Chorizo Hoppin' John
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 2 cups long grain rice, uncooked
- 1 lb dried black-eyed peas (some people use other beans like lentils)
- 2 teaspoons fresh thyme
- 1⁄2 lb smoky bacon (not everyone uses this, but it adds flavor)
- 2 bermuda onions, chopped
- 1 garlic clove, chopped
- 3⁄4 lb chorizo sausage, chopped (same as bacon)
- salt, to taste
- fresh ground black pepper, to taste
- Tabasco sauce, to taste
directions
- Boil the peas and thyme until the peas have split.
- Drain, reserving about a quarter cup of water with the peas.
- In a heavy-bottomed pot, fry up the bacon until just crisped and remove with a slotted spoon.
- In the same pot, add the onion, garlic and chourico, cook until golden and the chourico is just browned.
- While this is going on, boil the rice in plenty of well-salted water until tender.
- Drain and keep ready.
- Drain off most of the fat. Add the peas and water, stir and cover a few minutes.
- Add the cooked rice and reserved bacon and mix well.
- Cook over lowest heat until nearly dry.
- Take care not to scorch the mixture.
- Adjust the seasoning with salt, pepper and the tabasco.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Zuleika L.
Edinburgh
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I am a proud mother of three healthy boys aged 15,11 and 5. I'm originally from the tiny island of Bermuda and have been living in Edinburgh since July 2005.
I've been collecting recipes since I was about 14 or 15 and been cooking and baking since then as well.
I love all kinds of crafts also. In my spare time if I'm not in the kitchen; I crochet, make jewelry, bead, knit, sew, cross stitch, do plastic canvas and quilt. I have a short attention span, so I have plenty of different craft choices when I get bored of doing something. Oh, and I also like to read, listen to music, fiddle with any electronic gadget, collect dvd's and watch them, and I'm an internetaholic! :-) I keep a craft blog at http://hobbyzu.blogspot.com and I sell my crocheted items and patterns at http://hobbyzu.com. I keep pretty busy and being self employed gives me more time to explore cooking! :-)
I'm mostly interested in cook books featuring regular old home cooking and favorites. When I moved to the UK I had to get rid of my cookbook collection. I did keep all my Bermudian cookbooks, charity cookbooks and 'The Foods of Israel Today' and Better Homes and Gardens 'Hometown Favorites'.
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I am most passionate when it comes to my family and caring for them. Getting to feed them is an added bonus! Lucky for me, my boys are steadily growing pigs with bottomless pits for stomachs! lol :-)
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