Discover how to make authentic soul food at home with these delicious recipes.
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Hearty greens like these collard greens are made even more delicious with the addition of bacon and by slow-cooking them to soften the leaves.
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This combination of fried catfish and collard greens is a classic soul food recipe — perfect crunch in the fish and deliciously smothered greens.
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A vegetarian meal if you don't add pork products to the greens, these black-eyed pea cakes with collard greens are delicious.
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Southern butter beans — not to be confused with lima beans — are creamy and so delicious when slow-cooked.
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Southern cornbread is a staple in all Southern homes, and everyone has a favorite recipe. We're loving this delicious one.
Hoppin' John, a mix of black-eyed peas and rice, is a traditional side dish in soul food cookery.
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Try making these fresh black-eyed peas with ham hock if you can get your hands on fresh beans — so worth it.
Southern-style black-eyed peas — not only for eating during New Year's, but all year-round, as they are a great source of iron, vitamins and nutrients.
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Southern-style sweet potato casserole — what you'd think of as dessert, in the South is a perfectly fine side dish to accompany your pork chops and gravy.
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The perfect way to start a meal, this smoky black-eyed pea and ham soup freezes really well, so we recommend making a double batch.
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This oxtail stew is the perfect example of making do with what you have. Oxtail was considered scraps, and soul food transformed it by simmering and slow-cooking it into goodness.
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You can't forget fried chicken in all its glory.
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Steak that's battered like chicken, and you get chicken-fried steak. We're drooling.
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This chicken-sausage dirty rice would make the perfect side dish to your soul food-inspired dinner table.
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Serve this fried okra as a snack or crispy side dish to a meal.
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