New Year S Food Cabbage Black Eyed Peas
A great easy way to ring in the new year.
New year s food cabbage black eyed peas. Add one onion bell pepper and celery to beef just before browned and saute for about five minutes. Add both cans of black eyed peas with juices. Eating black eyed peas is considered good luck and greens or cabbage represent money and prosperity.
Little beans yes black eyed peas are actually beans are considered lucky. You ve been serving champagne all wrong here s how to do it right. Mix in the napa cabbage.
Without the black eyed pea which journeyed from africa to the new world it just isn t new year s at least not a lucky one two physical properties of dried black eyed peas much more likely available in the depths of winter than freshly shelled ones symbolize good things to come. Bring the mixture to a boil then reduce heat to low and cook uncovered for 2 hours. Its supposed to bring you luck in the year to come.
Mix in worcestershire sauce garlic powder salt and pepper. I personally didn t care for cooked cabbage until i came up with this recipe. So every new years my family sticks to tradition and enjoys black eyed peas cabbage and cornbread.
Serving black eyed peas and cabbage on new year s day is a southern tradition to ensure luck and wealth for the coming year. 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. Whether it s black eyed peas on a new year s day brunch or cabbage on new year s eve adding these new year s good luck foods to your party plans are a delicious way to say see ya to the old year and hello to a lucky new year.
It is a new orleans tradition to eat black eyed peas and cabbage on new years day. Reduce heat and simmer for 30 45 minutes. Photo by paula burch celentano black eyed peas and cabbage are traditional fare for new year s day in louisiana.