Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, hoppin johns. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Hoppin Johns is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Hoppin Johns is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
This Southern staple serves up a generous helping of comfort and tradition. We use thick-cut bacon to get the perfect amount of smokiness, as opposed to a ham hock. A ham hock can, at times, overpower the dish. Traditionally, Hoppin' John is a one-pot recipe, but that often produces soupy results.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have hoppin johns using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Hoppin Johns:
- Get 1 lb black eyed peas, dry
- Take 2 Tbsp olive oil
- Take 1/2 medium yellow onion, chopped
- Make ready 3 celery stalks, chopped
- Prepare 2 cloves garlic, minced
- Make ready 2 bay leaves
- Make ready 1 tsp chili powder
- Prepare 1 tsp fresh thyme leaves, or 1/2 tsp dried thyme leaves
- Make ready 8 cups low-sodium chicken broth
- Get 1 large smoked ham hock
- Make ready to taste kosher salt and black pepper,
- Get 3 cups white rice, steamed
- Get green onion, chopped, for garnish
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Instructions to make Hoppin Johns:
- Pour the black eyed peas onto a rimmed baking sheet and shake to distribute them into a single layer. Search through and discard any bad peas or stones. Transfer to a strainer, rinse with cool water and set aside.
- Place a large soup pot over medium heat and warm the olive oil until shimmering. Then add the onion and celery and cook for about 3 minutes until the onions and celery soften a bit.
- Next,add garlic and stir in the bay leaves, chili powder and thyme leaves and allow the spices to toast for about 1 minute.
- Pour in the chicken broth then add the ham hock and give it a stir. Bring it to a boil, then reduce heat to low. Allow stock to simmer for 30 minutes.
- After simmering, stir in the black eyed peas and return to a boil, then reduce heat again to low and simmer, stirring frequently, for about 1–1 ½ hours or until the black eyed peas are creamy and tender. Once the peas are tender, remove the ham hock from the pot and separate the meat from the bone. Cut away the fat and gristle, chop the meat and add back to the pot.
- Test the soup and season to taste with salt and fresh cracked pepper.
- Serve over steamed white rice and garnish with chopped green onions. Enjoy!
The atmosphere is retro with emphasis on excellent service but casual and not pretentious. A focus on quality beverages such as vintage cocktails prepared with quality ingredients, excellent wines and the best of North Carolina craft beers. Hoppin' John is a basic, simple black-eyed pea stew. I kept it extremely pared down, and when I made it yesterday I had a hard time not adding bright red bell pepper, big pieces of torn kale, and canned diced tomatoes. All of these are acceptable, of course, but I wanted to keep it basic and unadorned.
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