Slow Cooked Black Eyed Peas
This sounds really good, I like beans! This is a recipe that is open to tailoring as to your taste. I look forward to making this. Link to the shortcut is listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Equipment
- Slow Cooker
Ingredients
- 2 cups dry black-eyed peas, rinsed
- 225 grams sliced bacon, diced, or cubed chicken, see Step 1, (8 oz)
- 1 large onion, diced
- 1 green bell pepper, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 4 cups chicken stock, fresh or from powder
- 2 large tomatoes, or about 4-5 plum tomatoes, diced
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 2 teaspoons Cajun spice mix, Shortcut
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 1-3 dashes hot sauce
Instructions
- Add olive oil to a heavy bottom pan and set over medium-high heat. Add the bacon or chicken, onion, bell pepper, and garlic, then fry for about 3 minutes, mixing often until the onion begins to brown and the bacon renders its fat. Transfer to your slow cooker. NOTE: If using minced chicken, use standard sausage seasoning, form into meatballs and cook those.
- Add the black eyed peas, broth, tomatoes, oregano, Cajun seasoning, and black pepper. Cook on High setting for 5 hours or Low setting for 8 hours, until the black eyed peas are soft.
Notes
The beans will run about 65 Baht/kilo, the bacon about 170 Baht for a 250 gram package, chicken would be much less. For 8 servings this is about 85 cents per serving (or less using chicken), very easy for a side dish.
Shortcut: Cajun Seasoning Mix.
Another thing I’ve done that turned out nice was make ground chicken meatballs to add to the black-eyed peas stew/soup. For chicken meatballs that taste like sausage, add fennel seeds, rosemary, thyme, cumin, paprika, oregano, salt, and black or white pepper. Hand mix it into the ground chicken, form into balls or small patties and slow fry.
Excellent, recipe reflects that great tip! Always good to hear input from users of the site.
I make a similar dish with cubed chicken. I slow fry the chicken first on fairly low heat, then brown some diced onions and bell peppers before adding everything to the mix.
Excellent point, I updated the recipe to reflect that.