I grew up and lived in Hawaii my whole life. We always do this. Also, when you refrigerate rice it becomes resistant starch and doesn’t effect blood sugar as much. We also wash the rice to get the cornstarch off.
If u want a thicker consistency to the beans u could just break down some of the beans, the starch inside will give u that color and thickness ur looking for, no tomato sauce necessary! ❤❤❤😊😊😊 lot's of love from Brazil 🇧🇷 ❤️
You can also use tomato paste to color/thicken your sauce. It can also add more flavor than tomato sauce. Leftover tomato paste can also be frozen in TB size dollops for future recipes. 😉
Your idea of pre-cooking and freezing ground beef and chicken has been life changing. I have been planning on making extra rice too. Thank you! I unintentionally had some leftover pasta, and froze it and was able to use it with frozen ground beef, the frozen pasta, peas, a small amount BBQ sauce, and topped with extra sharp cheddar cheese yesterday to have for lunch at work. Much to my surprise, I loved it and fixed more for todays work lunch!
Electric pressure cooker beans: 3 cups dried beans 1.5 TBSP salt 2 TBSP minced garlic 1 TBSP Cumin (optional) 7 cups water Push the bean button to cook for 55 minutes. I can use the same recipe for chili beans, but I also add 1/3 cup of chili powder. This makes 3 dinners worth of beans for us. Eat one frreze two flat in quart of sandwich baggie. I can use the same recipe for black-eyed peas, but omit cumin and add some shredded carrots. A ham hock would be nice with the b.e.p.s or with white beans.
Instant pot rice... 1 scoop rice (I believe that is 3/4 cup) plus 2 cups of water. Double or triple as needed. Push the rice button which will do 12 minutes. Let it natural pressure release so the water gets completely absorbed. I think it's about 40 minutes from beginning to end.
Here's why red beans is the perfect meal for Dana to be showing us: it was (and still is) traditionally made on Monday. Monday was traditionally Laundry Day! So you let it cook and simmer in the stove all day while you do your laundry by hand, season with whatever scraps you had from your big Sunday dinner, and it's a quick, satisfying meal for a long day of doing laundry by hand.
Your dogs 😄❤. My dogs appear out of nowhere whenever I open the shredded cheese bag, carrot bag, and peanut butter jar! This looks like a great meal to prepare and I've written it down. Thanks!
I found you on Chef AJ's channel. Like other Chef AJ fans, I'm on a whole foods plant based diet. I love brown rice with red beans! Many of Chef AJ's fans cook and then freeze their brown rice to have it on hand for quick meals.
Hi Dana, love the video! I laughed at the comment at the end about the lady from La. That would be me but I’m certainly not mad! There’s a regional brand of cream style pinto beans here called Blue Runner if you can find them. ( they’re light like you prefer). You have a very nice rice cooker. Did you know you can make jambalaya in there with your same sausage and canned black-eyed peas ?
Totally agree with Reid with the hot sauce. Just for a little kick or a lot if that's what you like. Great ideas about pre cooking things like chicken hamburger and rice for the freezer.
I do this too! Life changer. It’s so much easier than spending 6 hours doing it all at once on Sunday or something. I did that too. Also let’s say you make potatoes the next day, they will stay fresher a day longer. Keeping variety and freshness up. It’s a time saver for sure. 🖤💕
If you have an Instant pot you can cook dry beans with it and have extra to freeze for later too. Reid, my husband would agree with you that the beans need Tabasco sauce! Also, think about how you can change one meal into another meal with the leftovers. Examples are Chicken and Rice can then be Chicken Pot Pie and Spaghetti sauce can be sloppy joes. My daughters favorite is Macaroni and cheese one meal and the next one add a can of Rotel and it’s like Queso macaroni.
I cook and freeze (meal sized portions) pinto beans, black beans and red beans. I work from home, so getting the instant pot out and letting it do its thing while I work is so easy.
Paprika will also color your liquid redish, and add a little zip. Also you can pre-cook your beans. I like red kidney beans and it's hard to find any inexpensive canned beans without the sugar added. So I pre-cook mine in the instant pot. I make extra and freeze it in ice trays or very small amounts, which allows it to thaw more quickly when needed spur of the moment. Good for soups, stews, casseroles, stir fry, ethnic dishes, etc.
