Instant Pot Black Eyed Peas and Ham

Here is an easy Instant Pot black eyed peas and ham recipe as well as how to make it in a crockpot too. Using dry black eyed peas and ham hocks this recipe is great to have on hand after the holidays when you have a lot of leftover ham or year round!

Ninja Foodi Black Eyed Peas

The perfect leftover ham recipe ever I tell you! 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!

Black Eyed Peas and Ham

You can really add as many seasonings as you’d like, or just keep it simple as we did in the instructions below. 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..

Pressure Cooker Black Eyed Peas and Ham Recipe

You can use just the ham hock too if that is all you have. It will lend to a lot of flavor but it is nice to have some diced ham inside too.

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. Either way it’s super flavorful and homemade in every way.

This Instant Pot black eyed peas recipe below is thicker but you can thin either one out with just some broth or water.

Easy Black Eyed Peas Recipe

We are a sucker for soups year round, and especially when it is chilly outside. Of course you can make black eyed peas and ham on the stovetop.

Ever since I bought my Instant Pot I just don’t see the need for that when you can get beans and such tender in 30-60 minutes flat without soaking at all overnight.

Follow our Crockpot black eyed peas recipe here, or make slow cooker Hoppin John using canned or frozen that are already softened.

Here’s a quick step by step but there’s a printable recipe card at the bottom too.

Instant Pot black eyed peas