My Southern Black Eyed Peas with Collard Greens
My Southern Black Eyed Peas with Collard Greens

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have my southern black eyed peas with collard greens using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make My Southern Black Eyed Peas with Collard Greens:
  1. Make ready 14 oz cooked organic black eyed peas
  2. Get 1 tbsp olive oil
  3. Get 4 cloves galric minced
  4. Get 1 medium yellow onion, chopped
  5. Take 1 tsp salt
  6. Get 1 tbsp brown sugar
  7. Take 1 bay leaf
  8. Get 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
  9. Get 1/2 cup water
  10. Prepare 2 strips applewood smoked bacon or 1 tbsp olive oil for vegan
  11. Get 1 large bunch collard greens chopped into strips (about 5 cups.)

There are a few things we take pretty seriously down here in the South. 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. Learn how to make tried and trie southern black eyed peas. Full of flavor, easy to make.

Instructions to make My Southern Black Eyed Peas with Collard Greens:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Then add the peas. Cover and simmer for about 30 minutes, checking occasionally and adding more water as necessary.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. When the greens are cooked to your liking add the brown sugar, stir until combined and serve.

Seasoned with broth, smoked meat, garlic, onions, and spices. Nothing says Happy New Years better than a pot of soulful black-eyed eyed peas & soul food collard greens! This classic southern collard greens recipe is packed solid with bright greens and protein-rich black-eyed peas. This dish is a southern favorite Black-eyed peas are smaller than other beans you might be accustomed to like black beans, pinto beans or cannellini beans and pair nicely with..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. Using a slow cooker lets you go about your daily business while the food simmers away.

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