Blue Runner Red Beans Review with video

by Silly Reviewer, Ryan. on July 7, 2007

Making Authentic New Orleans Style Red Beans And Rice Can Take Forever, Seriously. There’s a reason why a bowl of real New Orleans red beans taste so darn good: chance are, whoever made those delicious red beans spent a lot of time and preparation making them. The quick solution for a delicious pot of red beans is to use a can or two or three of Blue Runner Red Beans. A lot of people here in New Orleans buy cans of this stuff, and for good reason, these beans taste great.

Have you ever tried to make red beans and rice from scratch? If you have, you’ll probably appreciate a quick substitution to the painstaking, long process preparing red beans the New Orleans way. In a nutshell, preparing red beans the N.O.L.A. way goes something like this:

Soak the kidney beans overnight.

Yup, red beans are kidney beans. And yes, the first, exciting step when making red beans and rice is to soak the beans for like half a day. Fun, right?

After the beans have soaked, they need to be boiled for about 45 minutes to an hour.

It’s believed that if you rinse the beans off that have been soaking and use fresh water for the boiling process, the fart factor for the people eating the beans will be significantly reduced.

After the beans have been boiling long enough to get soft but not falling apart, you’re going to start adding all your seasonings and whatnot. Then, you’ll be reducing the temperature and letting everything sort of come together.

This “coming together” process takes hours. If you were craving red beans when you started preparing them, you’ve probably decided to eat something else.

And remember, this is just to get the red beans right. This is before all the seasonings and meat additions like adding perfectly seasoned sausage to really make your red beans and rice stand out.

Here are several good red beans and rice recipe. Here’s a good red beans recipe.

Now, here’s my own super quick red beans and rice recipe using Red Runner Red Beans.

Open a big can of Blue Runner Red Beans and heat them up in a pot.

I like to just shake the can into the pot. Whatever doesn’t fall out after a few seconds gets eaten with a spoon, cold, right out of the can. This helps to hold me over while I’m waiting for everything to be ready.

Boil up some minute rice in a separate pot.

This should take all of a few mintes. Even if you use regular rice, you’re only looking at about 20 minutes to get the rice ready.

Butter some untoasted white bread.

Nothing goes better with some read beans than some buttered white bread. Wanna really do it New Orleans style? How about using Bunny bread?

Round up some seasonings and start dumping them into your beans.

I like to get silly with my red beans. I enjoy adding the following (not all at the same time though): jalapeño peppers, black pepper, jalapeño pepper juice, Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning, salt, onion powder, louisiana hot sauce, crystal hot sauce.

Watch the video below to see the initial preparation of a can of Blue Runner Red Beans.