Black eye peas and rice recipes

A blend of rice, black-eyed peas, ham and seasoning, Hoppin’ John is a delicious side dish and the best way to ring in the New Year.

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This black eyed peas & rice is a great vegan dish to prepare for Old Years, throw in your leftover hambone in this dish for great flavor!

The ultimate good luck dish, Black-Eyed Peas and Rice brings prosperity while tasting savory and delicious! It’s a vegetarian alternative to a classic Hoppin’ John recipe that still tastes amazing next to collard greens and cornbread.

In her cookbook, “Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking,” Toni Tipton-Martin writes about the Carolina lowcountry tradition of the dish Hoppin’ John, as recorded in the “Penn School & Sea Islands Heritage Cookbook.” The dish was described as brown field peas cooked with rice to be eaten for good luck throughout the year. In African American communities, the tradition of eating rice and cowpeas dates to a celebration on Dec. 31, 1862, Freedom’s Eve. On that day…

This black-eyed peas recipe is comfort food at its best! A soul food staple, they are cooked with bacon and sausage until perfect and creamy.

Every New Year's Eve my family would make a big pot of Guyanese-style black-eyed peas cook-up rice. Cook-up is a one-pot rice dish consisting of some type of meat, peas and rice and traditionally simmered in fresh coconut milk. The ingredients are added to a single pot and cooked down to thick and hearty satiating meal. These type of one pot dishes were meant to feed a lot of mouths and use up whatever is available therefore anything is fair game in terms of ingredients.

This one-pot recipe with chicken, black eyed peas, and rice is a hearty meal on the healthy side. You’ll love the flavor, ease, and wholesomeness of this dish!

Ring in the New Year by eating a big bowl of black eyed peas for good luck! This simple Hoppin' John recipe comes together quickly by using canned black eyed peas, bacon, onion, garlic, chicken bouillon and herbs. It is full of flavor and it makes a delicious main dish served over white rice or it

New Years Even Black Eyed Peas are the perfect after holiday no- cooking and no-baking dish! Using up your left over ham or turkey, this "hoppin john" recipe is a dump and go! Full of delicious Southern flavors like deep spices and garlic, you can serve flavorful black eyed peas right over rice or with corn bread. Highly popular at New Years eve as good luck!