Southern Style Black-Eyed Peas

South Your Mouth: Southern Style Black-Eyed Peas! With Smoked Ham Hocks. #Beans #lima #beans #recipe #healthy

Something amazing happened this weekend, y’all! My Canadian, meat-and-potatoes husband ate black-eyed peas! And he LIKED them!!!

Husband doesn't like cooked vegetables. Well, he’ll eat corn and potatoes but they don’t really count in my book. And he’ll eat a salad or other raw veggies but that’s about it on the veggie home front. And it drives me bonkers!

Southern Style Black-Eyed Peas , By Food Blog Nindi .

South Your Mouth: Southern Style Black-Eyed Peas! With Smoked Ham Hocks. #Beans #lima #beans #recipe #healthy

Total time: 310 minutes
Servings: 16 Servings

Ingredients :

• 1 pound dried black-eyed peas
• 4 cups water
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 medium onion, finaely diced
• 2 ham hocks or ham bone
• 1-2 teaspoon black paper

Instructions :

• soak peas in 6 cups water overnight (10-12 hours). Drain peas, rinse well with cold water and themn drain again. Set aside.
• in a large stock pot or dutch oven, sauce onion in butter untin onion is translucent and tender. Add 4 cups water, ham hocks, 1 teaspoon salt, pepper and drained peas to pot. Cover and simmer over mdium-low heat for 4 hours, stirring occasionally.
• remove ham hocks and trim off ham; discarding bones, cartilage and skin. Add ham pieces back to peas and stir. Add more salt to taste then simmer peas on low for one additional hour. If you have more liquid than you'd like, simmer on medium heat, uncovered, until liquid has reduced to your liking.
• I usually serve mine over white rice with some fresh diced onion sprinkled on top but you can serve them on their own as well.