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One-Pot New Year’s Day Feast for Two

December 28, 2018 by Linda Watson Leave a Comment

One-Pot New Year’s Day Feast for Two

Create your own good fortune for the New Year’s by cooking collards, a sweet potato, and black-eyed peas all in one pot. It costs only $2.14 per serving using organic ingredients!

How does it work? Black-eyed peas surround a halved sweet potato at the bottom of a pot. After awhile, collards join in, kept above the bubbling in a steamer. See the recipe and tips below for this lucky vegan, gluten-free, and low-fat feast. Because it takes only 30 minutes of active time, it’s perfect for a week-night dinner too.

If you are cooking for four, double the recipe and use a bigger pot. It will just take a few minutes more chopping time.

Why lucky? Here in the South, we know that eating lots of greens on New Year’s Day will bring us more folding money and eating black-eyed peas will mean more coins. (Tradition has no recipe for gift cards.) By skipping the fatback and cheese, you’ll save money at the grocery store and minimize your risk of paying for medical care.

This is one of my most popular recipes, now updated to include cost and nutritional information.  It also calls for a red onion instead of a yellow one for more powerful phytonutrients. If you haven’t cooked dried peas or beans before, check out my How to Cook Dried Beans master recipe and  video.

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One-Pot New Year's Day Feast for Two - Vegan and Gluten-Free
Cook collards, black-eyed peas, onions, and collards all in one pot for a lucky New Year's Day feast. Vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free.
black-eyed peas on a sweet potato with collards and salsa
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Cuisine African, Southern
Prep Time 30 minutes
Passive Time 45 minutes
Servings
people
Ingredients
  • 1 1/3 cups dried black-eyed peas 125 grams
  • 2/3 cups water
  • 1 medium sweet potato 360 grams
  • 1/4 teaspoon olive oil
  • 1 medium red onion
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground dried chipotle
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt plus additional salt for collards if desired
  • 8 ounces collard greens 225 grams, about four large leaves
  • 2 tablespoons salsa
  • 1 tablespoon tahini
Cuisine African, Southern
Prep Time 30 minutes
Passive Time 45 minutes
Servings
people
Ingredients
  • 1 1/3 cups dried black-eyed peas 125 grams
  • 2/3 cups water
  • 1 medium sweet potato 360 grams
  • 1/4 teaspoon olive oil
  • 1 medium red onion
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground dried chipotle
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt plus additional salt for collards if desired
  • 8 ounces collard greens 225 grams, about four large leaves
  • 2 tablespoons salsa
  • 1 tablespoon tahini
black-eyed peas on a sweet potato with collards and salsa
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Instructions
  1. Pick over and rinse black-eyed peas. Put peas in a bowl and cover with water, keeping the rest of water in the measuring cup if it won't fit in the bowl. (I use a small bowl that fits in the dishwasher.)
    ingredients: black-eyed peas, tahini, sweet potatoes, salsa, and collards
  2. Scrub sweet potato and cut it in half lengthwise. Test your pot size by putting the two sweet-potato halves in the pot, skin-side down, topping with the steamer with its legs between the sweet potatoes, and then covering the pot. If the pot lid doesn't meet the rim all the way around, use a bigger pot. When you've found a pot that fits, set sweet potato aside. If this seems like gibberish, scroll through the pictures below.
  3. Heat olive oil in the pot over medium-low heat. Chop onion and add to the pot, stirring occasionally to prevent burning. Mince garlic and set aside.
    chopping collards: separating leaves from stems and chopping stems
  4. Pull or cut collard stems away from leaves. If stems are more than a 1/2-inch across, cut lengthwise, then cut stems crosswise into 1/2-inch pieces.
  5. When onions are soft, add garlic, chipotle, and salt. Stir once or twice until fragrant. Use a spoon to clear two spots on the pot's bottom, then add sweet potato skin-side down. (Any onions trapped under the sweet potato will burn.)
    halved sweet potatoes in a pot with sauteed onions
  6. Add black-eyed peas and water, nudging around with a spoon so peas surround potatoes and are under water. Cover the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes.
    halved sweet potatoes cooking with black-eyed peas and onions
  7. Put steamer on top of sweet potatoes and add collard stems. Cover and cook for 5 minutes.
    chopped collard stems in a steamer
  8. Add collard leaves on top of stems. Cover and cook for about 15 minutes, until collards look limp and a bit olive-hued. Try a forkful to make sure they are tender. Sprinkle salt on collards if desired and stir.
    raw collard leaves in a steam basket
  9. Remove the steamer and collards. Test sweet potatoes and black-eyed peas to make sure they are tender. A fork should slip easily into the center of the sweet potato and black-eyed peas should yield easily when you bite a few. If they are not done, cover and simmer until tender, adding a little water if black-eye peas are not covered and are still quite firm.
  10. Serve hot. Put collards on plates and top with salsa. Put sweet potato halves on plates and mash lightly with fork to reveal their brilliant orange interior. Stir tahini into black-eyed peas and spoon over sweet potato halves. For a more casual meal, serve your lucky feast in soup bowls.
    black-eyed peas on a sweet potato with collards and salsa
Recipe Notes
  • If you want a bigger feast, consider adding gluten-free Corny Vegan Cornbread or crispy Chia-Seed Crackers.
  • Pop open a bottle of sparkling organic apple cider for a thrifty holiday beverage. I usually pick up Martinelli's on sale, but even at full price it's less than five dollars a bottle.
  • For dessert, try Lemon Aquafaba Meringues (cheap and elegant),  Apple Walnut Crumble (easy and kid-friendly) or Queenie's Apple Strudel (fun to make and magic).

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Filed Under: Entree, Recipe Tagged With: black-eyed peas, collards, cooking for two, holiday, New Year's Day, sweet potatoes, winter

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