Black-eyed peas, also known as cowpeas or black-eyed beans, are small, round legumes with a creamy texture and a slightly nutty flavor. They are a staple ingredient in many cuisines around the world, particularly in Southern and African-American cooking. Black-eyed peas are often cooked with rice, and this combination is a classic comfort food that is enjoyed by people of all ages. Beyond the classic combination with rice, black-eyed peas are also featured in a variety of other flavorful and nutritious recipes, such as soups, stews, salads, and even desserts. From a hearty and filling main course to a refreshing and vibrant side dish, this article offers a diverse collection of black-eyed pea recipes that cater to various tastes and preferences. Whether you're a seasoned home cook or a beginner in the kitchen, these recipes provide step-by-step instructions and helpful tips to ensure a successful culinary experience. So, get ready to embark on a culinary journey and discover the versatility and deliciousness of black-eyed peas.
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EASY BLACK EYED PEAS AND RICE (INSTANT POT/STOVE TOP!)
A heart-healthy, Southern classic side dishmade with brown rice. Get a taste of home in 20 minutes!
Provided by KeyVion Miller RDN, LD/N
Categories Side Dish
Time 25m
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Drain and rinse black-eyed peas in a colander
Nutrition Facts : ServingSize 0.5 cup, Calories 115 kcal, Carbohydrate 23 g, Protein 4 g, Fat 1 g, SaturatedFat 1 g, TransFat 1 g, Cholesterol 1 mg, Sodium 94 mg, Fiber 2 g, Sugar 2 g, UnsaturatedFat 2 g
BLACK-EYED PEAS AND RICE
Black-eyed peas with rice.
Provided by Negman
Categories Main Dish Recipes Rice Beans and Rice Recipes
Time 9h5m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Place black-eyed peas into a large container and cover with several inches of cool water; let stand 8 hours to overnight. Drain and rinse.
- Heat olive oil in a pot over medium heat; cook and stir ham until browned, about 5 minutes. Add onion, green bell pepper, and garlic; saute until onion is tender, about 10 minutes. Add black-eyed peas, water, bay leaves, paprika, salt, and black pepper; cover pot with a lid and simmer until peas are tender, 40 to 50 minutes.
- Remove bay leaves from black-eyed peas mixture and stir in rice. Simmer until all the liquid is evaporated, 5 to 10 more minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 274.3 calories, Carbohydrate 41.7 g, Cholesterol 10.6 mg, Fat 6.4 g, Fiber 3.9 g, Protein 12.6 g, SaturatedFat 1.7 g, Sodium 277.5 mg, Sugar 3.1 g
CREOLE BLACK-EYED PEAS AND RICE
An easy spicy dish. Adjust the spices to your needs - less Creole Seasoning if you like it mild, add chili powder or cayenne pepper for more kick! This is also good with salsa on top. You can substitute 1/2 pound dried black-eyed peas, cooked for the canned black-eyed peas if you wish.
Provided by Sola
Categories Side Dish Rice Side Dish Recipes
Time 55m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Crumble the ground beef into a deep skillet or large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the onions and green pepper. Cook and stir until beef is evenly browned. Drain the grease.
- Add the rice and water to the pan, and season with Creole seasoning, pepper, and garlic powder. Bring to a boil, then cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer for 30 minutes, until the water is absorbed. About halfway through cooking the rice, stir in the black-eyed peas.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 387.6 calories, Carbohydrate 48.7 g, Cholesterol 49.6 mg, Fat 10.4 g, Fiber 6.2 g, Protein 24.1 g, SaturatedFat 3.9 g, Sodium 720.7 mg, Sugar 1.7 g
BLACK EYED PEAS WITH RICE
This is a nice southern dish that you can use as a side dish or as main course. Smoked sausage or bacon can be used in place of the hamhocks if you so desire. Serve the beans and meat over rice. This is known as Southern Caviar and is eaten on New Year's Day. The black-eyed peas represent luck and the cabbage represents money. You can use fresh, frozen, or canned black-eyed peas in place of the dried beans, which shortens the cooking time for a quicker version of this recipe.
Provided by southern chef in lo
Categories Pork
Time 3h
Yield 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Wash the peas; place in large pot. Cover with water. Bring to boil. Once it reaches a boil, remove from heat, cover and let sit for 1 hour. After the 1 hour is up, drain the peas and set aside.
