Jamaican red peas soup.
You can cook Jamaican red peas soup using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Jamaican red peas soup
- You need 3/4 lb of pig tail (cut in pieces).
- It's 1/2 lb of stew beef (cut in pieces).
- It's 3/4 lb of Red peas.
- It's 1 1/2 pack of grace cock soup.
- Prepare 1/2 lb of flour.
- Prepare 4 tbs of cornmeal.
- It's 1/2 lb of yam.
- Prepare 1/2 lb of sweet potato.
- Prepare of pimento seeds.
- Prepare 2 stalks of escallion.
- Prepare 1 sprig of thyme.
- Prepare 1 of green scotch bonnet pepper.
- Prepare 1/2 lb of pumpkin.
- Prepare 1 of small dasheen (to thicken soup).
- You need 1 pk of Kendel coconut powder.
- It's 2 of pegs garlic.
- Prepare 10 of pimento seeds.
Jamaican red peas soup step by step
- Rinse pig's tail and beef with vinegar and water..
- Boil pig tail for about 5 mins., to get rid of excess salt..
- 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..
- 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 :)).
- Remove from heat and allow the cooker to cool, then open. remove meat if they are already tender..
- 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..
- Mix the coconut cream in 1 cup warm water and add to pot.
- 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..
- Stir regularly to prevent sticking..
- Remove from heat, and enjoy!.