Ingredients
Requirements
- Large pan
- Frying pan
Brown beans with salt beef is Creole comfort food: a thick pot of beans with salt beef that has been simmering for hours, served with white rice. It is the kind of food that feels like home on a cold day, and you can smell it throughout the house before it even makes it to the table.
First, cook the salt beef separately for ten minutes and drain the water. It is so salty that you cannot cook with it otherwise, and this way you remove just enough salt so that you can season the pot to taste afterwards.
The beans need to soak overnight and then simmer on low heat for another hour. The longer they simmer, the more they break down and the thicker the pot becomes, which is exactly how they should be: more like a stew than a soup.
Ingredients