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re: Any good White Beans recipes?

Posted on 9/20/24 at 5:40 pm to
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
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Posted on 9/20/24 at 5:40 pm to
I like to use white beans to make a pot of bean and bacon soup in cold weather
Posted by cdhorn28
Member since Sep 2016
774 posts
Posted on 9/21/24 at 6:41 am to
Yeah I would say so, like the other poster said, they can turn into a big mush, and some people like it like that, but does not go well over rice. If you’re in a position to monitor it every few hours, or if you have work, putting on low and letting them ride will take about 10-12 hours to over cook. I usually put them on high around 10-11 and they will be good around 4-5. So low for 8-10 should be good.
Posted by Stadium Rat
Metairie
Member since Jul 2004
10075 posts
Posted on 9/21/24 at 7:24 am to
From the Times Picayune and the Food and Drink Board Recipe Collection:

Jazz Fest Meaty White Beans

"At the very end of the Food Heritage area, closest to the Jazz Tent, is the booth that sells one of my favorite dishes at the New Orleans Jazz Fest: The meaty white beans. I've already raved about them in print, but this year I met the owners, who dish out the beans and the barbecue ribs, barbecue turkey wings, cole slaw and peach cobbler every year.

Bertrand and Renee Bailey met at Louisiana State University, and this is the 14th year they have been vendors at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell. They are able to tell exactly, because their daughter Blaire, now their cashier at the booth, was born the year they got in.

"I've been in food service 30 years," Bertrand said. "I started cooking as a way to put myself through college. I always had a passion for cooking."

They have a catering company in Baton Rouge, Down Home Creole Cookin', and Renee also is a teacher and librarian at Winbourne Elementary in Baton Rouge. She grew up in the capital city, and Bertrand is from Edgard in St. John Parish, where his daddy was a farmer. Both learned to cook from their mothers.

When there was an opening for a barbecue ribs vendor at Jazz Fest, they applied, and brought the meaty white beans as a side.

"They wanted pork and beans, but this is like pork and beans," Bertrand said. Only not as sweet and much meatier.

The beans are flavored with pork sausage, ham hocks, tasso, andouille and diced ham."

1 lb Great Northern beans, Camellia brand
3 quarts water
1 onion, chopped
1 bell pepper, chopped
3 ribs celery, chopped
1/2 bunch flat-leaf parsley, chopped
2 smoked ham hocks*
2 links smoked sausage, sliced
1/2 link andouille, sliced
1/2 lb tasso, cubed
1/4 lb ham, diced
Salt, cayenne, onion powder and other seasoning to taste
Rice for serving

Bring beans and water to a boil in a large pot Boil on high heat for one hour

Add all meats and lower heat to medium. Cook 1-1/2 hours. Add vegetables and cook 30 minutes. Season to taste with salt, cayenne, onion powder and other seasonings of choice.

Serve over rice.

Tips
Bertrand Bailey said his pork sausage is Manda brand, and he gets his andouille, tasso and smoked ham hocks in LaPlace at Bailey's -- no relation.



Posted by GeauxTigers0107
We Coming
Member since Oct 2009
10644 posts
Posted on 9/21/24 at 7:37 am to
Sounds like a good recipe but would you even taste the beans with all that smoked meat in it?
Posted by TCO
Member since Jul 2022
3261 posts
Posted on 9/21/24 at 12:13 pm to
quote:

Smoked  Sausage 


That’s a no for me dawg. Ham all the way
Posted by CHEDBALLZ
South Central LA
Member since Dec 2009
23060 posts
Posted on 9/21/24 at 12:36 pm to
For every 2 pounds of dry beans
1 white onion diced fine
1 lb pickled pork
1/2 cup crisco
Salt
White pepper

Soak your beans overnight. Put them to boil, when they foam up dump them in a colander and rinse then add them back to the pot and return them to a boil. Add Crisco, white onion, salt and white pepper and cook for about an hour, till your beans start to get tender. Then add pickled pork and cook till beans are creamy. About 3 hours total. Stir often and don't let them stick. They will come out white and creamy.

Posted by CHEDBALLZ
South Central LA
Member since Dec 2009
23060 posts
Posted on 9/21/24 at 12:39 pm to
quote:

20-30 guys


Do 4 lbs of dry beans.
Posted by Jibbajabba
Louisiana
Member since May 2011
3920 posts
Posted on 9/21/24 at 5:57 pm to
This thread has a lot of folks saying great northerns for their white beans. Am I the only coonass that uses navy beans?

Also, I almost word for word use the same recipe for my white beans that I do for my red beans. I cook down bacon, smother veggies, then simmer beans in seasoned chicken broth with Tasso or sausage.
Posted by CHEDBALLZ
South Central LA
Member since Dec 2009
23060 posts
Posted on 9/21/24 at 6:19 pm to
I use navy beans.
Posted by Daddywoods
Member since Nov 2017
67 posts
Posted on 9/21/24 at 11:01 pm to
Blue Runner
Posted by John McClane
Member since Apr 2010
37166 posts
Posted on 9/22/24 at 12:15 am to
In addition to chicken stock, I’m a big fan of pickled pork in white beans
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