Just another thought - I’m not a stove top cooker, I’ve started a fire or three by forgetfulness. I slice my sausage lengthwise *and* slice it like Dana does, then spread pieces on a pan under the broiler in the convection oven with a timer to shut it off (again, ADHD brain, I start kitchen fires by forgetting food is cooking). I like the sausage browned really well. My favorites are Holmes Smokehouse all beef Polska kielbasa or Sam’s Choice (at Walmart).
I can relate! I get bored in the kitchen and tend to wander off (hello ADHD) so I made a rule not to leave the kitchen when something is on the stove, or broiling and always set timers.
@@dianeoello ADHD sister🙌🏻 What a relief to know I’m not alone in this struggle! My pets will distract me, or an idea will pop in my head that I run and act on. I simply can’t trust my brain. I started meds about 2 months ago so hopefully I’ll level up soon. I’ve only recently established a system to remember to take it every day. Sigh
As an aged care worker, I am aware of a stove shut off. Needs to hard-wired by electrician. you use your stove controls normally but the shut off is set for 1, 2 hrs, 20 mins, whatever is likely to prevent a fire. I'm unsure if that setting is changeable once set, but you just press the red button again when cooking longer times. Better to forget to turn the stove on again than forget to turn it off. I'm unsure if there is a kind that works with gas stoves.
I love using kielbasa/Italian sausage/summer sausage! So quick to chop and brown for an easy meal - spaghetti, red beans and rice, or on a sheet pan with an veggies to roast (onion, potatoes, carrots, squash, whatever ya got in the fridge).
I love your pre-cooked meal ideas and have done the ground beef & onion, and the chicken. Now I will try doing the rice. The sausage and beans look good, I’m going to try this too. I’m from Pennsylvania, I’ll probably use kielbasa and skip the Cajun sauce though. I live alone, so single serving, easy meals are just right for me. Thanks for the ideas. Reid, I might skip the hot sauce and red wine too…..
I bought the two week course and it’s great! Can you please share a few more ‘meal ideas’ for using cooked rice? I really, really like your ‘meal ideas’. I’ve got four kids and they are all really picky and listening to you talk it sounds like you understand my struggle 😂
My kids love chicken rice casserole. I’m sure there are many recipes online. I got it from my mother-in-law. 😁 CHICKEN & BROCCOLI CASSEROLE 2 cups cooked chopped chicken 2 cups cooked rice (usually use a little more) 2 cups (1 bag frozen) broccoli, cooked or fresh/thawed 1/4 cup melted butter 1 can cream mushroom soup 1/3-1/2 15 oz. jar cheez whiz (velveeta or shredded cheese if preferred) 1/2 to 1 can water Season however you think. (Salt, pepper, paprika, garlic, etc) I use big pot or skillet, and if my chicken isn’t cooked, I cook it in the butter. Add soup and cheese (and butter if not used yet) warm over med to low heat. Add broccoli and rice. Add water to loosen, not soupy. Put in greased/sprayed 9x13 baking pan. Add crumbs to top if desired. I mix crushed crackers with a little butter. (My mother-in-law adds crushed potato chips after baking 🤷♀️) Bake 45-55 minutes in center of oven until golden on top and bubbly around edges and middle. Center should read 165. Put foil over top if browning too fast.
I have a tasty, quick, and super-easy recipe. But whether your kids will like it depends on how they are about food in a sauce and/or different foods cooked together. Some of my grandkids love it, others only tolerate it because they're young enough to prefer separate food. ;-) Chicken in Wine Sauce 4 chicken breasts (boneless, skinless), cubed or cut in strips 3 medium carrots, thinly sliced (or baby carrots - although those take longer to cook) pepper to taste salt to taste 1/4 C white wine (I've used whatever wine I have around. You can use cooking wine - just eliminate the listed salt) 1 can cream of chicken soup - the regular or the low fat both work Brown chicken (I quit browning it out of laziness and it works fine, so either way is fine.) Add remaining ingredients. Cover and simmer 20 minutes or until tender. The carrots are the last to be done so I simmer until carrots are tender. Serve over rice or noodles. Good with cornbread. Instructions say it can be frozen although I've never done that. One of my daughters adds cubed potatoes when the carrots are added and omits the rice or noodles.
I usually cook twice as much rice as I need and freeze half. I flatten it out in a freezer bag, and when I need it, just thaw it some. On the stove, add chicken broth or brown gravy and make a side dish. With the chicken broth one, I'll throw in some peas and carrots sometimes.
Dana I cook with my dogs that way too! They totally know when a cutting board comes out that something is likely to fall off, and they wouldn't dream of letting it be a mess on the floor 😂.