- Add oil to pot; sauté the ham hock, onion, and celery until tender.
- Add the garlic and sauté 2 minutes more.
- Add peas cover with water about 1 to 11/2 inch over peas.
- Add pepper, parsley, and about 1 teaspoon of salt to start with.
- Bring to boil; stir, reduce heat and simmer about 2 hours, or until peas are tender. Keep checking every once in a while to see if more water is needed, and taste to see if more salt is needed.
- Stir occasionally.
- Water will turn into a gravy; serve over rice.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 81.8, Fat 3.7, SaturatedFat 0.6, Sodium 174.8, Carbohydrate 9.6, Fiber 2.3, Sugar 0.7, Protein 3
BLACK-EYED PEAS AND RICE
In her cookbook, "Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking," Toni Tipton-Martin writes about the Carolina lowcountry tradition of the dish Hoppin' John, as recorded in the "Penn School & Sea Islands Heritage Cookbook." The dish was described as brown field peas cooked with rice to be eaten for good luck throughout the year. In African American communities, the tradition of eating rice and cowpeas dates to a celebration on Dec. 31, 1862, Freedom's Eve. On that day, enslaved Africans congregated in churches in the south, eager to hear the news that the Emancipation Proclamation had set them free. The tradition of eating peas and rice for the new year is now deeply held across cultures throughout the United States and ties to centuries-old folklore that might just lead to better health, prosperity and maybe, just maybe, a bit more luck.
Provided by Kayla Stewart
Categories dinner, beans, main course, side dish
Time 1h45m
Yield 8 servings
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Soak the black-eyed peas in cold water overnight, then drain when ready to cook.
- In a large saucepan, cook the salt pork over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until crisp and the fat is rendered, about 6 minutes. Add the onion and garlic and cook until just translucent, about 3 minutes. Stir in the chicken stock, drained black-eyed peas, ham, red-pepper flakes, 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon black pepper. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat, cover, and simmer over medium-low heat, skimming any foam that rises to the surface, until tender, about 1 hour.
- Taste and season with more salt as desired. Stir in the rice. Cover and return the pot to a simmer over high heat. Reduce the heat to maintain a gentle simmer, cover and cook until the rice is tender, about 20 minutes longer. Remove from the heat and let stand, covered, 5 minutes, then serve.
BLACK-EYED PEAS AND RICE
Steps:
- Combine water, say sauce, salt garlic powder, curry powder and cooked peas. Add rice by pouring it into the center of the pot until it reaches the top of the water line-NO MORE. Stir well and cover. Continue cooking on a medium to low flame until rice is fluffy and cooked through.
LUCKY BLACK EYED PEAS WITH RICE & BACON
A light, easy dish for when you're ready to take a break from heavy meals. This recipe is supposed to serve 6 but it didn't go that far at MY table. No reason to stop at half the bell pepper - it could have used more. Also that "dash" of cayenne should be increased by quite a bit!
Provided by tgobbi
Categories Beans
Time 35m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Cook bacon in large, heavy skillet over medium-high heat until crispy.
- Drain off all but 1 T of the drippings.
- Add onion; cook, stirring, until lightly browned, 5 minutes.
- Stir in red pepper and garlic; cook, stirring, 1 minute.
- Add rice; cook, stirring, until lightly colored, about 3 minutes.
- Stir in chicken broth, peas, salt, thymeand peppers; heat to a boil.
- Cover; reduce heat.
- Cook until rice is tender, about 10 minutes.
- Stir in parsley.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 334.5, Fat 10.8, SaturatedFat 3.4, Cholesterol 12.8, Sodium 804.8, Carbohydrate 46.9, Fiber 6.4, Sugar 1.4, Protein 13.4
BLACK-EYED PEAS, RICE, AND KIELBASA
Black-eyed peas, rice, and kielbasa are a match made in heaven, or at my mother-in-law's in Mississippi. She has not made this one time without everyone wanting the recipe. I'm so glad she is willing to share it. This is a guaranteed hit and it is so easy!
Provided by LEIGHGEE
Time 1h10m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Place butter in the bottom of a 9x13-inch baking dish and pour rice over top.
