Hearty Meaty Black Eye Pea Soup For A Crowd Recipes

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• 1. You will need a huge pot to make this amount of soup, but you can cut back on most of the ingredients, and still enjoy a great soup. Add the ham chunks to the pot, along with the Rough chopped garlic and a few peppers gives the soup a head start in flavor. Add enough water to cover. I like to cook the Ham chunks about and hour, before adding in the dried peas and other veggies.
• 2. These are some of the ingredients I used to create the soup. I did not use the extra canned Black Eye peas. Pick through the dry peas for pebbles and grit, and discolored beans, then wash and add to the pot. Pour in the stock, and cover pot with lid while you prep the other veggies. Heat over medium low heat.
• 3. I like to cut the veggies into large pieces and add them after about the first hour of cooking, so they flavor the broth in the soup peppers, onions,& celery. Don't forget to add the Bay leaves.
• 4. That's a lot of onions but you are making a large pot of soup, and the onions and garlic adds lots of flavor especially when combined with the granulated onion and garlic and other herbs and spices.
• 5. This is a partial pix of the canned items. Open all the canned veggies & tomato paste and pour them into a large bowl,that way they can all go into the pot at the same time. I add them about half way through cooking time, after checking the peas to see if they are somewhat tender.
• 6. Allow them to cook over medium high heat. Adding the spices about midway through cooking. I prefer adding all of the spices into a medium size bowl and then adding them all at once into the soup, then stirring them thoroughly to blend together. NOTE: I PURPOSELY DID NOT ADD SALT TO THE RECIPE, it had enough salt for us FROM THE HAM & OTHER INGREDIENTS.
• 7. Cut the smoked Sausage on the bias to get more meat per serving. Then add to the pot.
• 8. The baby spinach only takes a few minutes to wilt into the hot soup broth. So add it during the final 10 minutes of cooking, and stir to blend into the soup.
• 9. This is what the soup looked like after cooking. So serve with your favorite bread and enjoy. I made a Southern Style corn Bread with corn and chopped green chilis. My daughter who does not care for Black Eyed peas, ate 2 bowls full, as did my husband, and I only had one bowl but had 2 pieces of corn Bread. It was great on a day when the temperature was in the teens.
• 10. This is the Corn Bread I served with it. Recipe is from a Watkins Keepsake Cookbook, and was a perfect accompaniment.

Steps:

• In a large Dutch oven, cook and stir the pork sausage and ground beef with the onion over medium heat until the meat is no longer pink, 10 to 12 minutes; drain off excess fat. Pour in the water, and stir in black-eyed peas, diced tomatoes, tomatoes with green chiles, Worcestershire sauce, garlic salt, salt, canned green chilies, molasses, beef bouillon cubes, black pepper, and cumin until thoroughly mixed.
• Bring the soup to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer, cover, and simmer for 45 minutes.

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• Sort through the peas and pick out any pebbles or other debris. Rinse the peas under cold water. Put the peas in a 5-quart Dutch oven and cover with 5 cups cold water. Place over high heat and bring to a boil; boil for 1 minute. Remove from the heat, cover and let peas soak for 1 hour.
• Cook the bacon in a large skillet over medium heat until crispy, 6 to 8 minutes. Transfer the bacon to a paper towel-lined plate to cool. When cool, crumble the bacon and set aside. Add the oil to the skillet with the bacon fat Add the onions, carrots and celery and cook, stirring frequently, until tender, about 10 minutes. Add the collard greens and garlic and cook until the garlic is fragrant, about 1 minute.
• Add the vegetables to the Dutch oven along with the chicken broth, ham hock, crumbled bacon, rice and 4 cups water. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook, covered, until the peas and rice are tender, 45 minutes to 1 hour.
• Remove the ham hock from the Dutch oven. Discard the skin and bone. Chop the meat into small pieces and return it to the Dutch oven. Season the soup with salt and pepper.

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• In a large saucepan, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp; remove to paper towels. Drain, reserving 1 tablespoon drippings. In the drippings, saute the green pepper, onion and garlic until tender., Add peas, tomatoes, water and seasonings. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes. Sprinkle with cheese, parsley and bacon.

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• In a skillet, combine the first 10 ingredients. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10-15 minutes. Sprinkle with cheese.

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• Saute onion, jalepenos, garlic and salt and pepper in 1 tbls.
• bacon drippings.
• Add tomatoes and chop up.
• Add bouillon and bacon; then peas.
• Simmer a while to blend flavors (not a high boil).
• Add cheese to simmer and melt.

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• In a large saucepan, saute celery and onion in butter until tender. Add the peas, water and tomatoes. Bring to a boil. Stir in the ham, Italian seasoning, pepper and salt. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, until heated through, about 20 minutes.