Makes 4 cups
4 ounces smoked chicken or turkey andouille sausage*
cooking spray
1 can (15-ounce) red beans, rinsed and drained
1 teaspoon good quality olive oil
3 tablespoons finely chopped onion
2 tablespoons finely chopped celery
3 tablespoons finely chopped green bell pepper
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
1 cup (Rice Cooker) long grain rice
••• teaspoon thyme
1 bay leaf
1••• cups (standard liquid measure) chicken stock
3 tablespoons chopped Italian parsley
Tabasco® or other hot sauce
Divide the sausage in half. Finely chop half the sausage; cut the remaining sausage into •••-inch pieces. Lightly coat the interior of the steaming tray with cooking spray. Place the red beans and sliced sausage into the steaming tray; reserve.
Insert the cooking bowl into the Cuisinart® Rice Cooker/Steamer. Place the olive oil in the bowl, cover, and turn on for 1 minute. Add the onion, celery, bell pepper, and garlic; stir to coat with oil. Cover and cook 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in the rice and thyme. Stir until rice is opaque, 3 to 4 minutes. Tuck in the bay leaf and add the chicken stock. Place the filled steaming tray on the bowl; cover. Turn the Rice Cooker on and cook until it switches to Warm, about 18 minutes. Let stand at Warm for 5 minutes. Transfer beans and sausage to a medium bowl; add cooked rice mixture to the same bowl. Remove and discard bay leaf. Gently toss rice mixture with beans and sausage. Add parsley and toss to combine. Transfer to a warmed bowl to serve. Serve with hot sauce if desired.
*Smoked chicken or turkey andouille sausage has much less fat than traditional pork andouille. It can be found in many well-stocked grocery stores. Smoked turkey kielbasa can be substituted.
I think I'd make Pirate Stew in this to try it out…a chicken & rice dish my husband renamed to get the kids to eat it.
I would love to win this. It sounds awesome!
kimberly_aaron@hotmail.com
I would try my chicken and rice recipe first. Then follow with the one you posted. It look yummy!
rice….I'm too chicken to try it on the stove!
I am going to try this recipe. I would probably make some dirty rice with beans and chopped sausages.
I would use it to make Jasmine Rice!!! We LOVE Jasmine rice, but it is tricky to get the proper sticky texture without a rice maker. This would be PERFECT!
I have never even heard of an appliance like this-it sounds awesome! And since it is like a slow cooker, I know that I would be obsessed with cooking in it! I would definitely make my fantastically yummy Chicken Chili! I made the recipe up and even my kids love it!
I would fix your red beans and rice and my spanish rice recipe which is probably very similar. MM my mouth is watering already!
I'm in Louisiana and I'm creole!! So, I'd use it to make my fav dish in the whole wide world GUMBO!!!!
(laissez la bon temps roule)
Those red beans and rice are the first thing I would try. I am sure that we would use it quite often since, it would make my life so much easier to get a healthy, home-cooked meal on the table for my family.
sjcouey
Wow – this is so cool! My rice cooker is cheap and old and the rice is either hard or mushy. So, I'd use this baby to make perfectly cooked rice. Thanks!
Wow that sounds amazing!!! I would probably try one of the recipes it came with because I do not have very many rice recipes (we have rice a roni over here!)
I would make that exact recipe. My husband would love me forever!
YES! I would love this rice cooker. I think I'd make spanish rice first.
Jasmine Rice
I'm pretty sure I would make your red beans and rice…that looks really good!
Soup in a rice cooker? Yeah, I'd have to try that. Which soup is THE question.
I have always wanted a rice cooker!! I would try sticky rice…I can never seem to get it right!!! Thanks for the giveaway!! Happy Holidays!
Wow! I'd probably try my Asian rice…then my Mexican rice…unless I fixed my version of Cajun rice first…so many to try!
Your recipe you posted looks pretty yummy…I would have to try that first!
I would definitely fix the red beans and rice first, looks yummy.
Amy
acrawford4224@yahoo.com
I think I would have to try the red beans and rice. My son has been on a red bean kick lately and this would be a good way for him to have them instead of right out of the can.
monicaalbers@yahoo.com
I would love to try the recipe you posted. It looks and sounds so good!! Thanks for the chance!
That recipe looks pretty tasty, so I'd probably start with it! A goal for 2010 is to add more bean/ rice dishes to my menue rotation… this would definitely prompt me to be dilligent about that
Jackie
benjacbahun@aol.com
I'd try making Jambalaya in it. Thanks!
