Black-Eyed Peas with Coconut Milk, Curry Leaves and Spices

Serving black-eyed peas with collard vegetables is seemingly right luck for the New Year. It's a tradition within the American South and round the world. Because the beans swell with cooking, the peas are taken into consideration to represent growing prosperity in the New Year and are every so often believed to symbolize coins and the collard veggies paper cash.

Whatever you watched of that lifestyle, the meal I served was delicious enough for me and my eating companions and even a more nourishing dinner served up with some rice. I steamed the collard vegetables and sprinkled them with a chunk of sea salt. It's a snap to prepare too, that's a bonus while you are tired from lack of light.

The black-eyed peas are moderately spiced with a chunk of tangy tomato. The addition of coconut milk reduces the heat except however experience unfastened to ramp up the spices if favored. Many of us indulge particularly over the vacations, so a healthful but fulfilling dinner is maximum welcome to ring inside the New Year. That's exact good fortune enough for me due to the fact cash can't buy happiness or prosperity.

Other black-eyed pea dishes to enjoy:

Spicy Black-Eyed Pea Sambar

Black-Eyed Peas with Tamarind and Coconut Milk

Savory Black-Eyed Pea Pancakes (Poora)

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

Stove-Top Baked Beans with Apple and Sun-Dried Tomatoes

These are not your average baked beans. In reality, I assume that those are technically not "baked beans" at all as they're made completely at the stove-pinnacle ? With the pleasant effect of taking less time ? But they have got the identical wealthy and comforting flavor as those more historically simmered within the oven. In fact, they have an excellent richer flavor with the addition of sun-dried tomatoes, apple and dried cranberries. For a special twist, I used pinto beans and included herbs and a dash of liquid smoke too.

Deep flavored with tips of sweetness and smokiness, this modern tackle an antique conventional pairs truely nicely with a side of rice and a lightly dressed leafy geen salad.

Other pinto bean recipes to enjoy from Lisa's Kitchen:

Refried Beans with Sun-Dried Tomatoes

Peanut and Cashew Pinto Chili with Corn and Avocado Salsa

Gingered Carrot and Pinto Bean Soup

Southern-Style Pinto Beans with Rice and Fried Eggplant

Jamaican-Style Jerk Chili with Chickpeas and Quinoa

As some distance as I am involved, a cook can by no means have sufficient ideas for a hearty chili, particularly at some point of the frigid winter months. It's a pleasant change from soup and just as warming, in particular when you upload a few warmth and aromatic spices ? In this situation, Jamaican jerk-fashion heat and spices. This is a perfectly balanced bowl of goodness that consists of not best legumes, but additionally protein-rich nutty quinoa together with mushrooms, purple pepper and zesty tomato. In addition, it is topped with chunks of fresh creamy avocado to chill the palate.

This is a variant on my classic version of jerk chickpeas.

Other chili recipes to revel in which can be sure to warm you up:

Kidney Bean Pumpkin Chili

Vegetarian Chili with Kidney Beans, Black Beans and Rye Berries

Vegetarian Three Bean Chili with a Cashew-Pistachio Sauce

Peanut and Cashew Pinto Chili with Corn and Avocado Salsa

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Quinoa and Chickpea Salad with Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Dried Cherries

It has been a darkish iciness right here in London Ontario, but this salad is quite though and filled with lots of protein. So that could cheer you up. I realize it's soup season in reality, however I turned into yearning salad and this one has everything you want. Each chew is a taste revel in. Included along with the nutty quinoa and buttery gentle chickpeas are gently toasted cashews, tangy solar-dried tomatoes and tart dried cherries. I dressed up all that goodness with olive oil, pink wine vinegar, manuka honey, a few freshly squeezed orange juice and a chunk of spice.

Other salads to revel in from Lisa's Kitchen:

Vegan Caesar Salad

Beetroot, Leek and Walnut Salad

Black Bean Salad with Fresh Mango and a Chaat Masala Dressing

Indian-Style Coleslaw

Chickpea Avocado Bites with Sun-Dried Tomatoes

I adore little bites and these filling little appetizers ought to surely be a meal with none different adornments ? At least for me! I don't devour eggs any more, however the creaminess and taste of this concoction should without difficulty remind considered one of a deviled egg filling. In this example, I served this on crusty bread. Tart and tangy with a touch of heat, you certainly should simply devour this through the spoonful. It's that exact.

Other appetizers to revel in from Lisa's Kitchen:

Baked Mini Vegetable Chickpea Samosas

Coleslaw Bites with Jalape?O Dip

Baked Quinoa Falafel Bites

Chana Vada (Chana Dal Peanut Patties) with a Tamarind Chili Sauce

Indian-Style Split Pea Soup with Cornmeal Dumplings

Split pea soup is a classic Canadian comfort food. If you are Canadian, you probably remember growing up eating cans of Habitant pea soup, or maybe you still do. Simple with little else but split peas, salt, onion and maybe a few diced carrots or celery, my husband still adores split pea soups. But I can't bring myself to make something quite so basic — but I don't mind turning something basic into something extraordinary.

So this split pea soup is "Indian-ized" with Indian seasonings, but it's extra special because I also put in some plump, colorful and hearty spiced cornmeal dumplings in the soup too. This is pretty much a complete comfort meal in a bowl, and is one of the finest soups I have made in a while. The broth itself was a treat. And did I mention the dumplings? After this, you won't settle for canned split pea soup again!

I don't consider that the photos are up to par, but it's been dark here pretty much for the last few months. I trust that fellow cooks will judge the recipe without fancy photos.

Other recipes featuring split peas:

Indian-Style Split Pea Soup

Ash-e Anar ( Persian Split Pea and Pomegranate Soup )

Indian-Style Yellow Split Pea Curry (Matar Dal)

Split Pea Cilantro Dumplings in a Coconut Curry

French Lentil Soup with Mushrooms, Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Kale

It's that time of year whilst soup is so regularly at the menu. Craving mushrooms, I got here up with this nourishing soup that includes peppery Puy lentils for depth and substance, inexperienced kale for some more earthy flavor, solar-dried tomatoes and a jalape?O for a few tang and only a little warmth ? And, of direction, mushrooms. This is a bold full-flavored soup that comes throughout as similarly elegant as rustic, depending on the way you examine it, however it's miles pretty easy enough to function a delightful hearty lunch with a few crusty bread. It is also a great preference for dinner, and I served it up with a few pearl barley cooked in vegetable stock.

This is my contribution this month to My Legume Love Affair, a monthly occasion celebrating legumes. Lovely Susan of The Well Seasoned Cook turned into the originator, I'm now the administrator and this month Rafeeda of The Big Sweet Tooth is kindly hosting.

Other mushroom dishes you're sure to enjoy from my kitchen:

Creamy Thai Coconut Mushroom Soup

Miso Mushroom Risotto

Mushroom and Goat Cheese Quesadillas with Sun-Dried Tomatoes

Portobellos Stuffed with Spinach and Sun-Dried Tomatoes