- Mix black-eyed peas, sausage, beef broth, mushrooms, and water together in a bowl; pour over rice.
- Bake, uncovered, in the preheated oven until sausage is browned and rice is tender, about 1 hour.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 940.6 calories, Carbohydrate 71 g, Cholesterol 142.1 mg, Fat 59.2 g, Fiber 8.4 g, Protein 29.3 g, SaturatedFat 31.3 g, Sodium 2182 mg, Sugar 2.9 g
HOPPIN' JOHN -- RICE AND BLACK-EYED PEAS
I have heard all my life that one should eat black eyed peas on New Year's Day for good luck throughout the new year. It wasn't until I was in my early twenties that my father changed the dish from black eyed peas to Hoppin' John as our traditional New Year's Day good luck meal. It's simple, po' foke's food, and I love it any time of the year. In the directions, I will include substitutions to make this dish vegetarian/vegan. Some history of the dish can be found here --http://members.aol.com/RSRICHMOND/hoppingjohn.html -- It would seem most people cook the rice and peas seperately, and then combine the two to serve. That's how my dad does it. I wanted to cook the flavor of the black eyed peas into the rice. So, this recipe strays a little from the norm, in that I cook the rice with the peas already in the pan.
Provided by ATM 67
Categories One Dish Meal
Time 40m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- In a 4 qt or pan brown bacon and cook onion in bacon grease until the onion is transparent. ** For vegan, omit bacon and use approximately 1/4 cup of vegetable oil to cook onion.
- Add uncooked rice, black eyed peas (with juice) and water to your bacon onion mixture. Mix well. **For vegan add liquid smoke at this point to replace the smoke flavor that would have been added by the bacon.
- Bring to a boil and then reduce heat to medium.
- When the tops of the bursting bubbles of boiling water are all of the liquid that can be seen above the rice, remove the pan from the heat and cover.
- Wait at least twenty minutes, WITHOUT PEEKING!
- Don't do it. You'll loose precious heat and steam.
- Serve with bread of your choice, or with the veggies of your choice and plenty of hot sauce. Of course, the variety of hot sauce you choose will depend on your tolerance for heat. If you would like, this could be served as a side dish, as well.
BLACK-EYED PEA STEW WITH RICE
This is a variation of Hopping John. It's usually a New Years Day item around our house, as the Black-eyed peas, are for good luck.And it also contains rice, which is for abundance, and pork, which is for the future.
Provided by KittyKitty
Categories Stew
Time 1h52m
Yield 10 cups
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Saute pork in 1 tablespoon hot oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat 8-10 minutes. Remove pork and set aside.
- Add remaining 1 tablespoon oil to Dutch oven. Sauté onion and next 4 ingredients in hot oil 5 minutes. Stir in oregano and thyme, cook, stirring often, 2 minutes.
- Add peas, broth and bay leaf, bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat, simmer stirring occasionally 45 minutes.
- Stir in tomatoes, simmer, stirring occasionally, 20 minutes. Stir in reserved pork, salt and next 3 ingredients. Remove and discard bay leaf. Serve over rice.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 319.5, Fat 10.6, SaturatedFat 3, Cholesterol 60.8, Sodium 1087.8, Carbohydrate 26.9, Fiber 6.7, Sugar 1.9, Protein 29.4
Tips:
- Soak the black-eyed peas overnight: This will help to reduce the cooking time and make the peas more tender.
- Use a variety of vegetables: This will add flavor and nutrients to the dish. Some good options include onion, garlic, celery, carrots, and bell peppers.
- Season the dish well: Black-eyed peas have a mild flavor, so it's important to season them well. Some good options include salt, pepper, cumin, chili powder, and paprika.
- Cook the dish until the peas are tender: This will usually take about 45 minutes to an hour. You can check the peas by tasting them. They should be soft and slightly chewy.
- Serve the dish with your favorite sides: Some good options include rice, cornbread, or salad.
Conclusion:
Black-eyed peas and rice is a delicious and nutritious dish that is perfect for a weeknight meal. It is easy to make and can be tailored to your own taste preferences. With a few simple ingredients, you can create a flavorful and satisfying meal that the whole family will enjoy.
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