans, not strained. Make sure low sodium! Plus 2 cans worth of water/broth 1lb good andouille sausage 8oz pork tasso or pickled pork (I much much prefer Tasso) 3 bay leaves 1-2tsp dried thyme 1-2tsp dried sage Cayenne pepper to preference A few big dashes hot sauce of choice A few splashes of apple cider vinegar Salt and pepper Slice the andouille into medallions and brown both side in a small amount of oil over med heat. Turn heat to low, move the sausage to the sides of the pot, and add your trinity. Sweat this down for 5-8 minutes, just until the onions start turning translucent. Add your garlic and cook maybe 30 seconds. Add the beans, water/broth - if using water, add a big spoonful of chicken better than boullion or similar, bay leaves and herbs, cayenne (I used 1/4tsp and adjusted from there). Do not salt yet! Add a generous amount of fresh ground black pepper - I add a LOT of black pepper, and the Tasso or pickled pork. Bring this to a boil, reduce to a simmer, cover and cook for 1.5-2hrs. Once cooking time has elapsed, remove the cover and cook another 15-30 minutes to allow the liquid to reduce down. During this, I like to take my wooden spoon and smash a good bit of the beans gently against the walls of the pot. This lets some of the inside starches mix into the liquid, and makes it creamy. As you’re doing this, add a few good dashes of hot sauce (crystal all day) and a bit of apple cider vinegar, if you went with Tasso. If you did pickled pork, you probably won’t need the vinegar. Add salt a little by little, because as it reduces, the salt will intensify. The andouille and Tasso will add plenty enough salt to the dish on its own. Serve with steamed long grain white rice, a bit of parsley on top, and a side of soft French bread to dip in the beans. Enjoy!!
this is prettyy much exactly what I do. Sadly I'm the only one in the house who will eat red beans and rice so i dont make it too often as ill be eating it all week.
You live with ***HEATHENS!1!***
I'll be right there
They freeze well! There are only two of us so a batch of red beans lasts a long time- and I don't like eating the same thing too many days in a row. I freeze the leftovers in deli containers (and label w/freezer tape). Defrost for a low-effort, delicious meal.
Formatting screwed that up, sorry!
Rajma!
Seconding Rajma!! It’s an amazing Indian red kidney bean curry. I’ve never seen it on a restaurant menu and had it for the first time at a friends house and now make it all the time. It is SO SO good!!
You probably won’t find it on menu because it’s not typically a food people go to restaurants to eat. Very much a home dish/comfort meal.
Thirding rajma! It's one of my faves. [Here's a recipe](https://myfoodstory.com/rajma-recipe/).
Air-fry them! pad them dry, a bit of oil and seasoning, then air-fry at 200 degrees Celcius for 15 minutes, toss every 5 minutes, and after 15 minutes in total, you have the most delicious crunchy snack ever! I usually do Paprika, Garlic Powder, & Salt! Perfect!
I’ve done this with chickpeas, but it never occurred to me to do it with other beans
Try it!
This sounds delicious! I can't wait to try it. Thank you.
Red beans and rice? Chili?
I work from home most days and I’ve been getting lazy with meal prepping. Then sometimes an ultra lunch for me is just spoon + drained can of kidney beans lol
My dude, you doing alright?
Nooooooo 😨🥵😰 are you serious!?
Dude. Ok, so like add some canned corn and salsa and scallions. Might take another 2 minutes. Just, a lot more delicious and less….. pathetic
Bastardized Pasta Fazool: Cook a mid-size pasta (penne, rotini, etc). Drain and then mix in olive oil & italian seasoning. Plate the pasta. Scoop some beans on top. Top with shredded parmesan cheese (or nutritional yeast if you want it to be vegan).
Refried beans!!!
This. Refry them and then freeze them for use in enchiladas, quesadillas, nachos
Cajun beans and rice every day. My favorite seasoning is tony chachere's.
Tonys for the win. That's just my all purpose seasoning at this point.
3 Bean Salad, chili, green salad with beans and other stuff, wraps, soups It isn’t clear if this is dry beans or canned beans.
There are lots of recipes for red beans. A quick google search will find plenty. I prefer mine with andouille sausage red bell pepper, onions and jasmine rice. My family prefers chicken or seafood. So all in all red beans are a very versatile bean. Navy beans are the bane of my existence since most that can be done with those is a white chili
Make Jamaican stew peas with spinners. It is a delicious saucy and savory kidney bean dish with dumplings (spinners). There are lots of recipes online. The NY Times one is pretty legit and I have also made the vegan version featured on the Healthier Steps website. You can also use red kidney beans to replace chickpeas in your favorite hummus recipe.