Ooh, thanks for the giveaway. I'd make confetti rice which is just brown rice with different bright colored veggies. Yum. Thanks again! mcphee_desilets@yahoo.com
Brown rice to go with my pad thai.
Your's looks so yummy I'd try that recipe first in the Cuisinart! (vctoria1@yahoo.com)
I LOVE red beans and rice! I'd love to try gumbo as well!
I would LOVE to win this! Why I always seem to be commenter #179 is beyond me…
Anyway, I would certainly try your rice and beans recipe.
Thanks for the chance!
I would make sushi rice. It is so yummy and I can never duplicate it at home!
I would fix some sort of oriental rice with beef and soy sauce and honey and garlic.
I think I'm in love!! I moved from Houston to another state recently and was born in New Orleans so you have me missing Cajun food in a majorly way!!! I would definitely make some jambalaya the first time, red beans and rice the second time, rice for gumbo the third time… well, you get the idea!
I would make lovely, non-schmooshy rice. That would be a nice change!
My family LOVES rice! We eat it all of the time–at least three times a week. My favorite has got to be ham fried rice. But I ADORE wild rice, too…
I'd make italian chicken and rice. One bottle of Italian Dressing, some boneless skinless chicken breasts, and some cheese as well as brown rice. It is tasty. Everyone in the family loves it…and it's great with a salad on the side!
Ooo! I would FOR SURE make cilantro rice… like the kind you get from cafe' rio! I have the BEST recipe!
mmmm… is it lunch time yet?
Shelley
casonshelley@gmail.com
Hm…the possibilities! I would use it to make creamy chicken and rice! Comfort food!
Good ole white rice! I love it!
I'm so happy y'all found good food and hopefully some in my home state! I would love, LOVE, love a new rice cooker. Mine is small and it was actually my husband's before we got married; I think it was his sister's before that (and maybe his mom's before that?).
We cook a lot of rice, so maybe dirty rice with some sausage. YUM!
Oh I need a new rice cooker so bad. My husband is cajun, born and raised in Breaux Bridge. I am a Houstonian, born and raised. When we met I had never eaten jambalaya much less cooked it. Now 5 years later all I cook is cajun food. I cook jambalaya with sausage in my rice cooker as well as rice for gumbo. My poor little rice cooker is on it's last leg though.
I am DYING for one of these… but its not in the budget for awhile.. I think I would make just about everything in it – oatmeal, rice, beef stew – you name it!
I bet it would make some yummy paiella!
I would love one of these.. my mom has had one for 40 years!! I would fix jambalaya, red beans/rice, maybe sausage/rice casserole? I'm sure the possibilities are endless.. My family is from La. and a rice-cooker is a kitchen necessity. I would love to have this addition to my kitchen!
I would definitely and happily make RIISENGRUT, from my Norwegian roots. It's white rice and milk, slowly cooked till it's creamy and tender, then served with a chunk of real butter and lots of cinammon and sugar (or nutra seet) sprinkled all over the top, generously! And for us, at Christmas, my mother always hid an almond within the rice in one bowl and the winner got the jar of pennies she had saved all year long. I can taste it right now!
How about dinner every night?
Well, other thn that, maybe chili? But I have always wanted a rice cooker, so maybe your red beans and rice?
Well – my first thought is to copy you and make red beans and rice…but I also want to be original. So I think I'd try a roasted chicken followed by making homemade chicken stock. Fingers crossed!
Mmm! I'd make some (boring) brown rice! At least at first
Well I think being a Louisianian myself I think I would have to make some good ol' cajun chicken & sausage jambalaya.
I think I would fix just regular rice, as I haven't had great luck with rice in the past
OK, just let me say first off, that those red beans and rice look soooo yummy! :0) So I would definitely cook them, but I think I would make sticky rice in it first just to test it out.
Wow! I have hear AWESOME things about his appliance! I'd cook white rice, brown rice, jambalaya, gumbo, soup, chicken, noodles…
YUM!!
Jumbalaya for sure!
Okay, I should probably think of something unique, but that rice you made looks delicious. I am suddenly very hungry!
I love soup and think it would be great to make!
I'd make our little birthday girl's favorite…orange chicken & rice. Yummy, I can already smell it!
