New Year's Twenty-Four Hours Dark Eyed Peas Recipe

Honor Southern tradition past times enjoying this New Year's Day Black Eyed Peas recipe, along amongst collards together with pork. It may but convey yous luck together with adept fortune for the upcoming year!

In the South, the traditional New Year's Day repast consists of collard greens, to a greater extent than or less cast of pork, together with black-eyed peas. According to lore, a New Year's repast of these 3 things brings you luck together with adept fortune for the upcoming year.

In our menage nosotros accolade this Southern tradition, including this New Year's Day Black Eyed Peas recipe inwards our New Year's meal.

But but precisely why does New Year's tradition focus on these 3 foods every bit harbingers of adept fortune?

According to legend, collards together with black-eyed peas correspond money the collard greens important dollar bills together with the peas, coins. Eating these on New Year's 24-hour interval ensures wealth together with luck.

Some cast of pork is traditional for New Year's Day according to pressure cooker collards and I brand a large pot of this New Year's Day dark eyed peas recipe ... including adept ol' fatty dorsum together with pig jowl bacon to flavor both.

Hey, we've got to acquire the traditional pork into the New Year's Day meal, right?

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 give-and-take of caution when seasoning your New Year's Day dark eyed peas recipe amongst fatty dorsum ... a lesson I learned the difficult means ...

Rinse your fatback. And if it's actually salty on the surface, soak it inwards cool H2O for close xv minutes to depict out to a greater extent than or less of the salt. Believe me, your gustation buds volition give thank yous you.

Salt inwards nutrient to flavor it = yummy. Way besides much tabular array salt inwards nutrient to over flavor it = non good. Not adept at all.

See all the grains of tabular array salt on the surface of the strips of fatback inwards the photograph below?

Well, I made a large cooking error. And threw those fatback strips but every bit they were ... unrinsed ... into my pot of New Year's Day dark eyed peas.

Unfortunately, because of all that salt, this rendered them pretty much inedible.

So if yous come across all that salt? Rinse. Or soak. For sure.

When preparing this New Year's Day dark eyed peas recipe, yous may retrieve it's besides soupy when everything is commencement seat inwards the pot ... looking close similar this ...

But every bit the dark eyed peas simmer, the liquid cooks downwardly ... looking close similar this at the terminate of the cooking fourth dimension ...

And yielding the perfect bowl of New Year's Day dark eyed peas, all fix to help convey luck together with adept fortune for the upcoming year.

New Year's Day Black-Eyed Peas Recipe

Source: No existent source ... this is but the means I've learned to brand 'em!
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

2 (16 oz.) packages frozen black-eyed peas, thawed
1 large red onion, diced
3 or 4 carrots, peeled together with diced
1 clove garlic, minced
2 (3-inch) hunks fatback, rinsed {or close 1/4 lb. pig jowl, or two strips regular bacon}*
2 (14.5 oz.) cans chicken broth
1/4 c. dried parsley
1 tsp. black pepper
1 T. fresh lemon juice {1/2 of a lemon}
1/2 tsp. sugar
2 T. olive oil

Directions

Heat olive crude oil inwards a Dutch oven or large pot over medium heat. Add onion, garlic, carrots, together with fatty back; saute until veggies are soft, close v to 8 minutes.
Add remaining ingredients together with convey to a boil. Reduce oestrus together with simmer, uncovered, for two hours.
Taste. Add a chip to a greater extent than dark pepper or a impact of salt, if needed. Most likely, the fatty dorsum volition add together plenty seasoning together with tabular array salt won't endure needed ... but adapt seasoning every bit needed to your liking.

*If your fatback is super salty ... every bit in, yous tin come across together with experience the tabular array salt crystals on the surface, endure certain to rinse the fatback. You may also desire to soak it inwards mutual coldness H2O for close xv to xx minutes to take away to a greater extent than or less of the salt. If yous role pig jowl or bacon, cutting it into large pieces.

Enjoy!

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