In good taste…A vegetarian’s delight: Stew-peas

Stew-peas with pig tails and dumplings (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

 

 

All across the Caribbean you can find a dish of stew-peas. Generally, it is made of red beans or kidney beans. In the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, the pinto beans are more regularly used.

Stew-peas on its own is a dish packed with protein and a vegetarian’s delight. Add some pieces of salted pork or beef and you’ve got yourself a bowl of stew-peas that you can become rather selfish about. Just kidding.

While you can make stew-peas with canned beans, that certain something that makes stew-peas so delectable would be lost. The texture of the stew itself would be different and that of the