Do you divide the rice into portions before freezing? If so, do you use ziplock bags or what? I am single but I really like this idea. I need a rice cooker. Never thought so before today bc I thought it would be a waste of rice.
I think it’s concern about food poisoning. If rice is warm for a long time, bacteria grow on it and it can be very nasty. I cool the rice quickly after cooking it the first time, at room temperature for 20-30 minutes, then put it in the fridge uncovered until it’s really cold, then cover it and keep it in the fridge. (The reason for chilling it uncovered first is to avoid longer heat retention and condensation onto the rice.). Then I keep it chilled or frozen and eat it soon if it’s just chilled, withIn a day or two. I’m not a food scientist though, so this is just what works for me. I had food poisoning once from white rice left out too long on a warm day, and never want to experience that again!
I adore your not-a-recipes. They give me hope for feeding my family
I grew up and lived in Hawaii my whole life. We always do this. Also, when you refrigerate rice it becomes resistant starch and doesn’t effect blood sugar as much. We also wash the rice to get the cornstarch off.
Thank you.
That’s good to know
Wow, I thought that only applied to pasta! Good to know about the resistant starch.
Rice reheats great -- just dribble a tiny bit of water on it before you microwave it, and it'll be as soft and fluffy as when it was fresh.
If u want a thicker consistency to the beans u could just break down some of the beans, the starch inside will give u that color and thickness ur looking for, no tomato sauce necessary! ❤❤❤😊😊😊 lot's of love from Brazil 🇧🇷 ❤️
You can also use tomato paste to color/thicken your sauce. It can also add more flavor than tomato sauce. Leftover tomato paste can also be frozen in TB size dollops for future recipes. 😉
Your idea of pre-cooking and freezing ground beef and chicken has been life changing. I have been planning on making extra rice too. Thank you! I unintentionally had some leftover pasta, and froze it and was able to use it with frozen ground beef, the frozen pasta, peas, a small amount BBQ sauce, and topped with extra sharp cheddar cheese yesterday to have for lunch at work. Much to my surprise, I loved it and fixed more for todays work lunch!
Electric pressure cooker beans:
3 cups dried beans
1.5 TBSP salt
2 TBSP minced garlic
1 TBSP Cumin (optional)
7 cups water
Push the bean button to cook for 55 minutes.
I can use the same recipe for chili beans, but I also add 1/3 cup of chili powder.
This makes 3 dinners worth of beans for us. Eat one frreze two flat in quart of sandwich baggie.
I can use the same recipe for black-eyed peas, but omit cumin and add some shredded carrots. A ham hock would be nice with the b.e.p.s or with white beans.
Instant pot rice...
1 scoop rice (I believe that is 3/4 cup) plus 2 cups of water. Double or triple as needed. Push the rice button which will do 12 minutes. Let it natural pressure release so the water gets completely absorbed. I think it's about 40 minutes from beginning to end.
Love your dog and seeing her ears. What a good dog❤
Your precious dog is so sweet. What a good dog. The meal looks delicious too 😊
Here's why red beans is the perfect meal for Dana to be showing us: it was (and still is) traditionally made on Monday. Monday was traditionally Laundry Day! So you let it cook and simmer in the stove all day while you do your laundry by hand, season with whatever scraps you had from your big Sunday dinner, and it's a quick, satisfying meal for a long day of doing laundry by hand.
Your dogs 😄❤. My dogs appear out of nowhere whenever I open the shredded cheese bag, carrot bag, and peanut butter jar! This looks like a great meal to prepare and I've written it down. Thanks!
Precooked rice is perfect for fried rice🎉.
I would recommend tossing in a bag of frozen vegetables.
I found you on Chef AJ's channel. Like other Chef AJ fans, I'm on a whole foods plant based diet. I love brown rice with red beans! Many of Chef AJ's fans cook and then freeze their brown rice to have it on hand for quick meals.
Definitely my style of cooking!! This is how I cook on a regular basis- thank you for making it normal and not needing it to be extra fancy 😊
Hi Dana, love the video! I laughed at the comment at the end about the lady from La. That would be me but I’m certainly not mad! There’s a regional brand of cream style pinto beans here called Blue Runner if you can find them. ( they’re light like you prefer). You have a very nice rice cooker. Did you know you can make jambalaya in there with your same sausage and canned black-eyed peas ?
Totally agree with Reid with the hot sauce. Just for a little kick or a lot if that's what you like. Great ideas about pre cooking things like chicken hamburger and rice for the freezer.
