Slow Cooker Rice and Beans

Submitted by: Rick

Attributed to: Rick

Category: Pork

Description: The best food with the least effort :)  Kinda like a West African "soup", but Cajun and without the okra.

Prep time: 20 minutes

Total time: 10 hours on high -12 on low

Servings: 6

Difficulty rating: 3

Ingredients:

1 Pound beans (we use dried speckled butter beans, but you also use small red beans)

1 Onion, diced

4 Celery stalks, chopped

7 Ounce smoked boneless pork chops, diced into small cubes

12 Ounce andouille sausage, cut in half and sliced to same size as pork chops

1 Teaspoon salt

1/2 Teaspoon cayenne or chili pepper

1/2 Teaspoon dried thyme

2 Bay leaves

6 Garlic cloves, minced or crushed

White rice, prepared per package directions

Special tools/utensils needed:

 slow cooker

Directions: 

1. Just put everything in the slow cooker. No need to sauté anything, soak or presoak. Like farm-to-table, think of this as crock pot-to-table. Add enough water to cover all the ingredients + 1" ... about 7-8 cups. That's it!

2. Cook as above, 10 hours on high, 12 on low. 

3. Sometime before the crock pot is finished, don't forget to make the rice ... probably 4 cups if you're planning to serve 6.

4. When beans are mushy, remove the bay leaves & serve over 2/3 cup rice.