What side meat for white beans/cornbread? (1 Viewer)

[0rion]

Doing a lot of white beans today. Normally I fry up some hog jaw. Beans have ham in them already but I always like to have that 2nd meat. Daughter has been braces so probably can't do hog jaw so I'm looking for a back up meat. Seems back in the day mom would do fried chicken but that doesn't sound quite right either. I could do us hog jaw and my daughter some regular bacon I guess? Or skillet fry some thick ham slices?

 

[Zack Lee]

I love pork with beans so even with the ham in them (which I would do the same or sometimes pickled pork) I think I would do thin cut fried pork chop.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

i really only ever do sausage
1/2 cooking the whole time, 1/2 maybe the last 10-20 minutes

 

[antipop]

Patton's hot sausage

 

[DCSaints_Fan]

Chilled monkey brains

 

[Zack Lee]

sausage is good but don't we all pretty much do that with red beans? You have to change up the whole thing, else the beans do not offer a solid alt for each other.

 

[Infoman]

Pan Fried Italian Breaded Pork Chops/Cutlets is my "go to" as a White Bean side

Thin Southern Fried Catfish also works

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

sausage is good but don't we all pretty much do that with red beans? You have to change up the whole thing, else the beans do not offer a solid alt for each other.

sausage

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

I don't know that it needs a second meat, but if you must, I'd go with either luncheon or potted. The potted meat should be most "braces friendly".

If the beans are already smoky and spicy, maybe go with a milder sausage like turkey or chicken? I usually use pork tenderloin in black-eyed peas (haven't had white beans since I moved out of my parents home decades ago), so that could possibly work as well.
Smoked or hot sausage often goes with red beans, but I guess they'd work.

Lamb fries or Rocky Mountain oysters are also a good option.

 

[0rion]

Pork chops would be a good one...never thought of doing those. I like my hog jaw and only eat it when we have beans so I'm doing that I think but may try up a pork chop or 2 for my daughter....and for me to try

 

[HoustonSaint68]

Pork chop, thin to medium thick, fried in a hot cast iron skillet. No need to overthink white beans and cornbread.

When I was a teenager I was in a group that used to go help when a hurricane was coming. Had this exact meal on a tugboat after a long day of filling sandbags in Golden Meadow — still among the best meals I’ve ever had in my life.

 

[kewee]

Fried catfish and white beans.

 

[DaveXA]

sausage

Side sausage.

 

[gpupil]

Pickle meat

 

[Zack Lee]

sausage

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