Black-Eyed Peas with Tamarind and Coconut Milk

Perhaps it's miles the promise of spring and the few days of sunshine that actually shouldn't be taken for granted after this sort of long and gloomy iciness, as I've been stimulated of overdue. Apart from organizing a few piles and litter which have gathered around the apartment over the months, I've been spending hours targeted around the kitchen, developing and checking out recipes and trying to document them in a well timed way right here on this area. Mind you, I'm effortlessly distracted on the great of instances, and hotter weather isn't going to assist that. Documenting my dishes is at times a daily war and, with a limited amount of hours in a day, I manage my similarly constrained attention span as fine I can.

Without similarly ado, my modern-day offering is this smooth but most flavorful black-eyed pea dish. Cooking would not need to be an all-afternoon affair to provide something nourishing and vibrant for dinner. Serve with a easy lemon rice and a side vegetable dish for a meal a good way to be at the desk in hardly whenever at all and wolfed in tons much less time than that, although it really need to be savored, each delectable bite at a time.

Earthy black-eyed peas are one in all my favored legumes to use in spiced up tomato-based totally curries. This time but, I became feeding my seemingly insatiable longing for something coconut, so as opposed to a predominately tomato-primarily based sauce, right here the tomatoes combine with coconut milk and tamarind resulting in a creamy and highly spiced southern Indian style tamarind gravy that envelops the tender peas in a dynamic embody.

In addition to the goodness that these delights upload to any quantity of dishes, any other advantage of cooking with black-eyed peas is they take hardly any time at all to cook, and even though I commonly soak them overnight, you can escape with a shorter soaking time with out including too much onto the total cooking time.

More black-eyed pea recipes from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:

Black Tea and Gingered Black-Eyed Peas

Cinnamon Spiked Black-Eyed Pea Curry

Turkish Black-Eyed Pea Salad with Pomegranate, Walnuts and Zahtar Dressing

Curried Cauliflower and Black-Eyed Pea Soup

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