Red beans and rice

Red beans and rice
	Red beans and rice with sausage
Place of origin	United States
Region or state	Louisiana
Main ingredients	Red beans; rice; onions; celery; bell pepper; pork bones; spices;
	Cookbook: Cajun Red Beans and Rice; Media: Red beans and rice;

Red beans and rice is an emblematic dish of Louisiana Creole cuisine (not originally of Cajun cuisine) traditionally made on Mondays with small red beans, vegetables (bell pepper, onion, and celery), spices (thyme, cayenne pepper, and bay leaf), and pork bones as left over from Sunday dinner, cooked together slowly in a pot and served over rice.^[1] Meats such as ham, sausage (most commonly andouille), and tasso ham are also frequently used in the dish. The dish is customary – ham was traditionally a Sunday meal and Monday was washday. A pot of beans could sit on the stove and simmer while the women were busy scrubbing clothes. The dish is now fairly common throughout the Southeast. Similar dishes are common in Caribbean and Latin American cuisine, including moros y cristianos, gallo pinto and feijoada.

When the Haitian Revolution ended and the First Empire of Haiti was established in 1804, thousands of refugees from the revolution, both whites and free people of color (affranchis or gens de couleur libres), fled to New Orleans, often bringing African slaves with them, doubling the city's population. They also introduced such Haitian specialties as the red beans and rice and Chayote (or called mirliton; a pear-shaped vegetable) to the Louisiana Creole cuisine.

Red beans and rice is one of the few New Orleans-style dishes to be commonly served both in people's homes and in restaurants. Many neighborhood restaurants and even schools continue to serve it as a Monday lunch or dinner special, usually with a side order of cornbread and either smoked sausage or a pork chop. While Monday washdays are largely a thing of the past, red beans remain a staple for large gatherings such as Super Bowl and Mardi Gras parties. Indeed, red beans and rice is very much part of the New Orleans identity. New Orleanian Louis Armstrong's favorite food was red beans and rice – the musician would sign letters "Red Beans and Ricely Yours, Louis Armstrong".^[2] In 1965, the R&B instrumental group Booker T. & the M.G.'s wrote and recorded a song titled "Red Beans and Rice" that was originally a B-side but later became popular in its own right.

The similar vegetarian dish rajma chawal^[3] (which translates literally to red beans and rice) is popular in North India. Red beans and rice is also a dietary staple in Central America, where it is known as arroz con habichuelas. The dish is popular in Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Haitian, Trinidadian and Tobagonian, Guyanese, and Jamaican cuisine as well.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ Edge, John T., ed. (2014). "Red Beans and Rice". The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 7: Foodways. UNC Press Books. pp. 243–4. ISBN 978-1-4696-1652-0.
^ Biro, Liz (February 27, 2007). "From New Orleans to India, red beans and rice has been a weekly tradition for years". Star-News.
^ "Rajma Chawal". Famous India. Archived from the original on 2010-05-05. Retrieved 2020-06-10.

External links

Beans and Rice Archived 2016-03-31 at the Wayback Machine – Southern U.S. Cuisine
New Orleans Red Beans and Rice – The Gumbo Pages
How To Make Red Beans and Rice Video – Cookbook Man

[1] Edge, John T., ed. (2014). "Red Beans and Rice". The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 7: Foodways. UNC Press Books. pp. 243–4. ISBN 978-1-4696-1652-0.

[2] Biro, Liz (February 27, 2007). "From New Orleans to India, red beans and rice has been a weekly tradition for years". Star-News.

[3] "Rajma Chawal". Famous India. Archived from the original on 2010-05-05. Retrieved 2020-06-10.

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