Sorry to be to the contrary on this recipe..but I am a NATIVE Charlestonian..and my Grandmothers and Great Aunts handed down the recipe through our family (Gaillard)...the red rice "I" have grown to know, love and STILL make...starts with a tomato sauce or paste cooked to a soup and THEN rice is added and cooks and soaks up the liquid...giving a 'dry' rice dish...this was not AUTHENTIC !
Everytime we fix this dish it is perfect & it makes for great leftovers, as there are only 2 of us. Neither of us eat peppers or onions, so we fix ours without them. We tend to use spicy or mild Italian sausage in place of the smoked turkey sausage & bacon. Either way, it's delicious!
Surprisingly great. After reading other reviews I chose to put all ingredients in a 13x9 pan (after frying up the onions garlic sausage etc) and bake at 375 for 1hr. The consistency of my rice was good not mushy. I also added a can of white beans.
As a Savannah GA native I was hesitant to try any other red rice recipe but my own. Maybe because I now live in Charleston it added the perfect flavor! hahaha.. Great recipe! Thanks I will use it again!
I MADE THIS RICE FRIDAY NIGHT WITH HOPES THAT IT WOULD TASTE LIKE ME GRANDMAS RICE FROM SC. THE FLAVOR WAS AWSOME BUT MY RICE CAME OUT MUSHY. I FOLLOWED THE RECIPE TO A T. I KNOW MY GRANDMA USED PARBOILED RICE FOR HER RECIPE AND USED A BROWN PAPER BAG TO DRAW OUT THE MIOSTURE. FLAVOR WAS GREAT BUT ONCE AGAIN RICE WASH MUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmm...I was wary of the spaghetti sauce...but the result was good. I think the outcome depends largely on the type of sausage used. And I did not blend the mixture and bake it for an hour. Seemed unnecessary. Instead I simmered the mixture--without the rice--for a half hour then I served it over the rice like red beans and rice. It was yummy. Oh and I added a nice dose of my favorite hot sauce--Ring 'O Fire! It really gave it a nice flavorful Louisiana kick.
Very good recipe! I used to live in Charleston and this was one of my local favorites from the Piggly Wiggly deli. I omitted the bacon and just sauteed the veggies in a couple tablespoons of bacon grease. I used regular smoked sausage rather than turkey.
I don't know what Red Rice and Sausage is supposed to look/taste like but this was pretty good. Some of the gang didn't care for it but my son and I really liked it. Dashed a bit of hot sauce on it and it was even better. I will make this again. Thanks for the recipe.
This was good but not outright delicious. I will make it again though. I took the advice of another reviewer and undercooked the rice. It isn't clear what to do with the bacon once it is cooked so I diced it up and added to the rice. I didn't drain the tomatoes and the texture turned out perfectly. I think part of the charm is the crunchy bottom and top with a soft middle. Not spicy at all even though I added several splashes of Tobasco to the tomatoe sausage mixture. Husband had three servings. It makes a lot.
