Garry's Cajun Dirty Rice
Ok this is an easy recipe. Just dump, stir, and cook... I like mine with quite a bit of bite to it. If you have kids you may want to back way down on the red pepper. I like to eat this with Club Crackers and a cold beer but its good all on its on. It reheats great too....
2 cups rice (Uncle Bens long grain works best)
1 1/2 pounds ground beef
1 can Cream of Chicken soup
1 can Cream of Mushroom soup
1 can French Onion soup
1 1/2 soup cans of water
1 onion chopped
1/2 chopped Bell pepper
1 tsp. garlic powder
1 TBL. salt
1 tsp. RED PEPPER ( this is spicey, cut down to your taste)
1 tsp. paprika
1/4 tsp. black pepper
Brown your meat with the onions. Get a 11 X 13 X 1 1/2" baking pan. Now combine ALL the ingredients, the meat, the soups, the rice, the spices and stir all together throughly. (Don't worry, it will taste much better than it looks at this point) Cover with tin foil and bake in a pre-heated oven at 350 degrees for about 1 hour and 10-15 minutes OR until your rice is done... if you like spicey cajun this is one of my favorite cajun recipes...
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I’m part of the original peoples brother, ain’t really a wrong recipe but a couple of misguided ingredients turns it into something else. Fact of the matter is whats supposed to be “grub” has turned into some gourmet food. You can make gumbo out of everything from can sardines to duck, robin, or woodpecker as long as the “base” is the same. Same for dirty rice.
I remember a time when grill cheese, tomato soup, chicken wings, mud bugs, and much else was for us po-folk.
Heck, I remember when sassafras leaves weren’t a carcinogen
1 bay leaf
1 1/2 cups long-grain rice
1 1/2 tablespoon bacon grease
1/2 pound ground beef or pork sausage
1 medium onion, chopped
1 celery rib, chopped
1/2 green bell pepper, seeded and chopped
1/2 cup finely chopped chicken livers
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons Cajun Seasoning, I like Tony Chachere's
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
Instructions
Set aside 1/2 cup of the chicken broth and pour remaining chicken broth in a medium saucepan. Add 1 1/2 cups water and bay leaf. Bring to boil. Add rice, cover and cook 20 minutes.
Heat bacon grease in a cast iron Dutch oven. Add ground beef and crumble it with a spoon.
Once you have the ground beef crumbled, add onion, celery, and green pepper. Cook stirring occasionally until beef is no longer pink and vegetables are softened. Add chicken livers and garlic and continue to cook 5 minutes.
Add salt, Cajun seasoning, and thyme.
Add reserved chicken broth and scrape the bottom of the pan to release all the brown pieces. Let simmer 1 minute.
Remove bay leaf from rice and add rice to Dutch oven. Stir it into the ground beef mixture. Keep the heat on while you stir. Once it is combined well, remove from heat.
This time of year I save all the dove hearts and breast tenderloin and make a big batch of dirty rice. But I just use the box stuff from Zatarans so I’m no help on recipe. [emoji846]
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