Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, my southern black eyed peas with collard greens. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Collard greens are mild yet flavorful. They don't have the bitter tendencies of some other greens (I'm thinking about mustard greens and turnip greens). I used canned black eyed peas in this recipe, but you can certainly start out with dry peas if you'd like.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook my southern black eyed peas with collard greens using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make My Southern Black Eyed Peas with Collard Greens:
- Prepare 14 oz cooked organic black eyed peas
- Prepare 1 tbsp olive oil
- Get 4 cloves galric minced
- Get 1 medium yellow onion, chopped
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 tbsp brown sugar
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Prepare 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
- Get 1/2 cup water
- Get 2 strips applewood smoked bacon or 1 tbsp olive oil for vegan
- Get 1 large bunch collard greens chopped into strips (about 5 cups.)
But this recipe actually is inspired by a Greek dish that combines black-eyed peas with wild greens. Featured in: Collard Greens: Rethinking A Southern Classic. The Best Southern Collard Greens Recipe: The best authentic southern collard greens are cooked with a savory meat, and something to sweeten it up. They are often slow cooked however, in this instant pot collard greens recipe with black eyed peas the ingredients I use include: Canned Black Eyed Peas - to add protein and to make the dish more.
Steps to make My Southern Black Eyed Peas with Collard Greens:
- In a large pot with a lid, heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil over medium heat. Add the garlic, salt and bay leaf and stir for 3 minutes. Take bay leaf out.
- Add the chopped collard greens, vinegar and water and stir. It's possible that all of your greens wont fit in the pot, so add a few handfuls at a time as they wilt.
- Then add the peas. Cover and simmer for about 30 minutes, checking occasionally and adding more water as necessary.
- In a separate pan, cook the bacon over medium high heat until crispy. Remove the bacon and reserve for another use and add the onions to the pan. (I used bacon bits this time.) Came out delicious.
- Cook the onions in the bacon grease for about 5 minutes or until just translucent. If you used bacon bits just throw the bacon bits and onion in the pot with the greens.
- When the greens are cooked to your liking add the brown sugar, stir until combined and serve.
It's a Southern tradition to eat black-eyed peas and collard greens on New Year's Day for good luck in the new year. And more specifically, the superstition is that eating collard greens on New Year's Day will bring you dollar bills and eating black-eyed peas will bring you cents throughout the upcoming year. Why Should You Eat Black Eyed Peas and Collard Greens on New Year's Day? Eating black eyed peas on New Year's Day is a Southern tradition that is thought to bring forth good luck. D. as a part of the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
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