Black Eyed Peas
Happy new year, friends! I hope that your holiday season has been bright and happy, filled with amazing people and delicious food. Christmas morning was spent eating sweet and sticky monkey bread on our parents bed {no Christmas tree this year as they’re preparing to move into another house} as we unwrapped our homemade gifts from each other. I’m completely and utterly blessed and I hope that you are too. Cheers to the best year yet! And just to ensure that we kick it off the right way, I bring your black eyed peas which are set to bring about good luck.
Black Eyed Peas
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Author: The Squishy Monster
Serves: 6 Servings
Ingredients
- 1 lb dried black eyed peas
- 4-5 oz pork belly {bacon/pork shoulder/smoked turkey/etc}
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 5 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- Salt and pepper
- ¼ ts smoked paprika
- 5 c chicken stock {homemade or low sodium}
- 2 bay leaves
- Optional: Ham hocks, jalapeños/hot sauce
Instructions
- Soak the peas overnight or at least 6 hours. Alternatively for a quicker soak, you can bring all the peas to a rapid boil with 6 cups of water for 2 minutes then remove from heat, cover, and allow to sit for 1 hour. Afterwards, drain and rinse the beans.
- In a large pot/skillet, fry the pork belly with the onions, garlic, salt, pepper, and paprika. When it becomes browned and aromatic, toss the peas to coat.
- After 3-5 minutes, add the stock, bay leaves, and ham hock {if using}. Bring to a boil then simmer on low for about an hour.
Notes
Prep does not include the overnight soak.
Love,
Your Squishy Monster
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Happy New Year Angela!!! I was just thinking about you this morning wondering whether I was right about this being your first new year in your new home:)
A very Happy and Healthy, Prosperous New Year to you Angela. Here, here for the Blacy Eyed Peas!!! Thank you so much for sharing…
Happy Happy Joy Joy!
I hope you have a very happy new year, Allen! Thank you so much for being on this journey with me!!
When I moved to Tennessee for college my now ex-husband’s mother invited us for New Year’s Day lunch. She’d made a pot of the most disgusting black eyed peas and I said I didn’t like them. It was like nuclear war had been set off. By not eating them I was setting the entire family up for ‘ruination’ and spoiling every chance for success in the new year. I still laugh about it.
If YOUR black eyed peas had been on the table, I’d be a millionaire by now.
Yummy! Also loving that video ~ I feel like I can smell the aromatics sizzling here in my kitchen. Yum!
I love the use of smoked paprika here Angela
Your Christmas sounded wonderful! Hope you are enjoying the holiday season so far. These black eyed peas are perfect for starting the new year off right! Happy Happy New Year!! xoxo
HAPPY NEW YEAR SQUISHY! May it be full of new journeys, friends and blessings of FOOD!
A few years ago I was looking for NY Eve foods and I came across black eyed peas! Isn’t it funny how some things become a NYE food!
Happy HAPPY New Year lovely Angela!