My Southern Black Eyed Peas with Collard Greens. Black-Eyed Peas with Collard Greens Time to gather round the table, y'all! This dish has special meaning on New Year's Day, when Southerners eat greens for future wealth and black-eyed peas for prosperity. —Athena Russell, Greenville, South Carolina 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.
You can have My Southern Black Eyed Peas with Collard Greens using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of My Southern Black Eyed Peas with Collard Greens
- It’s 14 oz of cooked organic black eyed peas.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of olive oil.
- It’s 4 cloves of galric minced.
- Prepare 1 of medium yellow onion, chopped.
- Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of brown sugar.
- It’s 1 of bay leaf.
- You need 1 tbsp of red wine vinegar.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of water.
- It’s 2 strips of applewood smoked bacon or 1 tbsp olive oil for vegan.
- Prepare 1 of large bunch collard greens chopped into strips (about 5 cups.).
Next, mix the cooked bacon and veggies with canned black eyed peas, broth, thyme and rosemary. Once the black eyed peas are simmering, add the collard greens. Place the black-eyed peas in a large saucepan, cover with water by two inches, bring to a boil and then drain. Combine with half the onion and one of the garlic cloves in the saucepan.
My Southern Black Eyed Peas with Collard Greens step by step
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..
Black-eyed peas and collard greens are a New Year's Day staple in the American South, where the peas represent coins and the greens represent paper money. As the saying goes, "Eat poor on New Year's, and eat fat the rest of the year." This marriage of two Southern classics—collard greens and black-eyed peas—is not only delicious, but super-smart: Bobby Flay uses canned chipotles in adobo to give the dish a smoky flavor. 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. Instant Pot Collard Greens With Black Eyed Peas Instant pot collard greens is an easy way to make collard greens fast and with a lot of flavor.
