When I was snowed in and unable to travel to the grocery store, I taught myself how to prepare rice with red bean sauce. tasty and simple to prepare.
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 35 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 (15 ounce) can kidney beans
- 1 ½ cups tomato sauce
- 4 ½ cups water, divided
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ½ teaspoon dried basil
- 1 pinch dried thyme
- salt and pepper to taste
- 5 teaspoons adobo seasoning, divided
- 2 cups uncooked white rice
Instructions
- Combine olive oil, kidney beans, tomato sauce, 1/2 cup water, oregano, basil, thyme, salt, pepper, and 2 teaspoons adobo in a large saucepan. Simmer over low heat.
- Meanwhile, bring 4 cups water to a boil. Stir in rice. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer until rice is cooked and all liquid is absorbed, about 20 minutes. Stir remaining 3 teaspoons adobo into rice.
- Serve bean sauce over rice.
Reviews
I always add a large can (28oz) of Italian style petite diced tomatoes to my red beans (1lb Camellia brand). It makes them so much better.
Inedible-way too much adobo
Quick and easy. The only thing we did different was we omitted the adobo seasoning.
Made this, didn’t like it. Will make it again to make sure I didn’t mess it he recipe up.
Thank you I love this so easy and healthy
Interesting improvision on a Cajun dish. However, with the addition of adobo seasoning in place of Cajun seasoning and the absence of andouille, onion, green bell pepper and celery, this dish can hardly be called “American style”. Very interesting flavors, but this is not authentic.
Made these a few weeks ago, and my family liked them a lot. Making them again tonight. I read the reviews before preparing the first time – My favorite thing about this site! I modified it by adding a second can of beans. Worked out perfect. Also, several people mentioned the saltiness and too much adobo. I have a salt free adobo seasoning I use from Penzey’s. They have many other salt free spices to choose from as well. I would recommend checking out their website.
We loved this! It was an easy weeknight dinner. I cooked some sliced smoked sausage and added it in for some added protein.
Very easy and my family liked. My wife was concerned it was going to be hot but it wasn’t. Leftovers were even better.
Good! I served this with tacos. I only used garlic and cumin for spices and used much less liquid for a thicker sauce. It was quick and easy and my family enjoyed it. I’ll save this for another time.
I’m super broke right now. Fortunatly I have exactly every thing it takes to make this meal. Thank you.
delish and so healthy and easy and fast to make but i usually add a second can of kidney beans to make it heartier. One isn’t enough. It is too much sauce compared to beans. I also reduce the amount of rice, so that I don’t have so much rice leftover. Sometimes i use the tomato sauce as noted, sometimes i use ready made Rinaldi or other healthy pasta sauce in the glass jars.
Yum! This was Delicious! I did make a few changes 🙂 First off I made my rice separate all i had on hand was yellow rice but worked out perfect! Secondly I diced up an onion and a 1/2 of Bell pepper and a pound of stew meat added those ingredients with the sauce and bean mixture and let it all simmer together for about 45min! Soooooo good!
A nice alternative to louisiana style beans and rice
This tasted like beans that were too salty and the tomato sauce was a strange mix with the kidney and adobo seasoning. It looks very pretty–just like the picture! But I don’t recommend it. Too acidic, too salty.
This was really good and very easy. I used tomato paste instead of tomato sauce. I also used less than half the amount of adobo. Everything else was exact. I will definitely make it again.
Great Recipe. Easy and fast. It was a little too salty for my tastes so next time I will cut back on the Adobo. But all in all very tasty. Big hit with my father and kids.
This was an easy and fairly tasty recipe. Personally I really didn’t think it was that wonderful but my husband thought it was awesome! The sauce was very runny so I added cut up cubes of butter to thicken it up. Give this recipe a try.
This felt like a cross between spaghetti and chili. Pretty good – nothing to knock my socks off but a decent little meal, and something good for when I want a meatless day. I have no Adobo seasoning and made my own. I found a variety of recipes so I just made up an easy combination similar to them, except using less salt. (Even so, salty stuff, but way less than most recipes had.) I made up a batch using 1 T. salt, 1 T. onion powder, 1 T. garlic powder, 1 T. pepper, 1/2 T. oregano and 1 t. chili powder. I’ve made this twice now, and have made it as is, except for the reduced salt, and also I think 1-2/3 cup rice is plenty. (Side note that for something like this or salad, the beans really should be drained & rinsed, which also reduces the sodium.)(It also does say “American-style” meaning it can be anything it likes. Also not the first time Mexican & Italian has been mixed – even the Adobo has oregano!)
Wonderful recipe..I’ve tried Zatterans from the store but it is too salty..This is perfect. my husband likes it and asks for it frequently..and my kids even like it. Great job LAURENB222!!
really good, but really salty. I used about half the adobo.