Happy New Year!
In the South, they eat black-eyed peas for good luck on New Year’s. I used to eat them when visiting family in Tennessee and Mississippi. If you boil them or season them, they aren’t much.
We curried them today and they are fantastic. I like it better than Hoppin John. Turns out, lots of cultures eat black-eyed peas so we gave them the Indian treatment.
If you are a Michigan fan, you better start shoving some black-eyed peas in your mouth based on the way the Big 10 has played so far today, and in the bowl season.
Iowa hit the under today again.
Here is the recipe we used. You don’t necessarily need an Instant Pot but it makes it a lot easier.
Soak three cups of black eyed peas in salted water overnight.
Chop an onion and one carrot and saute them.
Add three tablespoons of curry powder and stir
Deglaze the pot with a can of crushed tomatoes
Salt and black pepper to taste.
Add the three cups of black-eyed peas, stir
Add one can of coconut milk, stir
Add two cups of chicken stock
In an Instant pot, you cook it 35 minutes. In a pot, you simmer until the peas are tender.
Serve them over rice.
Somewhere there's a joke about Nikki Haley, Dixie, curry and Black Eyed Peas.
My Texas relatives have black eyed peas for New Years.
I've been making them steamed for an hour, then fried with bacon and Marconi Foods Giardiniera peppers. Really good, and costs next to nothing per serving. Makes a good side to burgers or chops, and much healthier than fries or chips.