Sloppy Black Eyed Peas are perfect for lunch or dinner. It's a great twist on a classic for a healthier, meat-free Sloppy Joe recipe.
This recipe is Vegan, Soy-Free, Oil-Free, and can be made GF as well. Plus it's just plain delicious and will make you taste buds super happy!
My friend Kathy Hester is an amazing cook. She's also a very talented cookbook author. Yesterday I featured Kathy's recipe for Lentil Quinoa Bolognese Sauce from her cookbook, The Great Vegan Bean Book.
Kathy blogs at Healthy Slow Cooking. It's such a wonderful site filled with so many recipes that are sure to be a hit in your household. I love this gal, and her cookbooks. Her recipes are much like she is, approachable. That's a good word when it comes to people, and recipes.
I like a recipe that you don't have to jump through hoops to make. I found the ingredients for this one easily, which is saying something considering I seem to live in the culinary black hole.
Today I'm featuring another one of Kathy's wonderful recipes. This recipe is from her Vegan Slow Cooking Cookbook.
This particular recipe for Vegan Sloppy Black-Eyed Peas really caught my attention. I knew it would be a hit with hubs and the hooligans. I was not wrong. These sloppy joes went over like gangbusters here. They were scraping the bottom of the slow cooker to get it all. Now there's a sign of a good recipe.
Honestly, look at these sloppy sandwich. Don't you just want to sink your teeth into it? I'd let you but I might have gobbled it all up already. You need Kathy's cookbook. Seriously.
About Kathy's Cookbook:
When you buy her cookbook you're going to want to check out the Green Beans in Black Bean Sauce with Tofu and the Wacky Cincinnati Chili.
All of the recipes we tried were gobbled up and demolished in minutes here. If people clean their plates in under 3 minutes in this household I know it's a winner.
I loved this cookbook, Vegan Slow Cooking so very much. Just like her other cookbooks, The Great Vegan Bean Book and Oatrageous Oatmeals.
The recipes are easy to follow and the ingredients are simple to find. You can adapt the recipes to your own taste.
I love the weight of the book, it's not too heavy or awkward to hang on to. It's beautifully illustrated with lots of photos.
Kathy explains recipe variations really well. I am a slow cooker fanatic so this book was a huge hit for me. It's a keeper.
Disclosure: Kathy provided me a copy of her book, for free, but there was no other compensation for this review. Y’all know me, if I didn’t like something I’d straight up tell you that. This is one I not only liked, but loved.
MORE DINNER IDEAS (not vegan):
- Slow Cooker Short Rib Ragu
- Easy Cheesy Pasta Bake with Sausage and Peppers
- Sloppy Joe Casserole
- Pizza Pull Apart Bread
- Slow Cooker Huli Huli Chicken
- 30 Minute Chicken Vegetable Skillet Pasta
- Slow Cooker Chicken Fajitas
- Smoked Bacon Macaroni and Cheese
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Vegan Sloppy Black-Eyed Peas
Equipment
Ingredients
For the Morning Ingredients:
- 2 cups water
- ⅓ cup dry black-eyed peas
- ⅓ cup carrots chopped
- ⅙ cup millet
- 2 tablespoons bell pepper minced
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 teaspoon Cajun seasoning
- ⅛ teaspoon liquid smoke to taste
For the Evening Ingredients:
- 1 cup greens (collard, kale, etc) minced
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon white pepper
- 1 package buns for serving (GF)
Instructions
In the Morning:
- Add all of the morning ingredients to the slow cooker. Cook on low setting for about 7 to 9 hours.
In the Evening:
- About 30 minutes before you wish to serve this you need to add the greens and tomato paste. Cover and allow to cook for the remaining 30 minutes. (I left mine on for about an hour as I was multi-tasking)
- Right before serving add the salt and pepper, along with more cajun seasoning if desired.
- Pile the sloppy mixture on your buns.
- Serve with a big old happy and sloppy smile!
Notes
Nutrition
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Maureen | Orgasmic Chef
I might get slammed for this but when I read free this and free that and free something else I wonder what it does have in it and can it possibly be good. You've shown me that I'm wrong. 🙂
Kim Beaulieu
I tend to be the same way Maureen so I can totally relate. This one is SO good.
John@Kitchen Riffs
I like this recipe! Really fun, healthy, and looks awfully tasty. Really nice texture on that 2nd picture - you ever get lights? Kinda looks like you've been playing. 😉 Anyway, super post - thanks.
