Recipe: Delicious Jamaican red peas soup

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Rich and decadent, Jamaican Red Peas Soup (actually made with Red Kidney Beans) is thick, creamy and full of meat, dumplings and ground provisions, making it perfect for a summer starter or a warming winter meal. The traditional recipe calls for stewing beef along with salted pig tails or ham hocks. Red Pea Soup is my all-time favourite soup! You can have Jamaican red peas soup using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Jamaican red peas soup

1. Prepare 3/4 lb of pig tail (cut in pieces).
2. It's 1/2 lb of stew beef (cut in pieces).
3. Prepare 3/4 lb of Red peas.
4. It's 1 1/2 pack of grace cock soup.
5. Prepare 1/2 lb of flour.
6. It's 4 tbs of cornmeal.
7. Prepare 1/2 lb of yam.
8. You need 1/2 lb of sweet potato.
9. It's of pimento seeds.
10. You need 2 stalks of escallion.
11. You need 1 sprig of thyme.
12. Prepare 1 of green scotch bonnet pepper.
13. Prepare 1/2 lb of pumpkin.
14. It's 1 of small dasheen (to thicken soup).
15. It's 1 pk of Kendel coconut powder.
16. Prepare 2 of pegs garlic.
17. It's 10 of pimento seeds.

It's a thick and flavourful soup chock full of meat, starchy vegetables and chewy dumplings. Like most Jamaican soups, Red Pea Soup is more like a stew. Soak the Red Peas and the pig's tail or salt beef overnight. Pour water into a large pot, add red peas, garlic, pimento seeds and pig's tail cover pot and bring to boil until peas and pig's tail is softened or cooked.

Jamaican red peas soup step by step

1. Rinse pig's tail and beef with vinegar and water..
2. Boil pig tail for about 5 mins., to get rid of excess salt..
3. Rinse peas and place in pressure cooker, dice pumpkin and dasheen and add to peas along with garlic and pimento seeds. Add enough water to cover the peas. Then bring to a boil..
4. Pour about 6 cups tap water in the pressure cooker, then add meat. cover and pressure for 30 minutes. (start counting after the pressure cooker starts making that sound :)).
5. Remove from heat and allow the cooker to cool, then open. remove meat if they are already tender..
6. Pour out the contents of the pressure cooker in another pot, or use an ordinary cover on the pressure cooker. Use the flour and cornmeal to make dumplings, peel and slice yam and sweet potato or any other ground provision you like, add to the pot..
7. Mix the coconut cream in 1 cup warm water and add to pot.
8. Add, cock soup, escallion, thyme and scotch bonnet pepper. Cover and allow food to cook. This will take about 15 minutes. Add cooked meat when about 5 mins remain..
9. Stir regularly to prevent sticking..
10. Remove from heat, and enjoy!.

Peel Irish potatoes, carrot and pumpkin, wash then diced them. Peel potatoes and cut into four slices each. Do the same for the yellow yam. Jamaican red peas soup In Jamaica, it is customary for most households to prepare soup especially on Saturdays. However, Red Peas Soup is an old favourite that soothes the soul any day of the week!!