For summer barbecues, try this corn salad! This meal tastes really fresh and can be made very quickly by combining canned goods with fresh ingredients. I recommend adjusting the proportions below for a family-size serving because these are what I use when I cook a large batch for BBQs. To maintain extra-cold freshness, refrigerate! Refrigerator storage is effective.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 2 hrs 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 2 hrs 45 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 cups finely shredded napa cabbage
- 1 (8 ounce) can sliced water chestnuts, drained
- 1 pound ham hocks
- 2 bay leaves
- ½ teaspoon Cajun seasoning
- ⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- salt to taste
- 1 quart chicken stock
- 1 (10 ounce) package frozen black-eyed peas
- 3 cups water
- 1 ½ cups basmati rice, well rinsed
Instructions
- Heat oil in a deep pan or stockpot set over medium-high heat. Stir in onion and garlic and cook until transparent, about 5 minutes. Mix in cabbage; toss and cook until wilted, about 2 minutes. Add ham hocks, bay leaves, Cajun seasoning, cayenne pepper, and salt, stirring for 2 minutes more. Pour in chicken stock and black-eyed peas. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce heat to low, and cook uncovered for 2 hours.
- Meanwhile, place water and rice into a saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer until all liquid is absorbed and rice is light and fluffy, about 20 minutes.
- Before serving, remove ham hocks from the pot. Coarsely chop the meat and return to the black-eyed pea mixture. Serve hot over rice.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 815 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 89 g |
| Cholesterol | 82 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 7 g |
| Protein | 34 g |
| Saturated Fat | 10 g |
| Sodium | 1142 mg |
| Sugars | 6 g |
| Fat | 36 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Love this by killing two birds with one stone with cabbage and black eyed peas. But am I crazy, they do not tell you when to add the water chestnuts in the recipe! OMG. It is delicious and love the crunch of the phantom WC!
Looks like this recipe has been here a while but we found it while looking for something a bit different at the last minute for our traditional new year’s day black eyed peas supper and this was perfect. Didn’t have ham so used 2 pork chops which I shredded near the end of cooking. Used dried black eyed peas after soaking about 1 hour. We like a bit more spicy so increased cayenne about 2x. Also added a splash of Sriracha – about 2 tb – just before serving. Also used more chicken stock. Recipe doesn’t include how or when to add water chestnuts so I added at the start. I had whole water chestnuts on hand so cut up into smaller pieces. It added a nice unexpected crunch. Will definitely try again soon using ham hocks.
I made this for my friends for NYD 2021, & it was a big hit! I soaked a 16-oz bag of beans for a few hours, which cut my cooking time to just over an hour. I finely shredded a quarter head of regular cabbage, which came out to 4 cups, but it cooked down so much it wasn’t even noticeable. Skipped the water chestnuts too. I served it with cornbread, as my group of southerners HAVE to have cornbread with the blackeye peas. It filled my 5-quart Dutch oven. Delicious and a great way to fill us up with warm goodness & a good start to the new year.
my husband actually enjoyed this soup!! used bone in pork chops (cut up in stew when cooked) and bone chops with red cabbage because only thing available. was very tasty and a keeper. Thank you for sharing!
Even my dear hubby that hates black eyed peas ate 2 helpings! I used the sliced water chestnuts. I added them with the peas. It added a nice crunchy texture. Okay, I didn’t have Napa cabbage. I used regular green cabbage chopped. And had leftover ham bone in freezer from thanksgiving so used it instead of buying ham hocks. My husband even said we could have this more often than New Year’s Day! Yes, it’s a keeper! Thank you!
Perfect soup for New Year’s Day! I will make this for others in the future, not only myself…..Wonderful comfort food! Who knew?
Excellent way to eat BE peas and rice. I had leftover fried cabbage and onions to add, and part basmati rice with some bomba rice to make up the amount. Chopped leftover ham, simmered with chicken stock and ate with sourdough bread. Yum.
I made about 3 cups of rice and a pound of black eyed peas in the pressure cooker before hand and then put all of the ingredients with the cabbage back in the cooker for about 5-6 minutes under pressure…quick release. Everything was delicious. Spice and salt it like you like it. Makes a lot this way. I’ll have plenty for the week and hopefully lots of luck!
Not impressed, not much to it. It was bland other than the heat. Paula Dean has a great recipe with white northern beans, perhaps I’ll substitute those for the black eyed peas and add half collard greens half cabbage, just for the lucky bit.
I love this stew. My daughter, a teenager, asks me to make this often.
Awesome
I made this dish to use up green cabbage and ham hocks left over from other recipes. It’s good, but not amazing, and I doubt I’d make it again unless I had more leftover ingredients I didn’t want to go to waste. This is a bean and cabbage stew… not sure what I was expecting.
Delicious! Yes I will make it again, soon! I used black-eyed peas no green. It is called stew so the pic shows green peas in it but I made it exactly with the ingredients listed.
Perfect! I had just bought a pound of smoked Basmati rice; it was so good with this stew. I used three cloves of garlic instead of two, and green cabbage instead of napa (what was in my fridge). Loved it! Sometimes, black-eyed peas can be a little trying. . .not this recipe.
This recipe was a hit with my group. I added a lot more cabbage and peas and less moisture to make it more stew like. I also used butter to saute my onions and a little bit of sherry to deglaze with which really kicked up the flavor. I also suggest using smoked hammocks if you can get them as this adds more flavor as well.
I made this recipe for my husband who loves black eyed peas. I was skeptical. I did also soak my peas overnight, and this is where I changed the recipe. I found that my peas were too soft so I added two cans of black eyed peas to thicken the stew. It became perfect. I also served it over a basmati vegetable mix from Trader Joe’s. it has veggies and both basmati rice and wild rice. It was just so good, and I am not a huge fane of black eyed peas, but this recipe is a keeper and one I will make often. Just very yummy in my tummy. My family gave it a 5 thumbs up. (5 of us)definitely will make this again.
I fixed this dish on New Year’s day for my girlfriend and myself. She could not stop raving about how good it was. (Brownie points for me) My family tradition was to have black eyed peas (for luck) and cabbage (for money) for the coming year on new years day. This recipe accomplished both. I too was confused about the water chestnuts, so I chopped them up and used them as garnish. Added a nice texture. Served with cheddar biscuits, excellent addition. I will definitely not wait until next new years day to make this again.
Lucky New Years Black Eyed Pea Stew Haiku: “Made this four years now. Why have I not reviewed it?? So very yummy!” Can’t believe that I’ve neither reviewed this recipe, nor made it any other time of the year, other than on New Year’s Day because we LOVE it. I’d give it 4.5 stars as written (which I have prepared and eaten), and 5 stars (and more) w/ some little changes. Green cabbage instead of Napa, 3-4 slices chopped bacon (saute the onion and garlic in a little of the bacon grease), no water chestnuts, canned black eyed peas. We serve ours either over basmati or mashed potatoes, but always w/ a few splashes of chipotle tabasco sauce.
This was very enjoyable for my whole family this New Year’s Day. It will be a tradition in my house.
This was tasty but I think I’ll add cubed ham next time instead of the ham hocks.
Great recipe and so flexible. I used ham hocks and added additional ham. I also used 2 cans of black-eye peas and regular cabbage. My husband who would grudgingly eat one black-eyed pea on New Years, had many more today in this stew and pronounced it “pretty good”. Now, that’s an accolade!