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Red Peas Soup with Salt Beef Recipe (Jamaican Style)
Serves 4
Prep Time 30 mins
Cook Time 40 mins
Ingredients
- 1 pound salt beef
- 1 pound red kidney peas (red beans)
- 3 Seeds pimento
- 1/2 pocket cock soup mix small piece pumpkin
- 6 liters water (maybe more)
- 1 medium-size carrot
- 2 cloves garlic (crushed)
- 2 stalks scallion
- 1 pound yellow yam (peeled, washed, sliced)
- 1 pound sweet potatoes (peeled, washed, sliced)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 small Irish potatoes
- 1 medium-size green scotch bonnet pepper
- 1 sprig fresh green thyme
- 2 sachet coconut milk powder or use this method
- 1 pound all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Soak the Red Peas and salt beef overnight.
- Pour water into a large pot, add red peas, garlic, pimento seeds, and salt beef cover pot and bring to boil until peas and salt beef is softened or cooked.
- Peel Irish potatoes, carrot and pumpkin, wash then diced them.
- Cover pot and allow vegetables to cook. prepare the dough with the flour in the meantime.
- Peel sweet potatoes and yellow yam
- Wash, slice, or chunk then add to the pot.
- Add coconut milk to the pot, cover, and allow to simmer for twenty minutes. Add dumplings (Spinners) to the pot (make them small) then add a cock soup mix. Stir and simmer for ten minutes.
- Wash scallion, thyme, and pepper, then add to the pot.
- Cover pot and continue to simmer over moderate to low flame, stir every three minutes until soup becomes thick. add salt to taste.
Serves in a 16oz cup CI$7.00
Serves in a 32oz cup CI$10.00