Blessings,
Denise
dcornett2@cfl.rr.com
I'd make a Japanese dish that my mom used to fix for me when I was a kid — chicken, mushrooms and rice. Mmmmmm…
Oooh, I'd get really creative and make brown rice.
I like the "real" rice that is good for you, but it can be messy cooking it over the stove. This would be a great gift to me!!
I would make some plain brown rice first, to make sure I could actually do that. Then I'd get a little ambitious and make some jambalaya. Yum
caseytucker35@yahoo.com
Oh my, rice making heaven! I want one and the first thing I would make in it is jambalaya, which is a lot like your red beans and rice but no beans and a few more meats (shrimp, sausage, chicken, and spices galore!)After that would be wild rice pilaf, you know, the kind with white rice and the black wild rice grains? Mmmm! All my kids love that.
Rice! First anyway,,, then I would try some new recipes(o:
When I was a little girl I always told people that my two favorite foods were "plain" rice and Mexican rice, so I would probably start there. And from your description, the list must be endless. Hmmmm, how many new recipes can I try out on my husband?
Thank you for doing this.
Becky R
I would fix chicken and rice, a traditional latin dish in this. Husband would be a very smitten man.
Lots of white rice and then some experiments!!!
Glory be! That little dude needs to come to my house!
We're southern bumpkins and we eat rice all week long..with everything!
I would cook up some sausage, beans and rice in mine!
Rice for my fried rice and maybe this thing will cook it right (unlike my ability to cook it wrong)
Wow – that recipe looks great! I'm not good at cooking any kind of rice (except pilaf), so I'd cook brown rice or jasmine rice!
Yes please! I've been dying for one of those, ever since I started trying to learn to cook Indian curries.
this looks fun; I think I would make Mexican Rice 'cause it's my kiddos fav.
Don't you just love a multipurpose appliance. I really miss my rice cooker. I'm cooking rice on the stove now and it keeps boiling over. So, yes, please enter me.
UnfinishedMom @ blogspot . com
I would make steamed white rice because every. single. time. I try to make it in a saucepan with water, I scorch it! DH doesn't like instant rice so this would be a nice addition to our kitchen.
I have never owned a rice cooker but it sounds amazing! I would start with a basic white rice but then try any number of recipes. I didn't know a rice cooker could be so versatile.
I would definitely make some red beans and rice! YUMM!
We love to make fajitas and rice, so definitely some type of mexican rice – but I'm trying to experiment more and eat out less because it's getting very expensive with 7 eaters!
Katie Lewis
fredandkatie@bellsouth.net
Awesome! We have tacos every Friday night so I'm betting Mexican Rice would be the first thing I made in it! YUM!
Spanish rice! I love rice!
Spanish rice or my husband's pork fried rice!
It's pretty boring but I would cook brown rice. I love the stuff.
Basmati Rice, I love it!
Thanks for the opportunity to win
WOW…I'm adding this baby to my wish list (just in case I am not the lucky winner, ha). The first dish would be plain white rice because I can never get it right on the stove!!!
I love all things rice!
Because I burn my rice every single time I make it, I will make rice. Plain ol' rice that doesn't have a small crust on it along with a funny smell. Once i have this under control, I will move onto something fancier!
Brown rice with capers! YUM!
I would try the red beans and rice too. My family likes andouille sausage.
OH MY GOSH! I could use one of these…imagine coming home to chicken and rice….or spicy spanish rice…my mouth is watering!
Liz M in Wisconsin
PS Merry Christmas. GREAT giveaways!!
I'm not really sure what I'd make first…I've wanted one of these for soo long. I love, love, love rice. I'd like to make Spanish rice, but I'd be the only one to eat it so I"d probably make fried brown ice first, so everyone could try it out.
Jambalaya!
rebeccakatzer at gmail dot com
I'm liking the Fuzzy Logic brain that's in this machine. Because after 20 years of homemaking, I'm ready for some new logic.
A friend IRL recently posted about her Cuisinart Rice Cooker Plus, and I was sold then…but then we went on a no-spend November and now I'm boycotting Christmas gifts (well, the expensive ones) so I can't really ask for this, can I?
