Jamaican Red Pea Soup

Name: Jamaican Red Pea Soup
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Jamaican
Ingredients: 2 cups dried red kidney beans, soaked overnight; 500g stewing beef or salted pig's tail, cut up; 1 cup coconut milk; 300g yellow yam or sweet potato, cubed; 1 carrot, diced; 1 cup flour, for spinners; 4 sprigs thyme, 2 spring onions, 6 pimento berries; 1 Scotch bonnet pepper, whole; 3 cloves garlic, crushed

Red Peas Soup/RED PEEZ soop/

Also known as: Red Peas Soup, Kidney Bean Soup

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About this dish

A hearty Saturday soup of red kidney beans simmered with beef or pig's tail, yam, coconut milk and small flour dumplings called spinners.

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Ingredients

🫘2 cups dried red kidney beans, soaked overnight

🥩500g stewing beef or salted pig's tail, cut up

🥥1 cup coconut milk

🍠300g yellow yam or sweet potato, cubed

🥕1 carrot, diced

🌾1 cup flour, for spinners

🌿4 sprigs thyme, 2 spring onions, 6 pimento berries

🌶️1 Scotch bonnet pepper, whole

🧄3 cloves garlic, crushed

Method

Serves 2

If using salted pig's tail, boil it in fresh water for 20 minutes and drain to remove excess salt.

Simmer the beans and meat in about 2.5 litres of water for 1.5–2 hours until both are tender.

Add the coconut milk, yam, carrot, garlic, thyme, spring onion, pimento and the whole Scotch bonnet.

Mix the flour with a pinch of salt and enough water to make a firm dough, then roll small pieces between your palms into thin spinners and drop them in.

Simmer for 20–25 minutes more until the yam is soft and the soup has thickened. Remove the Scotch bonnet and season to taste.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

In Jamaica the kidney bean is called the red pea, and red pea soup is a traditional Saturday soup, thick with ground provisions and spinners.

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