How To Cook Black-Eyed Peas – Southern Black-Eyed Peas Recipe

Traditional black-eyed peas recipe, flavored with salt pork, onions, and jalapenos. Eat them on January 1 for good luck all year! HILAH COOKING: New Episodes Every Tuesday and Thursday! Subscribe on YouTube (never miss a video!) www.youtube.com Facebook: facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com Check out over 100 video recipes at hilahcooking.com Hilah Cooking is a short-form, educational web series focused on making cooking FUN! We release two episodes every week. Our focus is on simple, low-cost recipes with a Texas flair. Everything is made from scratch, people! You will not see any packets of taco seasoning mix or gravy powder up in here. If you are going to learn how to cook, you are going to learn it for real! But I promise it will be fun and easy. Around these parts, meaning the Southern states of the United States, black-eyed peas have got to be eaten on New Year’s Day to ensure prosperity and fortune. I’m pretty sure it’s superstition, since by now I should be utterly swimming in gold coins and heating my personal blimp with a fireplace that runs exclusively on 100-dollar-bills. But…here I am instead typing on a 6-year-old laptop with a busted mousepad and wearing a blanket because I can’t afford to run the GD heater. Black eyed peas Ingredients 1 lb frozen blackeyed peas 4 oz (1 lb) salt pork or bacon, diced 1-2 jalapenos, minced 1 small tomato, diced (about 1/2 c) How To Cook Black-Eyed Peas Fry the salt pork or bacon in a pot for about 4 minutes until some of the …