Popeye'S Red Beans And Rice Ii

• beans
• 1/4 cup pork fat
• 2 (15 ounce) cans red beans or (15 ounce) cans kidney beans
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 teaspoon brown sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 dash garlic powder
• 1 dash onion powder
• 1 dash hot pepper sauce
• rice
• 2 1/4 cups water
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup rice

1. Melt pork fat. Combine 1/4 cup pork fat with one 15-ounce can red beans plus liquid in a medium saucepan. Add 1/2 cup water, brown sugar, 1/8 teaspoon salt, garlic powder, and onion powder. Bring mixture to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes. Use a potato masher to smash beans into a paste-like consistency. Add entire contents of remaining can of beans to the mixture and cook for an additional 10 minutes.
2. Prepare rice for 4 servings. For Uncle Ben's converted rice you bring 2 1/4 cups water to a boil. Add 1/4 cup butter and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Add 1 cup of rice, reduce heat to low and simmer rice for 20 minutes or until tender.
3. To prepare each serving scoop 1 cup of beans into a bowl. Add 1 cup of rice on top of the beans and serve.
4. ****If you can't find pork lard -- Buy 2 pounds of smoked ham hocks and render the fat from the smoked ham hocks. Preheat oven to 375 degrees and place the ham hocks in a deep pan. Cover pan with foil and bake for 4 to 5 hours or until 1/4 cup of fat has rendered from the hocks.

beans, pork fat, red beans, water, brown sugar, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, pepper sauce, rice, water, butter, salt, rice

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/popeyes-red-beans-and-rice-ii-381532 (may not work)