Black Eyed Pea Soup (My version of Hoppin' John's)

Name: Black Eyed Pea Soup (My version of Hoppin' John's)
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ○ 16 oz. dried black eyed peas; ○ 6 cups unsalted chicken broth; ○ 1 cup celery; ○ 1 cup carrots; ○ 1 cup onion; ○ 1# Sage sausage; ○ 12 oz. Thick pepper bacon; ○ 1 tsp onion powder; ○ 1 tsp garlic powder; ○ 1 tsp dried thyme; ○ 3 tsp McCormick's Cajun seasoning; ○ 1.5 tsp smoked paprika; ○ 1/4 tsp cayenne; ○ 1 tsp pepper; ○ 1 tsp kosher salt; ○ 2 bay leaves; ○ 3 garlic cloves; ○ 1/4 cup uncooked rice

7 steps

Prep:30minCook:1h 15min

My version of a Southern classic

Updated at: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 21:33:00 GMT

Ingredients

6 servings

16 ozdried black eyed peas

6 cupsunsalted chicken broth

1 cupcelery

1 cupcarrots

1 cuponion

1 #Sage sausage

12 ozpepper bacon

Thick

1 tsponion powder

1 tspgarlic powder

1 tspdried thyme

3 tspCajun seasoning

1 ½ tspsmoked paprika

¼ tspcayenne

1 tsppepper

¼ cuprice

Instructions

Step 1

Soak dried beans overnight. Dump the water the next day and rinse beans.

Step 2

In Dutch Oven cook ground sausage till almost done. Remove sausage from pan and put in a bowl. Reserve 3 slices of bacon. Slice the remaining bacon and crisp in the Dutch oven. When crisp remove and set aside. You'll use this as a topping for the finished dinner.

Step 3

Dice the onion, celery and carrots. Put all of the onion and half of the celery and carrots in the Dutch oven and saute on medium low in the bacon grease for about 10 minutes. The reserved celery and carrots plus the rice will go into the pot in the last 20 or so minutes. So they'll retain a little firmness.

Step 4

After the 10 minutes add 3 minced cloves of garlic and all the remaining seasonings, except the bay leaves. Stir and saute to bloom the seasonings for 30-45 seconds.

Step 5

Add the chicken stock, beans, bay leaves, sausage and the 3 reserved raw slices of bacon. Stir to combine. Being to a slow rolling boil and skim the foam off the top. Turn down to low and cover for 60 minutes. Check for doneness and for any seasoning adjustments.

Step 6

When beans are cooked to your liking remove bay leaves and the 3 slices of bacon. Serve over rice or as a soup. Top with the crisp bacon bits.

Step 7

All told, including prep time, it's about 1.75 hours