Black Eyed Peas New Year S Eve
A delicious new year s eve recipe to bring you luck in the new year.
Black eyed peas new year s eve. Black eyed peas are cooked with rice pork such as chopped pork or ham hog jowls or hambones fatback or bacon and seasonings. As a part of the jewish holiday rosh hashanah the jewish new year. Or the peas can be part of a soup.
Dish called hoppin john for new year s eve. Eating black eyed peas on new year s day has been considered good luck for at least 1 500 years. A real country ham is quite salty but the flavor and seasoning is just right for this homey dish.
Dish called hoppin john for new year s eve. I sometimes just use the ham bone and some of the surrounding meat from the traditional christmas ham that i make each year but the ham hocks also add. See in the new year with a hearty bowl of black eyed peas cooked with garlic onion tomatoes and diced country ham.
Hoppin john although served throughout the year as well hoppin john is one of the most traditional new year s eve and new year s day dishes in the south. Black eyed peas are served with rice in the traditional southern u s. In italy lentils mix with pork for.
But the tradition of eating black eyed peas with rice is african in origin and spread throughout the south especially in the carolinas in the form of pilaus or rice dishes simmered for a long time. Black eyed peas were also given to enslaved people as were most other traditional southern new year s foods and evolved through the years to be considered soul food one variation of the superstition says that black eyed peas were all the enslaved people in the south had to celebrate with on the first day of january 1863. Or the peas can be part of a soup.
In italy lentils mix with pork for. According to france 24 a paris based news network the galette des rois or kings cake is traditionally eaten on. There s evidence that people ate black eyed peas for luck as early as 500 a d.