Lucky Black-Eyed Peas Amongst Escarole Together With Ham



Ingredients:
1 lb dried black-eyed peas
1 onion, chopped
1-2 cayenne peppers, chopped
1 stem celery, chopped
iii cloves garlic, minced
half dozen cups ham stock
1 lb cubed hickory smoked ham
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon apple tree cider vinegar
1 tablespoon fresh thyme
1 teaspoon hot paprika
body of body of water salt
freshly terra firma dark pepper
1 medium caput escarole, cutting into bite-sized pieced


Directions:
The dark earlier you lot desire to serve the dish, house the black-eyed peas inward a four quart irksome cooker. Fill it amongst water. Cover in addition to permit to sit down overnight. Drain, furnish the black-eyed peas to the pot in addition to add together the spices, ham, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, onion, peppers, garlic, in addition to celery. Stir. Cook on depression 8-10 hrs. One hr earlier you lot would similar to serve, stir inward the escarole. It mightiness await similar it won't check inward the irksome cooker only a few stirs should endure plenty to comprise it. Cover in addition to piece of job on to cook*. Serve as-is or over cooked white rice.


*If you lot are pressed on fourth dimension at night, you lot tin add together the escarole inward the morn only it volition endure quite soft past times dinnertime.

Tip: If you lot choose fourth dimension inward the morning, lightly chocolate-brown the ham on all sides to choose out the flavour earlier adding it to the irksome cooker.


My thoughts:
This recipe is a proficient luck powerhouse! Black-eyed peas are oftentimes served on New Year's Day because they corking (or await similar coins, depending on your source) when cooked symbolized increment in addition to prosperity inward the coming year. Cabbage or collards is oftentimes served also every bit it symbolizes newspaper money. I swapped roughly other leafy green, escarole, for the cabbage only the thought is the same. The final fighting of luck comes from the ham which is said to endure lucky because pigs are portly, symbolizing prosperity in addition to they "root forward" symbolizing progress.

I made this recipe in addition to then it is a fighting soupy, perfect for serving over rice or mopping upwardly amongst crusty bread.

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