Hoppin' John Recipe for New Year's Day/Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman
This Hoppin' John recipe is a dish from the American south featuring black-eyed peas, often included in southern food and soul food recipes, traditionally served on New Year's Day by those angling for good fortune all year long. I make Hoppin' John every year for this very reason (also, it's inexpensive, easy, nutritious and satisfying). There are all kinds of variants (here's the wikipedia description of
Hoppin John), but they all share three features that I think must be a part of the dish or it's not Hoppin John: black-eyed peas, smokey bacon, and some kind of heat.
I always include onion and I also always include tomato, which is not traditional but I think it gives great acidity and flavor to this bean ...
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