RED PEAS SOUP
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups kidney beans canned or soaked overnight
- 2 pig tails
- 1 carrot diced
- 1 medium sweet potato boniato cut into small cubes
- 8 pimento berries
- ½ medium onion chopped
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1 scallion finely chopped
- About 10 sprigs thyme
- 1 hot pepper seeded
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 ½ tsp salt
- 8 cups water + ¼ cup water
- 1 cup flour
- Pinch of salt
Instructions
- To make the soup, boil pigtails in water to remove the salt then repeat process twice, using fresh water each time.
- In a large pot add beans, pigtails cut into bit sized pieces, carrot, sweet potato, pimento, onion, garlic, scallion, thyme, hot pepper, black pepper and salt and bring to a boil. Simmer until the peas are tender and a bit mushy.
- To make spinners place flour, salt and water in a bowl and mix to form a stiff dough then pinch off small pieces of dough and roll between palms to form an elongated spinner.
- Add spinners to soup and then cook for an additional 10 minutes