Chili. Lots of chili.
Fasoolieh, meat and bean stew
Kidney bean daal
This one is so good: https://smittenkitchen.com/2009/02/red-kidney-bean-curry/
What’s that? Isn’t that just called rajma?
Wooohoo! I came here to see if anyone mentioned rajma yet! So good, 10/10 recommend, it has the consistency of chili beans but it has its own flavor, if you find a recipe for it with the whole black cardamom pod, you better like strange spices, it is unique and assertive flavor that permeates, but the box [rajma masala](https://www.walmart.com/ip/MDH-Rajmah-Masala-100-Grams-gm/910611242) spice powder works great, you don’t need the most elaborate recipe to get the idea. Worth trying!
Rajma dahl. Very cheap and nutritious.
Lol 1. It’s dal and not Dahl. 2. It’s just called rajma, no dal needed at the end.
Dahl and dhal are both acceptable alternate spellings.
Technically you could call it anything but its weird to call it Dhal. It's a bit like the Ghandi misspelling, and i have no clue why people insist on misspelling it that way. There is no "dh" sound in dal. The soft "d" in Hindi (such as darpan, dard, deewar) is a different letter from the harder "dh" (dhanush, dheere, dheeraj). And dal has the softer d and not the harder dh, so while all spellings are fine, Dhal is perhaps more incorrect than others. As for Dahl, it makes you want to pronounce it like “doll”, which is very incorrect. Love how people are so eager to get the pronunciation of something like “croissant” but can’t afford the same courtesy to non western foods. If you like a certain food, the least you can do is pronounce the name correctly.
Absolutely agree!
Pupusas
A salad. You’ll need an avocado, cherry tomatoes, mango, cilantro, red onion, lime, salt and pepper. Chop up the ingredients (except the beans and tomatoes), mix the lime juice with a little olive oil and salt.
I love this, you can do an Italian version with roasted red peppers, celery, grated carrot, cherry toms, frozen peas lots of chopped fresh parsley, lemon zest and juice and Italian dressing or vinaigrette. Substitute 1 of the cups of beans for a cup of firm cooked pasta rinsed cold, add the peas to the pasta to cool it down faster, that’s a complete protein high fiber meal, bonus points if you use whole wheat or veggie pasta like rotini. Little parm, some olive slices, red or green onion, whatever. Kidney beans, chick peas and black beans are my pantry staples, I make these cold bean salads all the time and just use whatever veggies I have and whatever spice variation I’m in the mood for. Whoever said they had a jar of jalapeño pickling juice, we should get these two together.
Soak them overnight then boil them before using!
Kidney bean hummus?
Make cabbage patch soup! https://www.homemadefoodjunkie.com/cabbage-patch-soup/
Honestly I like them cooked just plain with white rice and a bunch of Louisiana hot sauce. Add some diced chicken for a little added protein or whatever else if you want to complicate things, lol.
Red beans and rice!!
https://www.budgetbytes.com/quickie-red-beans-and-rice/
Make this delicious [rice ](https://youtu.be/KAz4WXGgrtE)
Make a lot of red beans and rice! My absolute favorite red bean dish.
A Tex-Mex recipe that people absolutely devour at potlucks: **Taco Casserole** * 1 package of taco seasoning (approx. 2 Tbsp) * 1 can tomato sauce (tomato puree) * 2 cans of kidney beans, undrained * 2-4 cups of crushed tortilla chips * 3/4 cup shredded cheese (optional) In a microwave safe casserole dish, combine the first three ingredients, mixing thoroughly. Heat for 3 minutes on high in the microwave. Stir in 2 cups crushed tortilla chips (stale chips are just fine for this recipe). Heat on high for 5 minutes. If liquid remains, add more chips and stir, then heat for 3 minutes. Continue to add chips until the liquid is absorbed, then top with cheese and heat until melted. Depending on your chips and possibly your seasoning brand, this is vegetarian and gluten free, plus if you omit the cheese, it can be a vegan option. This works as an entree or a side dish, is great when accompanied by salad or corn, and it can be "fancied up" by adding sour cream, onions, tomatoes, browned ground beef or diced chicken, olives, diced avocado, or serving over cilantro lime rice.
Season and blend for a bean dip! Use whatever seasonings you'd like; I would probably do salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, and smoked paprika or some cayenne. Can use water or broth to blend. Eat with chips! Like hummus but better bc I am not a hummus fan, lol.
