My Slow Cooker Pintos Smoked Sausage Recipes

Steps:

• 1. rinse and look through beans put into 7 quart slow cooker with beef boullion cubes add enough water to cover beans probably about 4 quarts allowing beans to swell and not get dried out
• 2. cook on high about 4 hours turn on low cook about 4 more hours
• 3. add chopped onion and sliced sausage and salt to taste then allow beans to cook on low for at least 4 more hours on low
• 4. great served with homemade southern cornbread

Steps:

• Cover pinto beans with water in a bowl and allow to soak overnight. Drain.
• Melt butter in a 6-quart stock pot over medium heat. Cook and stir onion and celery in butter until vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes.
• Stir garlic into onion mixture until fragrant, about 1 minute more.
• Stir beef broth, tomato juice, sugar, and drained pinto beans into the vegetable mixture and bring to a boil; reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until beans are tender, about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
• Mix potatoes, carrots, oregano, salt, and black pepper into the bean soup; simmer until potatoes are tender, about 30 minutes more.
• Preheat the oven's broiler and set the oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source.
• Place smoked sausage on a baking sheet.
• Bake sausage in the preheated oven until browned, about 10 minutes.
• Cut sausage into quarters, then slice. Add sausage and parsley to the soup; continue to simmer for 10 more minutes.