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so a little bit of the story before I
get into this black-eyed peas recipe in about
1973-74 I was in preschool and one of
the things they used to always make more
black-eyed peas and I'm sure they were
pretty much just dumping the black-eyed
peas into a pot and heating them up and
serving them well another thing they
used to always cook was just the basic
salad with these big old thick chunks of
like cheddar cheese in it
with some Italian dressing on it and I
hated that salad so me and one of my
friends used to always switch so I take
his southern style black-eyed peas and then he would
take my salad anyway this recipe here
takes me back to my childhood so gives
me kind of in my heart and I haven't
really made this a lot because I thought
for some reason my wife didn't like
black-eyed peas but she told me she
likes them I don't know where I got that
misconception anyway there's gonna be a
very quick simple recipe let's go over
these ingredients and get it hooked up
these thing gradients I'm gonna be using
for my soul food black-eyed peas Recipe I bought a 16
ounce bag of black-eyed peas and let
them soak for about eight hours then I
rinsed them off I'm using some jalapenos
some garlic this is what I like right
here is i'ma be adding some okra to this
a lot of people slip on okra I'm telling
you you can never go wrong with okra I
have some chicken stock one onion that's
been diced up this is gonna be a healthy
black-eyed peas
I'm using some smoked chicken dark meat
chicken that I have here we're gonna hit
it with a little bit of slap your mama a
couple bay leaves and instead of butter
or anything like that bacon grease we're
gonna be hitting it with some olive oil
anyway those are ingredients let's get
started first thing I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna start cooking down this okra a
little bit and that's mainly just to get
rid of a little bit of that slime that
can kind of happen with okra so I'm just
gonna get a generous amount of olive oil
in here and add our okra
how that our oprah's cooks about two
minutes we're going to go ahead and add
our onion
or jalapeno
and our garlic now right now I've been
cooking at about a high but I'm gonna go
ahead and turn this down like a medium
low and I'm just gonna cook this until
the onions and peppers almost get
caramelized just to bring out a little
bit of that natural sweetness this sweat
down for about ten minutes I'm gonna go
ahead and add my chicken now I have this
chicken kind of broke into bigger pieces
but you could cut that at finally if you
want and our Black Eyed Peas
throw in a couple of aliens
and now our chicken stock if this
chicken stock doesn't cover this up I
will go ahead and add a little bit of
water to it that should be good to go
and I'm just going to hit it with a
little bit of this slap your mama it's
gonna be about a tablespoon and I'm
gonna go ahead and run this on
medium-high bring it up to kind of like
a simmer and just kind of keep it right
there for about 25-30 minutes we're
about 25 minutes in on this and the
beans are technically cooked but but I
am going to go a little bit longer and
I'm gonna go as long as it takes for
this to kind of start thickening up a
little bit now some of the reason why
some of these beans may cook faster than
others could be the age of the beans how
long they were soaked
things like that but these are cooking a
little bit slower than normal so you do
want to watch out for that white piece
took about 45 50 minutes to get as
tender as I like which is a little bit
longer than it typically takes but you
know what sometimes things are gonna
change a little bit anyway I'm gonna let
this cool down a little bit we're gonna
plate it up see we think about it
these Black Keys have had a chance to
cool down a little bit let's get in see
what's up
I smoke from the chicken it's kind of
coming through the okra I'm telling you
I might even actually have more okra
when I do this again takes me right back
to 1973 right here outside of fact it
tastes better man you could throw a
little hot sauce on here but I'm telling
you well the jalapenos I used in here
are extra spicy so I made go with some
hot sauces they weren't as spicy but
these are definitely spicy anyway
give it a shot I'd like to thank you
guys you know what give it a shot with
this okra I'm telling you that is the
key ingredient and this one for me
anyway thanks for watching my easy black eyed peas recipe
I appreciate it Make this soul food recipe
you will love it