Black Eyed Peas are such a cheap and FLAVORFUL side to have with your roast or hamburger steak. I love to make my black eyed peas from dried in my Instant Pot!

Our Instant Pot was a baby shower gift from a college friend and it has been such a great addition to my collection of cooking tools. Not your typical baby shower gift, but I 100% recommend and will be gifting this to new mommas in the future ðĪŠ
These peas only need to soak for about 2-3 hours beforehand, or up to overnight if that's more your style! I love how creamy these black eyed peas turn out with such minimal effort.

You can add cooked bacon pieces for extra flaavvorrr, but most of the time we opt out to keep it healthy ð
Black eyed peas get a bad rep and I can't wrap my head around it!! Try these out and you'll be hooked like we are ððŧââïļ

Instant Pot Black Eyed Peas
- ½ bag dried black eyed peas (8 oz of 16 oz bag)
- 3 cups water (for soaking)
- 2 cups water (for cooking)
- 2 teaspoons Better Than Bouillon Chicken flavor (or 2 chicken bouillon cubes)
- ½ teaspoon Tony Chachere's seasoning
- ½ teaspoon dried parsley
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 slices cooked bacon, chopped small (optional)
- Add dried peas and 3 cups of water to a bowl and let soak for 2 to 3 hours or up to overnight. You don't need to soak beans/peas super long when using the Instant Pot but I do find that it helps to soak a little.
- Drain and rinse the black eyed peas after soaking and add to Instant Pot with 2 cups of water, better than bouillon, Tony's, parsley, bay leaves, and optional bacon.
- Close and seal Instant Pot and select the bean function (20 minutes)
- Once bean function has completed, let natural release for another 20 minutes.
- Stir and then serve with fresh white rice and roast!

Tyler Jane
Black eyed peas were always just bleh to me before I tried this. So dang good! We will be making every new years now! Thanks Kait!
Amy
Growing up with a Southern raised momma - we always had black eye peas! We lived in the southwest most my life and NO ONE...I mean NO ONE gets it. You need these. You need an instapot version. Kait did it. So make em. Love em. What em. This is comfort, guys. YUM
Kait Bou
Oh, I love this and completely agree... you just NEED yummy black eyed peas!!