Here is an easy black eyed peas and ham hocks recipe in pressure cooker made with dry black-eyed peas and NO soaking required. You can make as a leftover ham recipe too after the holidays!
Ok we are back with a crockpot and Instant Pot black eyed peas and ham recipe! No matter what method you use this comes out hearty and is really cheap to make too. If you have a pressure cooker at home we have this + 101+ Instant Pot recipes to choose from.
Ninja Foodi Black Eyed Peas and Ham
Make it in your Crockpot Express, Ninja Foodi or IP. These aren’t just ordinary peas, they have luck in that bag too. 😉 If it is near New Years Eve you might want to make this because it’s tradition. They’re pretty amazing year round too though.
We are going to focus on Instant Pot black eyed peas today but will share other methods of cooking as well. I will say using a pressure cooker to cook dry beans in general is your best bet. You can get them super tender in very little time and there is no soaking required really.
We started using dry beans in our pressure cooker first when we made the most amazing no soak Instant Pot baked beans. Then went on to make pressure cooker bean soup. Now we just can’t stop cooking from scratch because it’s so easy!
Should dry black-eyed peas be soaked?
Not if using a pressure cooker, we don’t with our Instant Pot Hoppin John either. These instructions use dried peas that have just been rinsed to remove debris and in less than an hour they will become perfectly tender.
Can you use canned black eyed peas?
I mean you can use canned and you won’t need to cook it much at all. In that case I would cut the ham off the bone as much as possible and throw that in with the other ingredients, cans don’t need to be drained. You could cut down the cook time to only 10 minutes just to get the meat tender and meld the flavors together.
When do you add the ham hocks?
Leftover meat or whole ham hocks will lend to a lot of flavor. You will want to add these at the beginning so they have a lot of time to get fork tender where the meat falls off the bone! I find you can make it two ways, as a kind of black eyed peas soup and a thicker version where it is more like a baked beans consistency with ham in it.
If you want to know the best way of how to cook ham hocks this is it. Just throw them in first with the other items around them. Cut off meat at the end and discard bones etc.. Then keep it thicker or thin out with just some broth or water.
How Long to Cook Black Eyed Peas and Ham Hocks in Pressure Cooker
You would want to dice your oven baked ham leftovers into bite size pieces if you aren’t using a ham hock (which is recommended for the best flavor overall). From there you just add all ingredients into the pot and cook for just 30 minutes!! When done you want to naturally release the steam a bit to keep the meat as tender as possible so it literally falls off the bone when you lift the lid.
This is faster than our Crockpot black eyed peas recipe or slow cooker Hoppin John but with the same result so why wouldn’t you make it quicker??!!
Of course you can make cabbage and black eyed peas too if you wanted to include a vegetable in the mix.
Black Eyed Peas and Ham Hocks in Pressure Cooker Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 16 oz black eyed peas, dry beans
- 1 cup ham hock, or 1.5 c. diced ham
- 2 cans diced tomatoes, 10-14 oz cans, petite diced is best
- 32 oz chicken broth
- 1 stalk celery
- 1 pinch salt, to taste
Instructions
- All ingredients to pressure cooker. Close lid and steam valve.
- Set Instant Pot to pressure, high, for 30 minutes.
- Do a natural release for 10 minutes, release steam and enjoy!
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Made this recently and it was fantastic! Great taste, quick and easy to get into the IP and very hearty!
Oh good
I made this tonight with seasoned ground meat garlic onions and bell peppers. So good. These pressure cookers are what’s up