How do you make your New Year's black-eyed peas?

[BainsBane]

I cook mine from dry. Then I cook bacon and red onion, and add the peas. I serve it over raw spinach and add vinegar.

[KT2000]

1. From dry because fresh are not available

Saute celery, onion, and garlic. Throw in the peas after they soaked overnight. Cover with water and chicken broth. Put in the ham shank and simmer for a couple hours. Green salad on the side so that gets mixed up with the brans. This year there was rice too.

[BainsBane]

4. Sounds great!

[csziggy]

2. I make Hopping John rather than just black eyed peas

My husband decided he wanted to make it from scratch this year - but he knows nothing about cooking. So he got dried black eyed peas and started soaking them on Tuesday. So Wednesday morning I drained them and put them in the refrigerator. Of course, he read on the bag to soak them, but then threw away the bag without reading the whole recipe for cooking them.

Wednesday after noon, we baked the pound of bacon he bought with the peas, chopped up an onion and some garlic, and spread them out on the cookies sheet he baked the bacon on, baked the onion until it just started to caramelize, then mixed in the pre-cut vegetables (tomato, bell, pepper and onion) and let them cook a bit.

We cooked the black eyed peas in chicken and turkey stock, cooked short and long grain brown rice separately, then mixed the cut up bacon, vegetable mix, rice and peas together to make our Hopping John. Yesterday we had some ham with the Hopping John since I can never remember if you're supposed to have it New Year's Eve or on New Year's.

It doesn't matter, we're having it twice and we have enough to have it several times over the year, too!

[BainsBane]

3. I love Hoppin John

Sounds great!

[ariadne0614]

5. I used this Epicurious recipe.

https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/new-years-day-black-eyed-peas

[hlthe2b]

6. Very garlicky. In the Instant Pot so I don't pre-soak the beans.

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with onion, parsley, chicken stock, a tiny bit of chili pepper, a little bit of diced ham and some cooked turkey bacon. If I have some brown rice, I sometimes eat it over rice, but I didn't this year.

Just know that all that garlic smells up the kitchen/house for quite a while afterward.

[soothsayer]

7. I just nuke the contents of the can and eat them plain

Use a tortilla chip as a scoop and it’s even better. I had to sub potato chips this year and it was fine.

If I weren’t lazy I’d make hoppin John, or shop early enough to find it in the store.

[Dave in VA]

8. Instant Pot

1 pound of dried packaged black eyed peas
2 cups of chicken stock or broth
seasoning meat / usually a ham hock or ham chips
1 packet of ham seasoning (used to use Goya, but now looking for alternative)
1 table spoon of vegetable oil

Throw all this in the instant pot
add water if the chicken stock does not cover the peas by at least 2 inches
set on manual for 40 minutes
quick release the pressure as soon as the timer alarms

Enjoy!



edit: remember to rinse the peas and remove any "unusual" items before putting in instant pot.

[Bobstandard]

9. Our island version: sashimi with wasabi

New Years traditions vary. We who love raw fish on that day think those of you who indulge in the black eyed peas are just as odd as you think us. I remember my family being invited to the home of folks who served us black eyed peas. “It’s an acquired taste,” my mom whispered to us. Since then I have acquired the taste, I admit. And it’s the best when served to you by someone making their mom’s or grandmas recipe. I don’t know if many black eyed pea people have ever developed a taste for sashimi, but so what?

[BainsBane]

10. I like sashimi

and I'd prefer to eat it over black-eyed peas, but it was New Year's and the peas are obligatory.

Do you not like beans? They are like most any bean--the flavor comes from what you do with them.

[yellowdogintexas]

11. I also cook from dry.

I mistakenly thought I had a container of black eyed peas; it turned out to be 15 bean soup mix which happens to contain blackeyed peas.

I cooked them with a smoked turkey leg, onions, garlic, a can of Ro-Tel and served with lovely rice and cornbread.

[MagickMuffin]

12. I use frozen black eye peas

However, I love purple hull with snaps. But we can no longer find them with the snaps. Which irritates me because I love the snaps. Growing up on my little suburban farm, we grew the purple hull peas and they are delicious. Creamy texture.

The peas this year were regular field peas, which isn't my favorite. I added onion, garlic, bell pepper, tomatoes.

I don't care for the dry peas.

Hubby made greens and cornbread.

[yewberry]

13. This year: Black-eyed pea and corn fritters.

Big pile of red chard sautéed with sweet onions on the side.

[dem in texas]

14. Cook Dry Black-Eyed Peas with Ham-hocks

Usually cook in my crock-pot on low, over-night; adding a ham-hock and a few cloves of garlic.

Next day, remove ham-hocks, take off the ham meat. chop and add to the peas. Remove the garlic cloves, add some chopped green onion, salt and pepper to taste, serve with white rice and Louisiana hot sauce.

To make the dish part of a Southern feast, add some mashed sweet potatoes, fresh cooked collard greens, pan fried chicken and buttermilk cornbread baked in an iron skillet.