Spicy Beef and New Orleans Red Rice Skillet Dinner

Name: Spicy Beef and New Orleans Red Rice Skillet Dinner
Yield: serves 4
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon olive oil; 1 pound ground beef; 2 1/4 teaspoons salt; 2 celery ribs, diced, plus celery leaves, chopped, for garnish (optional); 1 medium onion, diced; 1/2 green bell pepper, seeded and diced; 2 cups chicken broth; One 14-ounce can tomato purée; 1 1/2 cups uncooked long-grain rice; 1 teaspoon sugar; 2 teaspoons Tabasco or other hot sauce

December 9, 2011

We always have a red rice dish on the buffet table at The Lady & Sons. Here we added beef to the skillet to turn our Cajun-influenced red rice dish into an easy crowd-pleaser. Since we’re on the Georgia coast, we’ll also do red rice with sausage and shrimp, so you can use that instead if you like: Just brown crumbled sausage in place of the beef and stir in a half pound of shelled shrimp for the last five minutes of simmering (or until they’re pink).

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