Kim Beaulieu
Thanks John. This is one hearty dish for a vegan recipe. We loved it.
I did not have lights when I took this. Just lucked out with timing. Since then I bought utility lights on someone's recommendation but they are hard to control (harsh) and get way too hot. Need to find a better option.
suzanne Perazzini
Now, that is a burger and a half. Sounds like a great cookbook.
Kim Beaulieu
Thanks Suzanne.
The Café Sucre Farine
Kim, I think it's difficult to make something like sloppy joes look good and enticing, really difficult, but you've done an amazing job! I don't use my slow cooker much but I did make a wonderful Root Beer Pulled Pork in it this Fall.
Kim Beaulieu
Thanks so much Chris. I was pretty happy with how the photos turned out. Pure luck, right time of the day I think. Some days the stars just align.
We love root beer pulled pork. My kids have grown up on it. You think after this long my daughter would get over me stealing a can or two of her beloved barq's root beer to make it. But at 21 she still gives me the hairy eyeball every time I reach in the cabinet. Then she apologizes while she's scarfing the pulled pork sandwiches. lol
charj
Currently, my favorite slow cooker meal is chili. And yes, Kathy's Wacky Cincinnati Chili is really good.
Kim Beaulieu
I freaking love chili. I love Kathy. She's the bomb.
Janet T
I like to make stew in my slow cooker.
Kim Beaulieu
I love stew too. It's comfort food at its finest.
The Mom Chef ~ Taking on Magazines One Recipe at a Time
You know, you're right. I have everything but the millet in my pantry. I wonder if I could get away with bulgur wheat instead. Or quinoa. It looks amazing.
Kim Beaulieu
I think this would be cool with quinoa. You should totally try that.
Ashley Bee @ Quarter Life Crisis Cuisine
Even as a meat eater, these look awfully tasty!
Kim Beaulieu
I know right. I'm a huge carnivore but this is really filling.
Emily @ Life on Food
Short ribs are my favorite thing to cook up in a slow cooker. So decadent but so easy in a slow cooker.
Kim Beaulieu
Short ribs are flipping amazing. I don't make them enough.
Sally Tews
My Chili Recipe~great for the family gathering.
Kim Beaulieu
Chil is perfect for family gatherings.
Coco in the Kitchen
AM vs PM. You're such a clever girl, KimBee. I'm nuts about sloppy jibes. They've been my cafeteria fav since I was in elementary school? And thus vegan version, I'm excited to try! xoxo
Kim Beaulieu
Ha, thanks. I love me some sloppy food.
Stephanie @ Eat. Drink. Love.
What a great twist on the sloppy joe!
Kim Beaulieu
Thanks Stephanie.
Ramona W
What a fun take on sloppy joe. Looks yummy. 🙂
Kim Beaulieu
Thanks so much Ramona.
Janet
I can't wait to try this in my slow-cooker. Beans are my favorite thing to make.
Kim Beaulieu
Hope you got a chance to make it. I love beans too. So classic.
Tracy
Right now it's applesauce. I love to make apple-cinnamon oatmeal in the slow-cooker, and I almost always cook my dried beans that way, too..
Kim Beaulieu
I love applesauce in the slow cooker. It's delightful.
Tracy
I usually just use the slow cooker for chili, I really need a good cookbook for recipes so I can use it more often.
Kim Beaulieu
Nowadays you can do almost anything in them. They rock.
Tracy
I like/follow Healthy Slow Cooking on Facebook.
Kim Beaulieu
Thanks Tracy.
Allison
HI- how many servings does the sloppy joe recipe make? It looks like a very small amount. Would you suggest quadrupling it (eg 2/3 cups of millet total) to make it more family-size? Thanks!
Kim Beaulieu
It is small as it's a cookbook with recipes meant for two. I doubled mine, but if your family is large or big eaters I would definitely amp it up. This serves 2 people. I made some and froze it. It freezes nicely if you do too big of a batch. Hope that helps. Happy Wednesday. xx
allison
Thank you! I'll definitely double it. (I thought the 1/6 cup was an odd amount!).
Nikki
baked potatoes!
Kim Beaulieu
Great thing to cook in one.
Pam
I cook in my crock pot all the time, but my favorite thing to make would have to be a whole chicken. YUM!
Kim Beaulieu
I love making whole chickens in mine. So good. We do that a lot when we want to go to the barn but still have a nice dinner.