Megan’s Sausage and Beans Recipe

This family favorite recipe comes to us from Megan W.  Megan is a loyal reader and member of the Simple Daily Recipes' family.

Megan wrote: Mom used to make this and now I do it when I'm wanting something easy, inexpensive,  filling, and delicious, especially on cold nights.

Ingredients

• 1  15-ounce can whole cooked unseasoned tomatoes
• 1 15-ounce can your choice of red beans/kidney beans
• 1 pound of your choice of ground seasoned sausage (traditional seasoning usually works best, spicy, mild or medium...I'm talking Jimmy Dean or the like, here.)
• 1 cup uncooked rice of your choice
• 1 cup water

(This recipe is easily altered to use less meat, or more or less of any ingredient to taste. Sizes given produce about 4 reasonably sized bowls).

1. Brown sausage in a medium-sized deep pan on medium heat.  Break apart into small chunks. Drain off fat, if desired. I don't.
2. Add tomatoes, crushing by hand into chunks, including all juice from the can
3. Add beans with their liquid.
5. Add water until mixture is sloppy.
6. Bring to a low boil, then reduce heat and simmer until thickened, about half an hour.

In the meantime, cook rice as you would normally do and set aside. I try to plan it so the rice is still good and warm when my sauce is done.

Serve sausage and beans over warm rice. Add salt/pepper to taste, although the sausage does 99.9% of the seasoning by itself.

P.S. Leftover sauce only gets better after storage in the fridge... make a big batch!

That's it.

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