Fat Tuesday's Skinny Red Beans and Rice

Hey all you lovers of cooking!

This is my first post, hopefully you'll have time to follow up with some yourself. Since Fat Tuesday's coming up, I thought I would share what I'll be making: Fat Tuesday's Skinny Red Beans and Rice

I made this one up a couple of weeks ago - yumm...

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 large cloves garlic lightly crushed and chopped
• 1 large red onion, diced
• 2-3 stalks celery - include leaves if you can!
• 1 green bell pepper - stemmed, seeded and diced
• 2 cans of red kidney beans
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 1 teaspoon tarragon
• 1/4 teaspoon (or to taste) cumin
• 1/4 teaspoon (or to taste) cayenne pepper
• kosher salt - to taste
• ground black pepper - to taste
• 3-4 shakes/drops of hot sauce (or to taste)
• 1 can chicken broth - low fat/low sodium (fat free)
• smoked turkey kielbasa - sliced
• 1 boil-in-bag brown rice
• Italian flat leaf parsley or cilantro

Directions

Heat olive oil over medium-high heat in large saucepan. Saute garlic, onion, celery, and bell pepper until tender with a little salt and pepper. Add kielbasa and continue cooking until heated through. Stir in kidney beans, spices, hot sauce and chicken broth - bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer while you cook the rice separately.

When rice is finished, fold rice and beans/kielbasa together - garnish with parsley or cilantro

As an alternative, you might try to add a can of diced tomotoes with the chicken broth