This Sausage & Red Peas Soup hits the spot every time. Whether it’s a cold day and you need to warm up or a difficult day and you need something warm and comforting. A bowl of strong delicious flavours filled with chunky potatoes and red peas. This was a mid week recipe for me and It was a great meal prep for a few days.

What’s in a pot of Sausage & Red Peas Soup?

As the name suggests it has just a few ingredients. Start with your favourite sausage, mine is bad dawg jerk sausage. It has a great flavour and its deliciously spicy. It can easily transform any bland food to something really amazing. Next up is the bulk of the soup. Red peas that are really nice when stewed. Irish potatoes give the soup body and make it really filling.

Soup it on Up!

So with the exception of all the filling, what’s important is the flavour of the soup. Believe it or not just some simple ingredients packs a punch. Water, vegetable stock, pimento, garlic, salt, paprika, thyme and a lot of onions.
Let’s talk about red peas for a second because it’s key to this recipe. Now that I think of it, red peas is not a major ingredient in most of our Jamaican dishes. However, and this is a big however the few dishes that we use them in are often very traditional and very popular. Therefore the consumption is really high and somewhat of a staple.

Rice and Peas. Any Jamaican will tell you this is a daily staple for most cook shops and restaurants. However at home it’s a Sunday Dinner favourite. Red peas, coconut milk, scallions, garlic, pimento, rice etc and you have the rice to rival all rice. Pair this with your favourite meat and Sunday’s have never been better.
Stewed Peas. Though this dish doesn’t specify red peas in the name, it goes without saying in Jamaica. Pressured red peas with beef and pigs tail. Add some spinners which is basically dumpling but the name speaks to how you shape them. Stew peas hits the spot for a flavourful, hearty meal. It’s definitely not diet friendly. Served with hot white rice and it’s truly amazing.
Red Peas soup. It’s safe to say that we have a big soup culture in Jamaica, one that I never really caught on to. I would hate soup Saturday’s growing up because I didn’t acknowledge soup as a meal. You can have a bowl of soup now and within an hour or two you’re hungry again. Though our soups are anything but simple, we have a lot going on. Take red peas soup for example. Red peas, chicken foot, beef, dumplings, potato, cho-cho, corn, yam, pumpkin and a Maggie soup mix could all be in one pot. With all of that I’m still hungry after a couple of hours.

So this recipe was inspired by red peas soup though I went for a lighter yet stew like version. I can’t wait for you to try it. Let’s get cooking!

Sausage and Red Peas Soup

Recipe by ChantelleeCourse: Uncategorized

Servings

servings

Prep time

minutes

Cooking time

minutes

Ingredients

2 Bad Dawg Sausage links
1 cup canned Red Peas , 15oz
8oz Vegetable stock
1 large onion chopped _{(Pantry Item)}
5 Cloves of Garlic, minced _{(Pantry Item)}
3 sprigs of Thyme _{(Pantry Item)}
6, Pimentos _{(Pantry Item)}
3 cups, Water
2 medium potatoes, diced.
1/2 tsp. All purpose _{(Pantry Item)}
1/2 tsp. Chili Powder _{(Pantry Item)}

Directions

Strip casing and cut sausage links into chunky slices. Wash, peel and dice potatoes, dice onions, mince garlic, rinse and drain peas and set aside.
In a large Dutch pot heat 1 tbsp. oil on medium. Add half the onions, garlic and all of the sausage. Add all purpose and chili powder and sauté until sausage is brown. Remove sausage from the pot and set aside. Add peas to the pot and sauté for 1-2 minutes.
Add vegetable stock, water and deglaze the pot by scraping the seasoning from the bottom. Add potatoes, thyme, pimento and the remaining onion and garlic.
Bring to a boil on medium-high and cook for 20 minutes or until the thick and potatoes are ready.
Salt to taste and return the sausage to the pot. Mix well and remove from heat.
Serve hot.

Notes

If you want it to be more stew than soup add less water.

Price Range: $1,300 JMD. (Price range based on type of supermarket, brand and season. Does not include Pantry Items and tax)

Brawta: Bad Dawg Sausage. _{(Non pantry ingredients that are leftovers for future use.)}

Eating in can be easy on the pocket yet just as fun and tasty as dining out. Enjoy!