But I'd make soup and of course the beans and rice…On piano lesson day, when I can set the timer and let it work its magic while I'm on a 80-mile commute.
ack! i've always wanted a rice cooker!! the very first thing i would cook up is some perfectly sticky sushi rice. mmmm…
kyrie24 at gmail dot com
Rice pudding. Yum! I don't have a rice cooker, so I've never made this recipe but it looks like one that I would try IF I had a rice cooker.
http://www.recipezaar.com/Rice-Pudding-in-a-Rice-Cooker-254086
I am all over that! I was born in Monroe and learned to cook from my Cajun grandmother… so I'm thinking this needs to be mine! What a fun give away!
That recipe sounds like something my husband would love!!! I think I would have to make it for him
Great contest!!!
Looks delish!
Pick me.
Rice Pudding!
2 cups rice (cooled)
2 eggs
1/2 cup Sugar
1 dash Nutmeg
2 1/4 cups milk
1 tsp vanila
Cooking Instructions
Separate egg yolk and whites
beat egg yolk, add milk, sugar, vanilla, and rice
beat egg whites until stiff and add last
Butter pyrex baking dish and add mixture
Bake in oven at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes
sprinkle with nutmeg out of oven
This recipe has been added to the following public cookbooks:
Jim’s, good for all, Roxann’s Greatest meals, Mickie’s AOL Cookbook, DESSERT RECIPIES
I would make lots of rice! My rice cooker is old and not the greatest.
My mouth is watering thinking about those red beans and rice…haven't had it in ages! Would love a rice cooker to make it.
My mouth is watering thinking about those red beans and rice…haven't had it in ages! Would love a rice cooker to make it.
My mouth is watering thinking about those red beans and rice…haven't had it in ages! Would love a rice cooker to make it.
I went to college in La, so red beans and rice is calling my name. I've always wanted a rice cooker!
Red Beans and Rice, Chicken and Rice, Spanish Rice, Hoppin John, Rice Pilaf, Beef Mushroom Rice. Rice. Rice. Rice. I could eat it everyday if I could. Good thing it is so inexpensive and I have grown accustomed to the brown version as well.
Something with brown rice – my rice cooker seems to not be working with brown rice.
So either lentil and brown rice taco filling or mexican brown rice.
Either way it would be delicious.
My husband would love to have this great rice cooker plus!! He's always talking about wanting one. I'd love to try to make couscous in it or spanish rice. Thanks!
That red beans and rice looks mighty fine (since I make that often anyway) but I think I'd try lentils and brown rice.
I would make spanish rice and just regular ol white rice..We eat it all the time but i never cook it right!
Love your blog!
Rebecca
Rebecca.s.elwell@comcast.net
I'd make rice, soup, veggies… you name it!!
I would love one of those. I am always making something in my crock-pot or my rice cooker but to have it all in one…wow! I would probably make a chicken and rice soup as my first adventure.
last new year's I had the privilege of trying turnip greens that had been cooked in a rice cooker…oh my lands…yummy & tender! So, that'd be a first on my list.
mel g
last new year's I had the privilege of trying turnip greens that had been cooked in a rice cooker…oh my lands…yummy & tender! So, that'd be a first on my list.
mel g
Wow! You could fix anything in it! Sloppy joes
Oooo crock pot pizza! 
Yum!
To be honest, I would just make plain old boring white or brown rice. I have trouble making rice, so this thing would come in handy!
I just made sausage, beans, and rice tonight for supper- in a plain old pan! What a coincidence. Everyone loved it, and they want me to make it again- so if I win the rice cooker- I can make it in style!!
We'd make all our rice for burritos. HUGE burrito eaters in our house….many times a week. Love, love, love rice! Yum!
I would definitely try to replicate my mother's (and grandmother's) Swedish Rice Pudding! Warm, creamy, with nutmeg and cinnamon…can't be beat on a cold day!
Please, please pick me! We need this in our house. Red beans and rice, black bean and rice soup….
Wow! That looks so fancy! (The rice cooker and the red beans & rice). I would probably have to Google some rice recipes, but I usually make rice for my chicken stir-fry.
I would make red beans and rice for my dad
Spanish Rice.
I would totally make cajun jambalaya……
I just love Cajun food and my favorite is spicy sausage,red beans and rice. So hands down that would be the first thing I would cook in the cooker.
tamben7996(at)aol(dot)com
A cusinart rice cooker? Are you kidding? This would be amazing to win! I tried Popeye's chicken when we went on our first cruise from New Orleans 7 years ago. I saw one and made ny hubby pull over. Their spice combo's were amazing. Wish there was one close!!!!