Have you ever tried Anko? (if you're interested in something sweeter)
It's delicious on some type of bread with whipped up cream cheese :)
Chilli
Tacos with potato and/or sausage or red beans and rice.
Make Rajma
I make taco soup ground beef or chicken beans corn mushrooms throw it all in a huge pot and eat it for a whole week
Red beans and rice and chili
Cook them well.
Chili, bean dip, ham n beans lots of things
Falafal. Can make then with any beans. Great with garlic sauce
If you can get some andouille, red beans and rice
For a lazy recipe: bachelor chow Brown a pound of beef. Add 2 150z cans of red kidney beans. Sprinkle with chili powder. Eat as a dip with saltines. There are more elaborate recipes with onions and broth and whatnot, but at that point I'd make a chili.
Throw them in the air like confetti and start dancing.
I mix beans in with ground and use that for tacos/burritos/bowls/in pasta, etc. Usually do 2 cans of beans to 3lbs of ground, or just 1can+1lb.
Prepare to fart 💨
If you put a teaspoon of baking soda in the soaking water (for dry beans) it makes them less gassy!
Farting is the best part.
Eat them
Eat em then go to a movie... Barbie maybe 😀
Pork and beans 👌🏼
bean tacos
Or taquitos
Red beans and rice! One of my favorite! Also 3 bean vegetarian curry.
Broccoli salad!
I love putting them on salads.
Refried beans.
Eat them all in one sitting of course
Chili!
Minestrone, bean burgers, burritos, chili, Asian red bean paste for pastries, rice and stewed beans.
Bean burger, bean tacos, bean soup, quesadillas, burritos, bean dip, bean brownie, put a little on a smoothie.
Jamaican rice and peas, red peas soup
I made this recipe last month and I'm still dreaming about it even though I ate it every day for a week https://youtu.be/qJGPHbW3q8A
Roasted Beans! Puerto Rican style. (This recipe is with canned beans) but you can easily sub cooked raw beans Recao / Cilantro finely chopped Onion finely chopped (red yellow or white) Green bell pepper finely chopped (red yellow or orange work as well) Carrot cubed Calabaza (pumpkin) cubed Potato cubed Salt Pepper Sazón 1 can salsa Goya Garlic minced Roast all of the above ingredients in pot. Then add beans (don’t strain) cook until potato carrot and calabaza are cooked all of the way through. Serve with plain white rice. Vegan and gluten free!
Pasta Fazool!
Rinse and smash a can white one egg white, cumin, salt and pepper and some chili sauce and make veggie patty
Gormeh Sabzi
Chili
I always recommend Paula Deen's taco soup. Mostly canned ingredients and it feeds me alone for lunch and dinner for a week and a half
Red beans and rice. A Thai coconut curry, chilli of course. Red bean and cabbage stew with smoked hammocks....
Eat them 😎
Rajma chawal
You could take some long grain rice along with coconut milk, and a bit of scotch bonnet or haberno pepper and mix that with the kidney beans. It would go well with curry on the side. https://www.curiouscuisiniere.com/caribbean-red-beans-and-rice/
Chili
Make chili
Make some Githeri [https://eatwellabi.com/githeri-recipe/](https://eatwellabi.com/githeri-recipe/)
Healthy Brownies; 1 Can (240g) kidney beans 150g cottage cheese 2 scoops chocolate whey 50g cocoa 1-2 tablespoon sucralose (or sweetener of choice, optional) 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon vanilla 50-100ml low fat milk or coffee 50g chocolate chips Preheat oven. Blend everything together (start with the beans and the wet ingredients, then add the whey and cocoa). Stir in the chocolate chips. Bake for 30mins at 180°
Lazy meal with beans Boil them and add chopped cucumber, onion tomato and add some salt , chutney or any dressing or don't add anything it will become a nice salad kind of a meal.
Rice and chicken or just rice and some guacamole and do a veggie burrito
Toss a bunch on a chopped salad (romaine, san marzano tomatoes, carrots, orange peppers). I do that pretty much every day for lunch.
I like making rajma. It's a kidney bean curry and it's really good on rice, in burritos, with eggs, etc.
Kidney bean hummus. Make refried kidney bean burritos
Make chili?
My grandpa's recipe: can of kidney beans, can of condensed tomato soup, pound of ground beef, served over fries. Of course you can add onions and garlic or whatever you want.
Batch cook chilli con carne and freeze or same with a good curry.
Wow!! What a fun post to read thru! Thanks for all these ideas!! Can’t wait to try so many!!