My Family Recipes: Black-eyed peas

How I wish I'd paid more attention to my mom when she tried to enlist our help in preparing certain dishes. So once grown, I had to re-create those dishes as best I could from memory and design my own recipes.

Here's my recipe for Black-eyed peas I usually cook on holidays, but definitely on New Year's Day if my health permits.

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@justclickindiva

Quick and Easy Southern Black-eyed peas

INGREDIENTS:

2 (12 oz.) bags frozen black eyed peas
I don’t like the canned ones. If I can’t get them fresh, then I just grab a bag of frozen.

Veggies & Seasonings
Chopped
1 clove garlic
1 each green, red & yellow bell peppers
(or if you’re in a hurry, or don’t feel like a chopping day, just pick up 1 bag of frozen blended peppers). If frozen, don’t even bother chopping.
Then again, if you’re the perfect cook who likes to plan ahead, then purchase organic fresh veggies, chop, and freeze.

Salt & Pepper to taste
Baking Soda

Meat, if desired
I like left-over ham, rotisserie chicken, sausage (chopped). They give the peas a wonderful richness and flavor. Whatever you like will taste good and season the peas further.
Whenever I cook chicken, sausage, or ham, I always save some and freeze it as flavoring for any type of beans.
That’s why you don’t want to add a lot of salt.

DIRECTIONS
Wash Black-eyed peas thoroughly in colander.
Set aside.

Saute all veggies and seasonings (EXCEPT Baking Soda)

Add Black-eyed peas with 6 cups of water.
Add Salt and Pepper to taste.
Add meat (if desired) and cover.
Cook for about 15 minutes, then add 1 tsp. Baking soda. If you miss this step, don’t be mad at me!

Continue cooking for 1 hr. 15 min. on medium heat (gentle boil). If you like firm peas, please don’t continually stir them. Only stir once every 30 minutes.

Finished dish. You see how all the seasonings have cooked down, translucent into the sauce. All you have left is the amazing flavor. It's a subtle sweet flavor, with no sweets.

The Black-eyed peas turned from a beautiful black and white color to a lovely brown. And great tasting.

Thanks for visting my easy Black-eyed peas recipe.

Thanks,
@justclickindiva

Happy rest of the week everyone with whatever your endeavors.

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