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Soups ~ Pigtail Soup w/Red Peas (Red Kidney Beans) recipe
Traditional Jamaican red peas soup with pig’s tail, sweet potato, and coconut milk.
The key ingredients to make the Jamaican red peas soup are red peas, water, coconut milk, and either pig’s tail. This recipe is made by using dry red peas or Red kidney beans (can) which have to be soaked overnight in water. Similar ingredients to Chicken Saturday soup but a little different, and very similar to Red pea stew/Beef Stew, however like many Caribbean dishes, dependent on where and who you were raised by, Jamaican or Caymanian, this dish has many different names!
Ingredients
1/2 lb Pigs tail
1 cup red peas or 1 can Red Kidney Beans
(If dry Kidney Red Beans then rinse the peas first and then soak in clean water overnight, do not throw away reddish dye water as this gives the soup its color.)
1/2 cup coconut milk
1 Large Irish potato, peeled, washed, cut into chunks
1 large sweet potato, peeled, washed, cut into chunks
1 small coco (Malanga) peeled, washed, cut into chunks to the thickened soup 1 lb flour (all-purpose)
A pinch of salt
1 stalk scallion (Green Onion)
1 sprig green thyme
1 whole hot Scotch or Habanero pepper
2 cloves garlic
Six pimento seeds
6 cups of water
1 cock soup mix (optional)
Instructions
1. Wash pig’s tail with fresh tap water, twice. To remove the excess salt from the pig’s tail, boil in water on high heat for 4 minutes, discard water and repeat the steps one more time. Rinse pig’s tail with tap water. The excess salt has now been removed.
2. Wash the red peas. In a large pot, put 2 cups of water, pig’s tail, garlic, and pimento. Put the pot on high heat, cover, and bring to a boil. At this point, the peas will float to the top of the water, pour 4 cups of water into the pot to sink the peas. Cook until the pig’s tail and peas are partially cooked. The cooking time depends on the texture of the peas and the pig’s tail. (Approx. 1 hour on medium heat) After checking one of the peas with a spoon or fork and see if it’s semi-soft if it does not then keep boiling until its semi soft and add more hot water to the pot if needed.
3. When the peas and pig’s tail is partially cooked, add the Irish and sweet potatoes, coco, scallion, thyme, and whole hot pepper. Cover pot and boil for 15 minutes. In a bowl, add the flour and a pinch of salt, use a small amount of water to knead flour into a dough, cover and set aside. This is to make your dumplings or spinners.
4. At this time, the water should reduce to less than half, add the coconut milk. Make some small round dumplings or if you rather spinners, make the long-shaped and add to the pot, stir. Add the flavor from the cock soup mix, discard the noodles. Lower heat and simmer the soup for 15 minutes while stirring occasionally. Remove soup from heat when thickens. If you wish, remove whole hot pepper and pimento seeds. Serve hot.
16oz cup CI$7.00 and 32oz is CI$12.00
