Black Eyed Peas With Rice Recipes

HOPPIN' JOHN -- RICE AND BLACK-EYED PEAS

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 PEAS AND RICE

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.

BLACK EYED PEAS WITH RICE

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.

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

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.

CREOLE BLACK-EYED PEAS AND RICE

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.

DIRTY RICE WITH BLACK-EYED PEAS

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir turkey Italian sausage in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer to a bowl.
• Heat the same pan over medium-high heat and brown kielbasa slices, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer to the same bowl with Italian sausage.
• Heat the drippings over medium-high heat in the same pan. Add onion, celery, and bell pepper; saute for 3 to 4 minutes. Add garlic and continue to saute until onion is tender, 2 to 3 minutes more.
• Transfer sausages and vegetable mixture to a large pot. Add water, black-eyed peas, bouillon, cayenne, chili powder, oregano, basil, pepper, and bay leaves. Bring to a boil. Add rice and return to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer until rice is tender, about 25 minutes. Stir in green onions.

BLACK-EYED PEAS AND RICE

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, RICE, AND KIELBASA

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.

BLACK EYED PEAS W/RICE

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a large skillet until crisp. Remove bacon reserving drippings in skillet. Crumble bacon & set aside.
• Saute onion in drippings until tender. Drain the onion & discard the drippings. Return the onion to skillet. Add drained peas & last 7 ingredients.
• Cover & cook over low heat 8 to 10 minutes. Put into serving dish & sprinkle crumbled bacon over top.
• Serve.

CREOLE BLACK-EYED PEAS AND RICE

Steps:

• Rinse black-eyed peas and place in a large pot. Add 2 cups of water and bring to a boil. Reduce to a medium heat and simmer for 2 minutes. Cover and remove from heat. Let stand 1 hour. Drain and rinse peas.
• Return peas to pot and add a few dashes of salt. Add 1½ cups of water, cover, and simmer on medium heat for 35 minutes.
• Chop onions and peppers and mince garlic. Slice sausage in small pieces. While beans are simmering, melt a tbsp of butter in a pan on medium heat. Add onions, peppers, sausage and garlic and cook about 10 minutes.
• Stir in mixture into the black-eyed pea pot. Add parsley, tomato sauce, Worcestershire sauce, pepper, oregano, thyme, and hot sauce.
• Bring mixture to a boil, reduce to medium-low, and cook 45 minutes. Serve with white rice.