Stew Peas And Rice

Total Time: 11 hrs Preparation Time: 10 hrs Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 lb red kidney beans
• 1 lb stewing beef
• 1/4 lb salt beef
• 1/2 lb flour
• 2 tablespoons salt
• 2 stalks scallions
• 2 sprigs thyme
• 2 ounces cooking oil
• 3 pints water

Recipe

• 1 soak the salt beef overnight (included in prep time), this will stop the stew from tasting too salty.
• 2 wash red kidney beans and remove discolored beans or foreign matter. in a 2-quart stock pot, add beef products and beans.
• 3 cook beans and beef until they are soft (this will take some time; add water as needed).
• 4 while the other ingredients are cooking, you will have to make the little dumplings called spinners.
• 5 put flour in a large bowl and add a little water. knead flour into dough, adding water as necessary, like you’re making bread.
• 6 pinch dough into small pieces, about 2â€? in diameter. place pieces of dough into bowl and let sit for awhile.
• 7 in the meantime, check on the beans in the pot to see if they are soft. if they are, reduce the fire to medium.
• 8 with your palms facing each other, roll a piece of dough between them until the dough looks like a big piece of spaghetti.
• 9 then form the dough so that the middle is wide and the top and bottom are small. this is a spinner. the length of the spinner (dough) should be no more that 4â€? though. repeat this process for all the pieces.
• 10 add all the spinners to the pot of stew and cover the pot. let the spinners cook for about 5 minutes.
• 11 add scallions, thyme, black pepper, and cooking oil. cook for 3 minutes then taste the stew.
• 12 if it taste the way you like it…mix a solution of flour and water to thicken the stew, then let it simmer for about 10 minutes.
• 13 this is usually served with rice.