Slow Cooker Red Beans (louisiana Style)

Total Time: 3 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 lb red kidney beans
• 1 -2 slice ham (center-cut slice with bone)
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 8 ounces canned pineapple chunks (will be used only to season ham and not put in beans!)
• 12 ounces little smokies sausages
• 1 green bell pepper
• 1 tablespoon garlic (minced)
• seasoning salt (to taste)
• hot sauce (to taste)
• 1 bay leaf
• 1/2 large onion
• 2 stalks celery

Recipe

• 1 rinse beans three times with cold water.
• 2 let soak for an hour or overnight.
• 3 rinse ham and put in hot skillet and cover with brown sugar and pineapples and bring to a boil. cook until red and curling. remove only ham from the skillet and cut it into big pieces.
• 4 chop bell pepper, onion, celery and put in crockpot. add bay leaf, garlic and seasoning salt and ham. add beans and water to where it is 2 inches above beans. then cook on high for two hours then low until beans are done (about one more hour).
• 5 serve with rice and cornbread and a few dashes of hot sauce.