How can I make rice like the kind they have at Popeye's?!
How can I make rice like the kind they have at Popeye's?
Does anyone have a recipe? I think it is called cajun rice or sometime's dirty rice. I'm pretty sure the meat in it is liver.
Answers:
Dirty Rice
2 cups uncooked rice
1 pound chicken livers and gizzards
1/2 pound ground beef
? cup chopped onions
1 green pepper - chopped
1/2 cup chopped celery
1 cloves garlic - chopped
2 green onions or scallions chopped
? tsp salt
? tsp black pepper
Cook the rice according to package instructions. Cooking rice is an art unto itself so I won’t tell you how to cook it. I grew up adding a few pats of butter to the cooking water so that the grains did not stick together. Now, in my household we use a rice cooker and want the rice to stick together. After spending several years in the orient, rice is actually a staple around my house.
Anyway… cook the gizzards and livers in a separate pot. After about 10 minutes over medium heat they should be done enough. Strain and then chopped the livers and gizzards. Brown the ground beef in a skillet. Pour off the grease after the ground beef is done. Add all of the other ingredients except the rice. Cook for another 15 minutes over medium heat. Stir in the rice and continue cooking over medium heat for another 5 minutes stirring a few times.
Hi !!!
Here you go...ENJOY!!!
Popeye's Cajun Rice
1 pound lean ground beef
1/2 cup finely diced bell pepper
1/3 cup diced green onions
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon celery flakes
1 teaspoon Creole seasoning
1/4 teaspoon red pepper
4 cups long grain rice, cooked and drained
1/4 to 1/3 cup water
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
In fry pan stir ground beef and bell pepper. Cook over medium high heat until beef loses its pink color and bell pepper is soft. Remove excess grease. Turn temperature down to medium or medium low. Add remaining ingredients; stir and cook together until ground beef is completely cooked and liquid is gone - about 25 to 35 minutes. More Creole seasoning and red pepper may be added for taste.
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Popeye's Biscuits
4 cups Bisquick
4 ounces sour cream
1 cup club soda (at room temperature)
1/2 cup (1 stick) margarine
Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
Mix Bisquick, sour cream and club soda together. Pour onto floured surface and knead very lightly. Roll out to about 1/2-inch thickness and cut with cutter. Melt butter and pour half into a glass casserole dish. Place biscuits in dish and pour remaining butter over top of biscuits.
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Popeye's Cajun Gravy
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 chicken gizzard
2 tablespoons minced green bell pepper
1/4 cup ground beef
1/4 cup ground pork
2 cups water
1 (14 ounce) can beef broth
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons milk
2 teaspoons distilled white vinegar
1 teaspoon granulated sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
1/8 teaspoon onion powder
Dash dried parsley flakes
- Heat vegetable oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Sauté hicken gizzard in the oil for 4 to 5 minutes until cooked. Remove gizzard from the pan and let cool. Finely mince the gizzard after it has cooled.
- Combine ground beef and ground pork. Mix with your hands until well mixed.
- Add bell pepper to the saucepan and sauté it for 1 minute. Add ground beef and pork to the pan and cook brown. Mash meat into tiny pieces as it browns.
- Add water and beef broth to the saucepan, then immediately whisk in cornstarch and flour.
- Add remaining ingredients and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer gravy until thick - about 30 to 35 minutes.
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Popeye's Red Beans and Rice
3 (16 ounce) cans red beans
(2 cans with liquid, 1 can drained )
1/2 to 3/4 pound smoked ham hock
1 1/4 cups water
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
1/4 teaspoon red pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt or to taste
1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon lard
1/4 teaspoon freshly-ground black pepper
4 to 5 cups long grain rice, cooked and drained
- Pour 2 cans of beans with their liquid into a 2-quart saucepan. Add smoked ham hock and water. Simmer over medium heat for 1 hour until the meat starts to loosen from the bone.
- Remove from heat and cool until the hock is cool enough so the meat may be removed from the bone. Place the meat, beans and liquid in a food processor. To the mixture add onion powder, garlic salt, red pepper, salt, and lard. Process for only 4 seconds. Beans should be chopped and liquid thick. Add the third can of beans that have been drained of their liquid. Process just for a second or two; you want these beans to remain almost whole. Pour bean mixture back into to pan and cook slowly on low heat stirring often until ready to serve.
Serve over rice.
Theres a simple substistute. use Zatarains dirty rice mix. It taste the same. Plus its like 2 bucks.