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Southern Black Eyed Peas | Traditional Recipe for Good Luck



If you’re making black-eyed peas for good luck, this is the recipe you need.
These Southern Black-Eyed Peas are slow-simmered, rich, flavorful, and full of that old-school comfort food taste. Whether you’re making them for New Year’s Day or just craving a soulful, hearty meal, this recipe hits every time.

In the South, black-eyed peas symbolize prosperity, luck, and abundance — and I’m showing you how to make them the right way with deep flavor and simple ingredients.

✔️ Perfect for New Year’s traditions
✔️ Classic Southern comfort food
✔️ Easy, flavorful, and family-approved

SOUTHERN BLACK-EYED PEAS TRADITIONAL
(New Year’s Style with Smoked Turkey)

Ingredients
* 1 lb dried black-eyed peas (rinsed, soaked overnight or quick-soaked)
* 1–2 smoked turkey leg, wings, or necks
* 1 small onion, diced
* 1 bell pepper, diced (optional but traditional)
* 3 cloves garlic, minced
* 8 -10 cups water or chicken broth
* 1 tsp salt (adjust later)
* 1 tsp black pepper
* ½ tsp paprika
* ½ tsp garlic powder
* ½ tsp onion powder
* Pinch of cayenne (optional)
* Bay leaf (optional)
Instructions
1. Add smoked turkey to a large pot with water/broth. Bring to a boil, then simmer 30–40 or about 1 hour if using a turkey leg, to release flavor and tenderize the meat.
*Shred the meat.
2. Add peas, onion, bell pepper, garlic, and seasonings.
3. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover, and simmer 1–1½ hours, stirring occasionally.
4. Taste and adjust salt near the end.
5. Serve with rice or cornbread.

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32 Comments

  3. @Licygabriel

    👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾New Years Eve love & blessings to all 🙏🏾May your 2026 be your YEAR OF VICTORY 🥰

  14. @PurpleSheRa

    Yum, I appreciate you sharing. My grandma would make the best New Years meal every year. Blacked eyed peas, her homemade chacha (sweet red tomato relish), Collards, CornBread, Pork & Sauerkraut. Heartbreaking I dont have her recipes. 😭😭

  20. @ingabruce629

    I just finished cooking my black eyed peas. Your peas looks delicious. Have a blessed New Year! 🎉🎉🎉

  23. @rundatbagup

    Looks amazingly delicious, hands down 😋😋😂😂. Thank you for this beautiful traditional recipe. Bless and HNY 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🍾🍾🎇🎇

  25. @yolanda5756

    I love black eyes peas & I usually eat quite a bit of the turkey while trying to remove it from the bone 😂

    I need a boiler like that. I cook them in my pressure cooker. 30 minutes 🥣

  27. @kdiggz007

    What would be the cook time in a crockpot? I've never made them in one & I'm reading 8 hours¿? 😮 If anyone has any experience with the crockpot version, please let me know 😊Thanks!!

  28. @Biggirl-c1r

    Tradition you supposed to eat only pork for the new year, no turkey, no chicken no paultry, no shrimp lobster because they all crawl backwards.

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