Hoppin' John

Name: Hoppin' John
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Ingredients: 1 cup Sea Island, red peas; 1 , smoked ham hock, split in half vertically along bone; 1 tablespoon, table salt; 6 ounces, salt pork, rinsed, patted dry, and cut into ¾-inch pieces; ¼ cup, vegetable oil or lard; 1 cup chopped, onion; 3 , scallions, sliced ½ inch thick; 1½ cups long-grain or Carolina Gold, rice, unrinsed; 1 teaspoon, table salt; ¾ teaspoon, pepper; ¾ teaspoon, granulated garlic; ½ teaspoon, onion powder

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2023

Main Courses

Rice

Beans

Kitchen wisdom from the matriarch of Edisto Island.

SERVES4 to 6

TIME2½ hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We visited Ms. Emily Meggett at her Edisto Island, South Carolina, home and cooked through a recipe based on the hoppin’ John recipe in her cookbook, Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island (2022). This reci...

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