Beautiful Black Eyed Peas with Smoked Turkey Leg
Our family always eats black eyed peas for New Year’s Day dinner. Because we don’t eat pork, we use a smoked turkey leg. It is a WONDERFUL substitution.
Ingredients
Method
- Sort through the peas. Do this. Don’t skip this step. I find a rock in almost every bag of dried beans.
- Rinse the peas in a colander. Put in a bowl or a pan, and for every pound of dried beans, cover with 8 cups of water. Let soak overnight or at least 6 hours.
- If you can’t do it overnight, rinse the peas and put them in a pan. Cover with 8 cups of water. Bring to a boil. Turn off the heat, put the lid on the pan and let it sit for at least an hour. Drain the peas in the colander, rinse them, and cover them with hot water and continue with the directions.
- Chop the onion.
- In a large pot, cover the peas with water, with at least an inch more water above them. Add the turkey leg and onion to the pot.
- Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and cover the pan. Simmer for 45 minutes.
- Uncover and cook until desired tenderness. Add the salt.
- Scrape the meat off of the leg bone and mix in with the peas.
Nutrition
Notes
Serves 6 to 8.
Do not add the salt until the peas are done cooking.
Low in saturated fat, very high in dietary fiber, and high in iron.
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