Purple Hull Peas Recipe 🍲🍖🧅|🧄🥒😀Frozen Hull Peas With Ham Hocks on the Stove👨‍🍳

My purple hull peas recipe is easy and delicious! By starting with frozen purple hull peas and cooking them with ham hocks on the stove, you can make a fantastic southern-style meal that you and your family will love. While these peas both look and taste similar to black eye peas, purple hull peas are creamier and milder, so they're worth a try all on their own. If you want to learn how to make frozen hull peas with ham hocks on the stove, this recipe video is for you!

As with my other old-fashioned bean and pea recipes, I started my purple hulls peas recipe by using a homemade vegetable stock to simmer ham hocks to make a stock. If you use storebought vegetable stock, be sure to use a no-sodium version since ham hocks will give the broth more than enough salt.

After making the ham hock broth, I then added chopped onion and garlic and let the broth come to a boil again before adding the frozen purple hull peas. It's important to not add too much water to the pot before adding the purple hull peas since they'll displace water when you add then, raising the water level and possibly causing the pot to overflow if it has too much water.

At this point I also added onion soup mix, a secret ingredient that many southern-style cooks add to soups, stews, and roasts. You could add garlic powder, onion powder, and black pepper, but I didn't think these peas needed anything. I think you could add whatever you want--but no salt since the smoked ham will give these peas more than enough salt.

Near the end of the cooking time, I added extra ham from a ham shank I had leftover from the holidays. While this isn't necessary, the extra ham adds not only flavor but also meat, making a bowl of these purple hull peas feel more like a complete meal. If you don't have any leftover ham from Easter, Thanksgiving, Mother's Day, or another holiday, use diced ham steak as a substitute.

I cooked the frozen purple hull peas on medium-high heat, uncovered, for 1.5 hours. Purple hull peas cook faster than pinto, black, or other beans, so keep that in mind if you're making cornbread, rice, biscuits, or some other side dish.

Although some people add 1/8 teaspoon of baking soda to maintain the color, I don't think it's necessary. These purple hull peas turned out just fine with minimal ingredients: the secret, in my opinion, is the flavorful vegetable stock (with bay leaf), plenty of chopped aromatics, and the smoked ham hocks and extra ham.

Honestly, I was pleased with how my frozen purple hull peas recipes turned out. They were very good--very similar to black eye peas. I think I might like black eye peas a bit more since they have a more pronounced flavor, but some southern chefs absolutely love purple hull peas, so some people might think differently.

All in all, this dish was a success. If you like black eye peas but want to try something different, this recipe is for you. 🍲🍖🧅🧄🥒😀👨‍🍳

Purple Hull Peas Recipe Ingredients
24 oz frozen purple hull peas (684g)
3/4 lb ham hock (340g)
1/2 lb extra ham (225g)
1/2 lb onion, chopped (225g)
5 cloves garlic, chopped
1 oz packet onion soup mix (28.5g)
extra water (as needed)

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