Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, hoppin johns. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Hoppin Johns is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Hoppin Johns is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hoppin johns using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Hoppin Johns:
- Get black eyed peas, dry
- Prepare olive oil
- Get medium yellow onion, chopped
- Make ready celery stalks, chopped
- Make ready garlic, minced
- Prepare bay leaves
- Take chili powder
- Prepare fresh thyme leaves, or 1/2 tsp dried thyme leaves
- Prepare low-sodium chicken broth
- Get large smoked ham hock
- Prepare kosher salt and black pepper,
- Get white rice, steamed
- Get green onion, chopped, for garnish
There are a lot of stories behind Hoppin' John, and probably even more versions of the recipe. I grew up in the Deep South, where Hoppin' John—a dish made with rice and peas—was always served on New Year's Day alongside our greens and cornbread. But it wasn't relegated to just that one day of the year. Cover with water and bring to a boil.
Steps 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!
But it wasn't relegated to just that one day of the year. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Traditionally, Hoppin' John is a one-pot recipe, but that often produces soupy results. Instead, cook the black-eyed peas with aromatics and broth until tender; then strain and reserve the liquid for later. Once the rice is done, gently stir it into the pea mixture with the liquid.
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