Canned Red Beans, Ground Beef and Sausage

Back on June 10, I wrote a post about canning red beans. Here’s the post where I finished up the canning.

This post is mostly for me so I will be able to find what I did and not have to search for it each time I want to make more red beans to can. 🙂

I used:

• 6 onions
• 6 bell peppers
• 1 bag of celery
• garlic – probably about 6 Tablespoons of chopped garlic
• 6 pounds of small red beans
• 4 pounds of sausage
• 4 pound of ground beef

Today we opened a jar for lunch. I fixed a pot of rice and made a few little snacky things to go with it.

I do believe this was the best beans I’ve ever made. It was so convenient to open that jar, dump it in a pot, add a little water to the jar and swish it around, boil the beans for a few minutes and eat.

When I made this, it filled 19 quarts. The big canner holds 14 quarts and the small canner holds 7 quarts so I need to try to get it closer to either 28 quarts or 21 quarts. No need to waste space in the canner.

Because I think we’d be fine with a little more meat, here’s what I’m going to do next time:

• 8 onions
• 8 bell peppers
• 1-1/2 bags of celery
• 8 T. chopped garlic
• 7 pounds of small red beans
• 7 pounds of ground beef
• 6 pounds of sausage

This is the video I watched and may watch again just to be sure I’m putting in the right proportions of beans/liquid in each jar.