BAKED BLACK-EYED PEAS AND SMOKED SAUSAGE
This recipe for Baked Black-Eyed Peas and Smoked Sausage goes great with some cornbread, turnip greens and boiled eggs. Don’t forget the sweet tea! Southerners love their black-eyed peas and this family loves them, too. You can make this with dried, frozen or canned black-eyed peas. I made this recipe with the dried cooked peas.
Baked black-eyed peas with smoked sausage would be a great recipe for serving on New Years if you believe it is lucky to serve them on the first day of a new year.
1 1/2 cups dried black-eyed peas, (cooked according to package directions) or two 14 ounce cans, undrained. or you could use frozen peas.
1 small onion, chopped
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon spicy brown mustard
2 tablespoons tomato ketchup
1 tablespoon molasses or syrup
1/2 cup chopped green pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 pound smoked sausage, sliced in rounds
Cook dried peas according to package directions leaving about 1/2 cup of the soup and draining the rest. Add the chopped onion, brown sugar, mustard, ketchup, molasses, salt, pepper and sausage. Stir all ingredients together in a 2 quart baking dish and bake covered in a preheated 350 degree oven for 30 minutes. Remove cover and bake another 15 minutes. Makes 6 to 8 servings. Enjoy!
Baked Black-eyed Peas and Smoked Sausage
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups dried black-eyed peas (cooked according to package directions) or two 14 ounce cans, undrained. or you could use frozen peas.
- 1 small onion chopped
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon spicy brown mustard
- 2 tablespoons tomato ketchup
- 1 tablespoon molasses or syrup
- 1/2 cup chopped green pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 pound smoked sausage sliced in rounds
Instructions
- Cook dried peas according to package directions leaving about 1/2 cup of the soup and draining the rest. Add the chopped onion, brown sugar, mustard, ketchup, molasses, salt, pepper and sausage. Stir all ingredients together in a 2 quart baking dish and bake covered in a preheated 350 degree oven for 30 minutes. Remove cover and bake another 15 minutes. Makes 6 to 8 servings.
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