This vegan Christmas Pigeon Peas Recipe uses the perfect combination of ingredients to compliment the freshness of the pigeon peas and bring out that true traditional trini Christmas flavor in the dish, the way granny used to make it.
If you ask the average person what one thing they must cook for the christmas holidays to represent the season they would most likely say pastelles, ham or turkey. For me the one thing I must make for the holiday season is fresh pigeon peas. When I was growing up we actually had a peas tree in our yard so every christmas we would get fresh peas. My mother would make us sit down and shell the peas and although I hated doing it when as I was small, now I look back at those times and appreciate that I had them.
Even though we hated doing the actual chore, if my mother decided to help us do it we would get some story about “long time” and I think all children loved hearing stories about long time so it was a good trade off.
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