Learn how to cook dried black-eyed peas on the stove and in the Instant Pot, and use them in your favorite black-eyed peas recipes instead of canned or frozen black-eyed peas.
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Learn how to cook dried black-eyed peas on the stove and in the Instant Pot. Use them in dozens of delicious and healthy recipes, like Caribbean black-eyed pea stew, and slow cooker black-eyed peas stew.

Spotlight on black-eyed peas

Black-eyed peas are actually beans. They are beige colored and rather distinctive because each bean has a black "eye" or hilum, where the seed was once attached to the pod.

Like most beans, black-eyed peas, also called cowpeas, black-eyed beans and southern peas, are highly nutritious. They are loaded with antioxidants, fiber and protein and are a good source of complex carbohydrates, as well as calcium, magnesium, iron and vitamins A and K. Black-eyed peas also have a very distinctive, nutty, sweet taste, which makes them one of my favorite beans.
In the American south, black-eyed peas have long been associated with good luck, meant to represent coins for prosperity and wealth. As a result these legumes shoot up in popularity around New Year's Day, when they are eaten alongside collard greens and cornbread (try my vegan collard greens and southern-style vegan cornbread).

You can enjoy black-eyed peas in southern favorites like Vegan Hoppin' John and this Southern Instant Po...