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Instant Pot Black-Eyed Peas are so delicious, and they are a fast cooking bean! Don’t even bother soaking them, just season them with great ingredients, and have a fortuitous bowl of good-luck-bringing, pressure cooked black-eyed peas. Don’t forget the collard greens, this recipe has them as a tasty option! Make pressure cooker black eyed peas and Steam in the New Year!
Originally published 12/29/2017
Instant Pot Black-Eyed Peas
A long held tradition in the Southern United States is eating black-eyed peas and collard greens on New Year’s Day for good luck. The more black-eyed peas you eat, the more luck you will have.
The peas (actually beans) swell when cooked, so they symbolize prosperity; the greens symbolize money; the pork, because pigs root forward when foraging, represents positive motion (according to Wikipedia).
This tradition is very popular, and black-eyed peas appear in recipes such as Cowboy Caviar in Texas, to Hoppin’ John in Alabama, to Peas with Ham up in North Carolina (according to Southern Living).
The Black-Eyed Peas are usually cooked with some kind of pork, for flavor, and though I was told that a good Southerner does not cook collard greens with the black-eyed peas, I did anyway. I’m from Seattle (Mom from the South).
This Instant Pot Black-Eyed Peas recipe is fast cooking, for a dry beans recipe, so it makes sense, and tastes great, to cook the collards with the beans. However, if you do not like that method, I have a fabulous Instant Pot Collard Greens recipe that you can make separately!
If you like a more traditional version of black-eyed peas, try my Southern Black-Eyed Peas recipe
Instant Pot Black Eyed Peas with Collard Greens (or without) are a delicious meal to enjoy any time of the year!
This has been a fun and also challenging year for me, and I’m curious to see what the next year will bring!
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Happy New Year!
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Instant Pot Black-Eyed Peas
Ingredients
- 1 Tbsp Olive Oil
- 1 small Onion, chopped
- 2 Celery Ribs (Stalks), diced
- 1 Bell Pepper, red or green
- 2 small Bay Leaves
- 2 sprigs Fresh Thyme, or 1/2 tsp dried
- 3 tsp Smoked Paprika
- ½ tsp Black Pepper
- 1 tsp Coarse Salt, or 3/4 tsp table salt
- 4 cloves Garlic, pressed or minced
- 1 Jalapeño Pepper, seeded and diced small
- 3 ½ cups Chicken Broth, low sodium
- 2 tsp Balsamic Vinegar
- 1-2 slices Bacon, chopped
- 1 small Ham Hock (or meaty ham bone)
- 1 ¼ cups Black-Eyed Peas, dry*
- 2 cups Collard Greens, (optional) chopped in 2" pieces
Instructions
- Turn the pressure cooker on to the Sauté function. When the display reads Hot, add the oil.
- Add the onion, celery, and bell pepper, and bay leaves. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the onion starts to turn translucent.
- Add the thyme, smoked paprika, pepper, and salt. Stir.
- Add the garlic and jalapeño. Cook for about 30 seconds, stirring frequently.
- Add the broth, balsamic vinegar, bacon, and ham hock.
- Stir in the black-eyed peas, and collard greens, if using.
- Place the lid on the pressure cooker, locking it in place. Set the steam release knob to the Sealing position. Cancel the Sauté function.
- Press the Pressure Cook/Manual button (or dial) and use the + or - button (or dial) to select 17 minutes (for firmer beans choose 14 minutes). High Pressure.
- When the cooking cycle has ended and the pot beeps, let it sit undisturbed for 15 minutes (15 minute Natural Release), then turn the steam release knob to the Venting position to release the remaining steam/pressure.
- When the pin in the lid drops down, open it and give the contents a stir. Discard bay leaves and ham hock (the ham hock won't be tender, it is for flavor, but if you can get some meat off of it, add it to the pot!).
- Serve over rice for a Hoppin' John, or as is. Enjoy with cornbread to sop up that yummy broth! Happy New Year! Or, any time of year!
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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In a word, delicious! I’ve made other BEP recipes on previous NYD’s and they were forgettable. This is a keeper. Some small edits, replaced bell peppers with a mild chile, doubled the bacon as I didn’t have a ham hock and sauteed the bacon, onions, garlic, etc with spices for about 20 minutes before adding in the broth and beans. Served on top of a piece of cornbread with drizzled raw honey, so so good!
Delicious! I used a 6qt Ninja Foodi (which I love) and adjusted for what ingredients I had.
I didn’t use the ham, jalapeno pepper, balsamic vinegar, chicken broth.
In lieu of the chicken broth I sub’d pork stock from a pork shoulder recipe a few day earlier. Used 7-8 slices of bacon and about 1.5 cups of andouille sausage. Doubled the minced garlic, used an entire 16oz package of black eyed peas, sub’d smoked paprika in lieu of paprika, no collard greens (although next time I’d like to try).
Served this with iron skillet cornbread = very yummy!
Just made this. I used 1 lb of dried black eyed peas and adjusted the spices accordingly. No bacon. The flavor is fantastic, this is definitely a keeper. Thanks very much for this well written recipe!
So good! I did these yesterday in my Breville Fast Slow Pro for 7 mins. No jalapeños, no colards, and used smoked turkey wings I got from my local grocery store. I also used Better Than Bullion instead of stock. Hands down the best beans I’ve ever made!!! Thank you!
Great recipe! Thank you. Like others, I’ve been making blackeyed peas for years but this was the best. I was looking for something in IP. This was superb. My only deviances from recipe were (1) I used Christmas ham bone to make broth, which I used in this recipe and others so added chopped ham at the end; (2) no jalapeno on hand so added one can of tomato with chilis (Rotel). Result was outstanding!!!
So Good
Really delicious recipe! I made a few minor changes- slightly less smoked paprika, 1/2 of a fresh jalapeno instead of a whole and substituted diced ham for ham hock. I also sauteed the bacon and ham with the garlic and jalapeno. Simply wonderful, everyone loved it. Thank you for sharing.
This recipe turned out great. Will make this again. Thank you!
This was a fabulous recipe! I made it with yellow eyed beans, which needed at least 15 minutes more cooking, but the flavor was outstanding! Keeping this for a go-to recipe! Thank you, and happy new year!
Yay! Happy New Year!
Delicious!
No need for a long explanation…the best blackeyed peas recipe ever!
This was my first time doing this and this was an awesome recipe! I was determined to make them because I work too much and can’t devote my time! The reason I give 4 stars is because this recipe really lacked salt and heat. Easy thing to fix! Definitely will make this again!