The Easiest Hot Sausage & Kidney Beans With Rice

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• cooked rice (for 4)
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 green bell pepper, deseeded and chopped
• 1 onion, peeled and chopped (yellow or sweet)
• 15 ounces kidney beans, drained
• hillshire farm beef hot links (6 sausages)
• salsa

Recipe

• 1 get your rice started so that it'll be finished cooking when you are ready to eat.
• 2 slice the hot links lengthwise and then cut into bite-sized pieces.
• 3 peel your onion & de-seed the pepper. cut the green pepper and onion into 1/2 inch chunks (you could also do strips, if you prefer).
• 4 heat your oil in a large skillet over medium heat. add your peppers and onions and cook until they are the desired "done-ness" (i prefer mine well-cooked, so i occasionally pop them in the microwave for a minute or two to speed up the cooking process.).
• 5 remove peppers & onions from skillet (place in a bowl until later).
• 6 place sausage in skillet and cook until desired "done-ness" (we like ours nearly "blackened" with a bit of crisp on the outside).
• 7 drain most of the oil from skillet and then return onions/peppers. add the can of kidney beans (drained).
• 8 continue cooking for several minutes to heat the beans and get some of the sausage flavor in the veggies.
• 9 to serve: spoon a scoop of cooked rice on each plate/bowl (this is a bowl meal at our house!) then top with the sausage mixture. a hearty spoonful (or two) of salsa on top finishes it off!
• 10 this is usually from cabinets/fridge to plate in about 30 minutes. this time-range depends on how well cooked you like the vegetables, if you do any pre-cooking in the microwave, etc.
• 11 in our house this recipe, as indicated above, serves 2 adults and 2 children (under the age of 3), with one serving leftover. i estimate that to serve *about* four.