Lucky New Year's Pea Soup

photo: Pam Ziegler Lutz

Here's a recipe that's supposed to bring good luck for the new year, which would be great since we all know that most of us would love to forget 2020...

Ingredients

• 4 slices bacon 
• 1 green bell pepper, chopped
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 2 (15 ounce) cans black-eyed peas, undrained
• 2 (14.5 ounce) cans diced tomatoes, undrained
• 1 cup water
• 1 ½ teaspoons salt
• 1 ¼ teaspoons cumin
• 1 ¼ teaspoons dry mustard
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• ½ teaspoon curry powder
• ½ teaspoon pepper
• ½ teaspoon sugar

​Directions

• Step 1 Place the bacon in a skillet and cook over medium-high heat until crisp and evenly brown. Drain on paper towels. When cool, crumble into small pieces.
• Step 2 Using the same skillet, add the peppers and onion; stir and cook over medium-high heat until transparent and tender, about 5 minutes.
• Step 3 Pour the black beans, tomatoes, and water into a large pot. Stir in the peppers, onion, salt, cumin, dry mustard, chili powder, curry powder, pepper, and sugar. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium, cover, and simmer 20 to 25 minutes. Serve hot sprinkled with bacon, and other toppings of your choice.

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This recipe is from CHEFSTEFANIE at Allrecipes.com.