Black eyed peas, collard greens and ham for the New Year!!!

We had gotten a ham on an extreme discount a few months back and put it in the deep freeze to cook for New Years Day so this morning I woke up and prepped it to cook it for tonight’s dinner. I decided to try something new this year when cooking the ham I cooked it in one of the Reynolds Kitchens cooking bags  these are often advertised for cooking turkey in and why we had a spare one lying around. I prepped the ham by cutting it to allow the glaze to get in and make it really flavorful.  The glaze I made was the juice from a can of pineapple slices (in juice only), a half cup of water, 1/4 cup of  molasses, 1/2 cup of natural sugar, 2 teaspoons of ground mustard powder, 1 teaspoon of ground garlic powder. Once mixed well I heated the ingredients in a small sauce pan. Once the ham was prepped and in the baking pan inside of the Reynolds Kitchens cooking bag that a tablespoon of flour coated the inside and the ham had the pieces of pineapple rings pressed into it with toothpicks, I poured half the glaze over the ham sealed the bag and baked in a preheated oven at 225 degrees for 2.5 hours then opened the bag and cooked for another 45 minutes with the second half poured over it. This ham came out the most tender and moist of any ham I have ever eaten.

Once the ham was cooked my dear husband stripped the meat off the bone and I took the juices and set aside for my black-eyed peas and collard greens in the instant pot.

Instant Pot Black Eyed Peas

1.5 cups of black-eyed peas

1 cup of baked ham juices

6 cups of water

2 tablespoons of garlic powder (or garlic cloves I was out 😢)

2 tablespoons of dried minced onions (I do not like cutting up fresh onions 🤣)

1/2 tablespoon of smoked paprika

1/2 teaspoon of thyme

1/2 teaspoon of cayenne pepper

1 tablespoon of butter

the ham bone 🍖

Steps

Put Instant Pot On sauté feature once hot place some butter in and then sauté the onions for a minute or so then add the ham juices and water then the spices and mix well add the ham bone and then the black-eyed peas. Then place the Instant Pot on 30 minutes high pressure. Let pressure release naturally then add the collared greens and cook for 10 minutes.