Lucky Pea Soup

This delicious black-eyed pea soup is a favorite of ours especially when the weather is chilly. It’s a great way to start the year with a kicked-up, spicy serving of black-eyed peas! Top with shredded cheese, parsley, green onions, and crumbled bacon to add even more flavor.

Step: 1

Place the bacon in a skillet and cook over medium-high heat until crisp and evenly brown. Drain on paper towels. When cool, crumble into small pieces.

Step: 2

Using the same skillet, add the peppers and onion; stir and cook over medium-high heat until transparent and tender, about 5 minutes.

Step: 3

Pour the black beans, tomatoes, and water into a large pot. Stir in the peppers, onion, salt, cumin, dry mustard, chili powder, curry powder, pepper, and sugar. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium, cover, and simmer 20 to 25 minutes. Serve hot sprinkled with bacon, and other toppings of your choice.

Per Serving: 272 calories; protein 16g; carbohydrates 41.6g; fat 6g; cholesterol 10.2mg; sodium 1745.1mg.

The word “stew” can refer to 2 time a food and a cooking method. Stewing makes not fast cooking chunks of meat, vegetables or beans in a flavorful liquid . It’s similar to braising, instead it makes have a few notable differences. The meat is chopped into few of pieces instead of being processing menu all of it , and the water based material all of it covers the contents in a stew as compared to a braise’s halfway all of it . When meat or raw fruit are cooked using this method, the resulting dish is called stew.

Stew has a perception for being a rib-sticking meal that comfortable you up on a cold , winter day. It’s true ; a bowl of classic beef stew does have warming properties , but stew’s comfort factor more than a way beyond protecting you from the cold . It’s all about those tender chunks of meat and vegetables, swimming in a thick, ultra-rich gravy. The way they come together make the greatest comfort food, no matter the weather.