Makes 10 servings Native Tennessean Kayne Rogers recommends always asking guests if they have any dietary restrictions or food allergies, even if you think you know the answer. Better to avoid the problem ahead of time than spend an hour watching your guests push food around their plates.
Kayne, now of New York City, serves Goober Peas on New Year’s Day for good luck. Black-eyed peas and a few sides form a simple menu—she calls the recipe “embarrassingly simple”—to serve family and neighbors a taste of the good fortune in the year to come.
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 onion, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped
1 pound bulk pork breakfast sausage
2 (16-ounce) cans black-eyed peas, rinsed and drained
1 (10-ounce) can tomatoes with green chilies
Salt and ground black pepper to taste
Hot cooked rice
Heat the vegetable oil in a medium pan over medium heat. Add the onion and bell pepper and cook until softened. Add the sausage and cook, stirring to break up the sausage, until browned and crumbly. Add the black-eyed peas, tomatoes with green chilies, and salt and pepper. Cook until heated through. Serve over rice.
Makes 10 servings
Note: The level of spiciness is easily adjustable by using mild or hot breakfast sausage; plain canned tomatoes can be substituted for the tomatoes with chilies; plain black-eyed peas can be replaced with a variety seasoned with jalapeño pepper for an even spicier dish.