New Year’s Hoppin John Casserole
This casserole takes spicy, andouille sausage, a boxed dirty rice mix, and canned Southern-style black-eyed peas. It mixes it with fresh aromatic veggies, sour cream, and mushroom soup for a creamy, slightly spicy, and satisfying dish that freezes beautifully.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour, 5 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour, 25 minutes
- Yield: 8-10 servings 1x
- Category: Main Dish
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: Creole
Ingredients
4 tablespoons butter
1 pound andouille sausage, cut into ¼-inch slices
1 small onion, diced
1 red bell pepper, diced
2 celery stalks, diced
1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and diced
1 can (10-ounce) Rotel diced tomatoes with green chiles, drained
1 (8-ounce) box Zatarain’s Dirty Rice mix
2 ½ cups low-sodium chicken stock
2 cans (15-ounce) Southern-style black eyed peas, drained if needed
1 – 2 teaspoons low sodium creole seasoning, more or less to taste
1 (10.5 ounce) can cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
1 cup sour cream
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a deep 9×13 inch casserole dish with cooking spray and set aside.
Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the sliced sausage and saute, stirring often, to render some of the fat from the sausage – about 10 minutes.
Add the onions, peppers, celery, and jalapeno, and saute until the onions are translucent – about 8 minutes.
Stir in the Rotel tomatoes, rice mix, and chicken stock. Brig up to a boil, cover, lower the heat and simmer until the liquid is absorbed – about 15 minutes.
Stir in the black eyed peas, creole spice, mushroom soup, and sour cream.
Pour the mixture into the prepared casserole dish.
Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes or until bubbly and thick.
Serve with cornbread and hot sauce.
Notes
To make in advance, complete the instructions for the recipe, but do not bake. Place the mixture into the casserole dish and cover tightly with plastic wrap. Place in the refrigerator. Remove the plastic wrap before baking the next day.
To freeze, portion the casserole into freezer containers and freeze up to 3 months. To reheat, thaw in the refrigerator and microwave on 50% power for 4-6 minutes or until hot throughout.
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