Red Peas Soup

Name: Red Peas Soup
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 4 h 40 min
Total time: 4 h 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Jamaican
Ingredients: 2 cups kidney beans; 1 carrot; 2 green onions; 4 sprigs thyme; 1 onion; ½ tsp black pepper; 2 red bell pepper; 4 garlic cloves; 1 tbsp allspice; 2 lb beef; 8 ½ cups water; 4 potatoes; 1 cup all-purpose flour; ¼ cup water; 1 cup coconut milk

A weekend Jamaican dinner made with beef. Ready in about 4 hours 45 minutes. Difficulty: more effort.

5 minPrep (about)
4 hr 40 minCook (about)
4 hr 45 minTotal time
4Servings
More effortDifficulty

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Ingredients

How many people?

− 4 people +

Recipe makes 4

Main ingredient

2 lb beef Shopping tip: Chuck roast or stew beef, cut in cubes.

Fresh & other

2 cups kidney beans
1 carrot
2 green onions Shopping tip: Green onions (scallions).
4 sprigs thyme Shopping tip: Fresh sprigs or dried both work (1 tsp dried = 1 tbsp fresh).
1 onion
2 red bell pepper Shopping tip: Bell pepper (UK recipes call it pepper).
4 garlic cloves
8 ½ cups water
4 potatoes
1 cup all-purpose flour Shopping tip: All-purpose flour (UK: plain flour).
¼ cup water
1 cup coconut milk

Spices & seasonings (2): black pepper, allspice

½ tsp black pepper
1 tbsp allspice

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

Wash and rinse the dried kidney beans.
Cover with water in a deep bowl.
Remember as they soak will expand to at least triple your size they were so add a lot of water to your bowl.
Soak them overnight.
Keep going for at least 2 hrs to make your cooking step go quicker.
Have your butcher cut the salted pigtail in 2 inch bits as it will be difficult to cut using an ordinary kitchen knife, wash.
Place a deep pot with water.
Bring to a boil.
Cook for 20 minutes.
Drain + rinse.
Repeat.
The goal is to make the bits of pig tails tender plus to remove most of your salt it was cured in.
Time to start the soup.
Place everything in the pot.
Cover with water.
Place on high flame to bring to a boil.
As it comes to boil, skim off any scum/froth at your top and discard.
Turn the heat down to a gentle boil and let it cook for 1 hr and 15 mins.
Basically till your beans are tender and start falling apart.
It’s now time to add your potato as fully as your coconut milk and continue cooking for 15 min.
Is a good time to start making your basic dough for the spinner dumplings.
Mix the flour and water until you have a soft/smooth dough.
Let it rest for 5 minutes.
Pinch of a tablespoon at a time.
Roll between hands to form a cigarette shape.
Add them to the pot.
Mix fully and continue cooking for another 15 min on a rolling boil.
However you can taste and adjust accordingly.
Lets recap your timing part of things you’re not confused.
Heat your base of your soup for 1 hr and 15 minute until soft.
Add the potatoes.
Cook for 15 minutes.
Add the dumplings.
Cook for a further 15 minutes.
Keep.
Do it in mind that this will thicken quite bit as it cools.
While this isn't traditional recipe.
Do it to any one specific, versions of this soup can be Africa, Latin America and found throughout the Caribbean.
Hearty bowl of this soup will give you the sleepies.
Certainly freeze the leftovers.
Heat it up another day.