Beneath its world-renowned jerked meats and festive seafood dishes lies the beating heart of Jamaican cuisine: stew peas. To replicate this homey Jamaican stew using ingredients easily found in American supermarkets, we made some simple substitutions. We started by swapping in dried small red beans for the Jamaican dried red peas, which can be difficult to source in the United States. Instead of salted pig tails or salted beef, we used smoked ham hocks, which, though not traditional, was not…
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