Slow Cooker

James' Manly Smoked Red Beans and Sausage is for Dinner.

James' Manly Smoked Red Beans and Sausage takes 25 minutes to prepare.

James' Manly Smoked Red Beans and Sausage takes 480 minutes to cook.

James' Manly Smoked Red Beans and Sausage makes 8 servings.

The ingredients for James' Manly Smoked Red Beans and Sausage are:

1 pound dried red beans, soaked
overnight ( Or you could use a couple cans of beans instead, like 3)
10 cups water
1 pound smoked sausage, sliced into
rounds
1 large onion, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped
1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped
(optional, if your a coward)
8 cloves garlic, chopped
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon Creole seasoning, or to taste
6 fresh basil leaves, chopped ( Or you can use about a half TBSP dried)
1 ham hock or 4 or so Bacon slices ( or ends, I like to use pepper smoked ends from the local meat store)

Here is how you make James' Manly Smoked Red Beans and Sausage:

If you are cooking from dry beans, make sure to soak overnight, or quick soak per directions. Or just used canned cause your lazy, just like me. Chop up all the veggies indicated int he ingredient list as well as anything else requiring a good chopping. Once your have solved your dry vs canned bean debacle Huck all the ingredients into the slow cooker, and I mean Huck, with Gusto! Lets the ingredients know your a badass. And lets all admit it people, stuff taste better when your a badass. Cook on high 2 hours, then downgrade to low quicker than a company downgrades its workforce during "Tough Times".Cook some rice to slather on, or don't, its still a badass dish without the carb load down. MMMHHH Badass beans and smoked sausage. Serving Size: 8 slathering bowl fullsNumber of Servings: 8Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user JLANNAN84.

The nutritional information for James' Manly Smoked Red Beans and Sausage is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 8
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 314.2

• Total Fat: 16.6 g
• Cholesterol: 39.9 mg
• Sodium: 1,118.7 mg
• Total Carbs: 25.2 g
• Dietary Fiber: 9.1 g
• Protein: 16.0 g