Hoppin’ John

Name: Hoppin’ John
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: Salt; 2 tablespoons bacon fat or lard; 2 medium onions, peeled and finely chopped; ½ pound salt pork, bacon, or smoked hog jowl, sliced; 2 cups (about 1 pound) dried black-eyed peas; 1 cup raw long-grain rice; Hot sauce

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Canon of Vegetables

By Raymond Sokolov

Published 2007

About

This stew of rice, black-eyed peas, and rendered pork is a traditional New Year’s Day dish in Charleston, S.C., where it was supposedly once hawked on the street by a one-legged black man named John.

Ingredients

2 cups (about 1 pound) dried black-eyed peas
½ pound

Americas
United States
Charleston
Stew
New Year
Spicy
Gluten-free

Method

Soak the peas overnight in 6 cups of cold water.
Bring the soaked peas and their water to a boil, add the pork, hot sauce, and salt to taste, reduce the heat, and simmer until the peas are tender, around 20 minutes. Drain and reserve the solid ingredients.
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