A cusinart rice cooker? Are you kidding? This would be amazing to win! I tried Popeye's chicken when we went on our first cruise from New Orleans 7 years ago. I saw one and made ny hubby pull over. Their spice combo's were amazing. Wish there was one close!!!!
A cusinart rice cooker? Are you kidding? This would be amazing to win! I tried Popeye's chicken when we went on our first cruise from New Orleans 7 years ago. I saw one and made ny hubby pull over. Their spice combo's were amazing. Wish there was one close!!!!
oops sorry about the repeat posts!!
So you finally discovered what we have known all along… Louisiana has some good food. Thats the only bad thing about vacations… the food is NEVER as good as it is at home….
I would like the Cuisinart and in exchange I will tell you my secret to real Louisiana Red Beans and Rice. Buy Tony's Red Beans and rice seasoning mix, put it in dried red beans in a big pot on stove, add sausage and let it cook for 4 hours or so on low to med heat. Pour it over rice.
Considering I live in & am from SE La (Northshore) & my husband is Japenese we eat a TON of rice. I buy it in 20lbs sacks at Sams. (No joke..just freeze it) So I would make jambalaya, white rice for gumbo, & fried rice. And those are just our top 3. BTW…thank you Jesus that there are 2 yes 2 Popeyes in my town….but Copelands is a good choice also.
Well, I'd probably take baby steps, and start with basic rice. Your recipe looks great, I'd work my way up to that. Thanks for the giveawy, hope to win
I have a recipe that takes a box of Zatarains black beans and rice, water, a can of Rotel Tomatoes, cup of frozen corn, can of green chilies and a lb of ground beef/turkey (sprinkled with cilantro when done)…I think this would be a cinch in the rice cooker PLUS.
Then…om to Basmatti rice for some Indian Food!
Definitely what you made! YUMMO
June
Kennlaff@comcast.net
I think some mexican chicken and rice would be amazing right now!
Liesl
I would probably make my favorite – white rice. Then some spanish rice for hubby. then brown rice. then i'd have to try cajun rice.
I'd have lots of fun!!
I'd probably make some chili in it! Though that Cajun rice and beans recipe looks great!
Sticky rice – plain ole' sushi rice with a wickedly yummy peanut sauce – my family loves it.
I have no idea what I would make because I can't cook! But one of my best friends is teaching me and I can totally see this helping me! Thanks for your blog! It's inspiring!
Oooh, I've wanted a rice cooker since we were in Japan. They love their rice there. We love rice especially Japanese rice. Trying to get them to eat healthier with brown rice, so that is definitely what I would attempt to fix more of.
Thank you for the great giveaway!
Oh, my goodness! What an amazing piece of machinery! I LOVE IT!!! Maybe it would get us away from the Uncle Ben's microwave in a bag — done in 5 minutes Rice! Hee Hee! I love the fact that you can brown meat in it! I would need to branch out and try some new recipes — b/c being from the Midwest….ummm….we really like Meat & Potatoes! So, cookbook, here I come! Watch out!
Love some cajun food and especially red beans and rice – a complete protein for health!
I would cook up some sausage beans and rice or beef stew. I really really would love this cooker – hint hint.
I use my rice cooker all the time but it's small. FUN!
I would make some white rice like my sister-in-law makes when I visit her in NH. I mix it with butter and pepper and it is delightful. She says it is all in the rice cooker which by the way is the same one that you have!!!
I would make black beans and wild rice for dinner.
I thinki I'd have to try the recipe you posted! We love beans and rice around here!
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I think I'd make some Asian style rice. My oldest loves rice, so this would be well used here!
mexican rice for sure!
I would probably try your Red beans and Rice. Then see if I could figure out a rice pudding. Yum
The first thing I would cook in it is Red Beans and Rice because that is my hubby's fave dish.
Wow – It's awesome that meat can go in there too! I have a small little rice cooker and all I can do it cook rice in it LOL
I have actually had a serious craving for a spicy rice/sausage dish of some kind so I'd prolly borrow your recipe and make that
although I'm sure the boys would like it if I made them their favorite "white rice and peas"
Yum, definitely the red beans and rice…they're the best!
DeLane
bc0105@aol.com
Black beans and rice = DELISH!!
Mmmmm…Coconut Jasmine Rice, for sure. Looks awesome.
I would have to go with good old chicken and rice. My kids love it and it is an easy standby!