I do this too! Life changer. It’s so much easier than spending 6 hours doing it all at once on Sunday or something. I did that too. Also let’s say you make potatoes the next day, they will stay fresher a day longer. Keeping variety and freshness up. It’s a time saver for sure. 🖤💕
Love how that sausage "rolled" off 😆
Love this info!! Always needing ways to cook with less hassle! 😬
Sounds like a tasty, quick meal and I need to remember to cook extra rice when I make it.
You are spot on! 👏👏👏
If you have an Instant pot you can cook dry beans with it and have extra to freeze for later too. Reid, my husband would agree with you that the beans need Tabasco sauce! Also, think about how you can change one meal into another meal with the leftovers. Examples are Chicken and Rice can then be Chicken Pot Pie and Spaghetti sauce can be sloppy joes. My daughters favorite is Macaroni and cheese one meal and the next one add a can of Rotel and it’s like Queso macaroni.
I cook and freeze (meal sized portions) pinto beans, black beans and red beans. I work from home, so getting the instant pot out and letting it do its thing while I work is so easy.
Ive never heard of Red Beans and Rice, but seems simple and yummy!
Paprika will also color your liquid redish, and add a little zip.
Also you can pre-cook your beans. I like red kidney beans and it's hard to find any inexpensive canned beans without the sugar added. So I pre-cook mine in the instant pot. I make extra and freeze it in ice trays or very small amounts, which allows it to thaw more quickly when needed spur of the moment. Good for soups, stews, casseroles, stir fry, ethnic dishes, etc.
Just another thought - I’m not a stove top cooker, I’ve started a fire or three by forgetfulness. I slice my sausage lengthwise *and* slice it like Dana does, then spread pieces on a pan under the broiler in the convection oven with a timer to shut it off (again, ADHD brain, I start kitchen fires by forgetting food is cooking).
I like the sausage browned really well.
My favorites are Holmes Smokehouse all beef Polska kielbasa or Sam’s Choice (at Walmart).
I can relate! I get bored in the kitchen and tend to wander off (hello ADHD) so I made a rule not to leave the kitchen when something is on the stove, or broiling and always set timers.
@@dianeoello ADHD sister🙌🏻 What a relief to know I’m not alone in this struggle! My pets will distract me, or an idea will pop in my head that I run and act on. I simply can’t trust my brain.
I started meds about 2 months ago so hopefully I’ll level up soon. I’ve only recently established a system to remember to take it every day. Sigh
@@brendatomlinson Wow, yes! My dogs and cats demand attention and off I go, LOL. Same with ideas popping into my head. Good luck with the meds 👍
@@dianeoThanks! You’re never too old to get diagnosed and treated - me at 60!
As an aged care worker, I am aware of a stove shut off. Needs to hard-wired by electrician. you use your stove controls normally but the shut off is set for 1, 2 hrs, 20 mins, whatever is likely to prevent a fire. I'm unsure if that setting is changeable once set, but you just press the red button again when cooking longer times. Better to forget to turn the stove on again than forget to turn it off. I'm unsure if there is a kind that works with gas stoves.
Yay!!! It looks great!!! Thanks!
I love your meal planning videos. Meal planning at the speed of life!
I love using kielbasa/Italian sausage/summer sausage! So quick to chop and brown for an easy meal - spaghetti, red beans and rice, or on a sheet pan with an veggies to roast (onion, potatoes, carrots, squash, whatever ya got in the fridge).
I love your pre-cooked meal ideas and have done the ground beef & onion, and the chicken. Now I will try doing the rice. The sausage and beans look good, I’m going to try this too. I’m from Pennsylvania, I’ll probably use kielbasa and skip the Cajun sauce though. I live alone, so single serving, easy meals are just right for me. Thanks for the ideas. Reid, I might skip the hot sauce and red wine too…..
Love that you gave the dogs sausage. Feels like my house. 😂
I love your meal idea recipes videos b/c it gets us sooooo many tips and tricks
I bought the two week course and it’s great! Can you please share a few more ‘meal ideas’ for using cooked rice? I really, really like your ‘meal ideas’. I’ve got four kids and they are all really picky and listening to you talk it sounds like you understand my struggle 😂
My kids love chicken rice casserole. I’m sure there are many recipes online. I got it from my mother-in-law. 😁
CHICKEN & BROCCOLI CASSEROLE
2 cups cooked chopped chicken
2 cups cooked rice (usually use a little more)
2 cups (1 bag frozen) broccoli, cooked or fresh/thawed
1/4 cup melted butter
1 can cream mushroom soup
1/3-1/2 15 oz. jar cheez whiz (velveeta or shredded cheese if preferred)
1/2 to 1 can water
Season however you think. (Salt, pepper, paprika, garlic, etc)
I use big pot or skillet, and if my chicken isn’t cooked, I cook it in the butter.
