Dirty Rice Recipe

Look n the recipie book.... BugAC has a family recipie and someone posted Donald Link’s Lake Charles Rice Dressing. Both look great

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Finally, Once I make dirty rice and I want to add eggplant is it the same recipe plus eggplant or is this a all different recipe?

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Eggplant dirty rice Had that first tme year ago around a campfire in Opelousas. I just add it in after cooking both down.

I found this one and want to make. It sounds and looks like a decent recipe...Like my Mom use to make.


Dirty Rice Recipe

Isaac Toups's recipe is very good. He uses ground pork and ground brisket. I like to follow his but add liver/hearts to the meat ratio and then diced up hogs head cheese at the end. The hogs head essentially melts into the rice. It is good stuff.

Pro tip I learned from this board - make your rice the night before and refrigerate so it cools completely and keeps its form instead of becoming mush.

I really like the Richard's mix. You can buy it anywhere and it's simple.

I add:
1/2 of a small onion diced fine
1/4 of a bell pepper diced fine
1/2 of a stalk of celery diced fine
Chopped Parsley
Green onions
1lb of ground beef (or loose green onion sausage, or cajun sausage, etc)
1tbs bacon grease
~1 cup uncooked rice

Cook rice and set aside. Sauté the trinity down in the bacon grease. Add ground meat (or whatever flavor of loose sausage you chose). If it's ground meat, I dust it a little Louisiana Cajun Seasoning a few shakes of Worchestershire. If it's either one of the sausages I don't add anything. Brown it down with the veggies. Pour any extra grease off.

Pour container of Richard's in and cook it down until it melts in good. Fire should be on low at this point. Add finely chopped green onions and parsley. Stir in well. Add cooked rice and stir in. Check the ratio of rice/meat. If it needs more rice, add it in. Your choice.

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