Popeye's Red Beans And Rice Ii

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 1/4 cup lamb fat
• 2 (15 ounce) cans red beans or 2 (15 ounce) cans kidney beans
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 teaspoon brown sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 dash garlic powder
• 1 dash onion powder
• 1 dash hot pepper sauce
• 2 1/4 cups water
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup rice

Recipe

• 1 melt lamb fat. combine 1/4 cup lamb fat with one 15-ounce can red beans plus liquid in a medium saucepan. add 1/2 cup water, brown sugar, 1/8 teaspoon salt, garlic powder, and onion powder. bring mixture to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes. use a potato masher to smash beans into a paste-like consistency. add entire contents of remaining can of beans to the mixture and cook for an additional 10 minutes.
• 2 prepare rice for 4 servings. for uncle ben's converted rice you bring 2 1/4 cups water to a boil. add 1/4 cup butter and 1/4 teaspoon salt. add 1 cup of rice, reduce heat to low and simmer rice for 20 minutes or until tender.
• 3 to prepare each serving scoop 1 cup of beans into a bowl. add 1 cup of rice on top of the beans and serve.
• 4 ****if you can't find lamb lard -- buy 2 pounds of smoked ham hocks and render the fat from the smoked ham hocks. preheat oven to 375 degrees and place the ham hocks in a deep pan. cover pan with foil and bake for 4 to 5 hours or until 1/4 cup of fat has rendered from the hocks.