Add soup and cheese (and butter if not used yet) warm over med to low heat.
Add broccoli and rice. Add water to loosen, not soupy.
Put in greased/sprayed 9x13 baking pan.
Add crumbs to top if desired. I mix crushed crackers with a little butter.
(My mother-in-law adds crushed potato chips after baking 🤷♀️)
Bake 45-55 minutes in center of oven until golden on top and bubbly around edges and middle. Center should read 165.
Put foil over top if browning too fast.
I have a tasty, quick, and super-easy recipe. But whether your kids will like it depends on how they are about food in a sauce and/or different foods cooked together. Some of my grandkids love it, others only tolerate it because they're young enough to prefer separate food. ;-)
Chicken in Wine Sauce
4 chicken breasts (boneless, skinless), cubed or cut in strips
3 medium carrots, thinly sliced (or baby carrots - although those take longer to cook)
pepper to taste
salt to taste
1/4 C white wine (I've used whatever wine I have around. You can use cooking wine - just eliminate the listed salt)
1 can cream of chicken soup - the regular or the low fat both work
Brown chicken (I quit browning it out of laziness and it works fine, so either way is fine.) Add remaining ingredients. Cover and simmer 20 minutes or until tender. The carrots are the last to be done so I simmer until carrots are tender.
Serve over rice or noodles.
Good with cornbread.
Instructions say it can be frozen although I've never done that.
One of my daughters adds cubed potatoes when the carrots are added and omits the rice or noodles.
I usually cook twice as much rice as I need and freeze half. I flatten it out in a freezer bag, and when I need it, just thaw it some. On the stove, add chicken broth or brown gravy and make a side dish. With the chicken broth one, I'll throw in some peas and carrots sometimes.
Youre right, about 10 minutes for cooked ingredients with added spices is plenty. 👍Looks great and is great vegan too.
The sausage TENDS TO roll off :D my food tends to do that to... coincidence...? I don't think so!
I really enjoy your cooking videos. ☺️
Dana I cook with my dogs that way too! They totally know when a cutting board comes out that something is likely to fall off, and they wouldn't dream of letting it be a mess on the floor 😂.
Great time saver, love this, also you can add a packet of sazon(Goya)turns everything red with a lil added flavor
Ninja Chef has a great red beans recipe…but if your family is fine with canned, just keep it easy for you and your home.
Will definitely try this not a recipe, thanks for sharing.
Instapot works great for rice.
Tabasco goes better with everything Reid!!! Though I'm a sucker for Franks Red Hot
Thanks. This is so helpful.
My son grabs leftover rice, fries it up, and mixes it with scrambled eggs. Often there's sausage or leftover meat, too.
Will you please share the brand of your pan. I need something like that in my kitchen. 😊
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Do you divide the rice into portions before freezing? If so, do you use ziplock bags or what? I am single but I really like this idea. I need a rice cooker. Never thought so before today bc I thought it would be a waste of rice.
I put a cup or two into each sandwich-sized ziplock bag and then put those bags into one freezer gallon ziplock bag and freeze.
@@victoriaoliver9958aha great, great idea! Thanks mucho
I have trouble freezing rice. I cook brown rice. The texture changes.
Try the vegan chorizo. Even the dog will like it. 🙂 #nocrueltysausage
Guess what I'm hungry for now.
Take Your House Back Course - how do I pay for this in £ GBP?
LOL...just rolls off your cutting board.
And why then does everyone say you cannot reheat rice ?
Of course you can, use the microwave or make fried rice.
I think it’s concern about food poisoning. If rice is warm for a long time, bacteria grow on it and it can be very nasty. I cool the rice quickly after cooking it the first time, at room temperature for 20-30 minutes, then put it in the fridge uncovered until it’s really cold, then cover it and keep it in the fridge. (The reason for chilling it uncovered first is to avoid longer heat retention and condensation onto the rice.). Then I keep it chilled or frozen and eat it soon if it’s just chilled, withIn a day or two. I’m not a food scientist though, so this is just what works for me. I had food poisoning once from white rice left out too long on a warm day, and never want to experience that again!