Home Taste Blackeye Beans

Black-eyed beans (or black-eyed peas) are one of West Africa's most important legumes, cultivated across the region for thousands of years. In Nigeria, they're the star ingredient in akara (bean cakes) and moin moin (steamed bean pudding) — two dishes that define Nigerian breakfast culture. In the American South, they carry African culinary traditions brought during the diaspora, eaten on New Year's Day for good luck.