Free Recipe New Year s Day Black-Eyed Peas

Recipe Type: H Recipes

Recipe Preparation: boil

Cooking Ingredients for New Year s Day Black-Eyed Peas Recipe

2 lb Dried black-eyed peas
1/2 Slab of lean bacon*; cut
-into 1/4 cubes
1 Green or red pepper; finely
-chopped
1/2 c Onion; finely chopped
1/2 c Celery; finely chopped
2 ts Red wine vinegar
3-1/2 c Chicken or turkey stock
Salt; to taste
Freshly ground black pepper;
-to taste
2 Dried hot red peppers;
-crumbled
6 c Water; (approx) (up to 7)

New Year s Day Black-Eyed Peas Preparation

*(about 2 cups) Rinse the peas and drain. Put the bacon in a heavy kettle and cook stirring until rendered of fat and browned. Add the chopped sweet pepper, onion, and celery, and cook, stirring until wilted. Add peas, vinegar, stock, salt, pepper, and dried hot peppers. Bring to a boil. Cover closely and let simmer about 1 hour stirring occasionally from the bottom. Check peas, and if necessary, add more water. Continue cooking 30 minutes. (Total cooking time is 2-1/2 hours or longer). Recipe by: Craig Claiborne”s Southern Cooking, 1987, p. 188 Volume 01 Number 422 by Lou Parris <lbparris@earthlink.net> on Dec 30, 1997

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Recipe Serves: 16

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