Southern
Red Rice
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Cook the bacon in a large pot over medium heat until crisp, then add the smoked sausage and brown, about 5 minutes; remove both and set aside, leaving the fat in the pot.
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Add the onion and bell pepper and cook until softened, about 5 minutes.
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Stir in the tomato paste and cook 1 minute, then add the rice and toast for a minute, stirring to coat.
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Add the diced tomatoes, chicken broth, bay leaf, cayenne, salt, and pepper, and return the sausage and bacon to the pot.
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Bring to a simmer, cover, and cook over low heat until the rice is tender and the liquid is absorbed, about 25 minutes.
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Remove the bay leaf, fluff with a fork, and serve.
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Serve it with
A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Red Rice, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Red Rice carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 650 kcal
- Protein
- 22 g
- Carbs
- 86 g
- Fat
- 24 g
- Fiber
- 4 g
- Sugar
- 8 g
- Sodium
- 980 mg
- Saturated fat
- 9 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Red Rice takes about 50 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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