Directions: |
Directions:Soak dried beans overnight.. Pour off the water, rinse the beans and add a half gallon of fresh water to the beans. Add half of the onion, green onion, green pepper, thyme and celery. Add all of the ginger, garlic and orange zest to the beans. Simmer the beans on a medium fire for 2 hours.
Add salt and pepper to taste.
While the beans are cooking wash and cut up the pig tails. The pieces can be any size. Boil the salt pig tails and replace the water with fresh water three times to get the majority of the salt out. Add the smoked neck bones to the third boil so they can get some of the salty taste from the pig tail. Taste to make sure you have gotten rid of enough salt for your liking and add the meat to the simmering beans. Put the flame on low, cover the pot tightly and let cook for another thirty minutes. While you are waiting peel , wash, and cut up your provision ( potato, sweet potato etc) If you are using all of the provisions you can cook them separately in salted water and add them to the finished soup or you can cook them in the soup. Just know that they take differing amounts of time to cook and add them in order ...sweet potato, three minutes later Dasheen, Yam and Tania, then after another three minutes add the other half of the onion, green onion, thyme, and green pepper.
Make 10 or so dumplings and add them to the simmering soup along with the white potato.
Dumplings: Mix the flour, salt and sugar together and add water in small increments until you create a soft dough. Flour your hands. Pinch off enough dough to create a golf ball sized ball of dough. Flatten the ball in your hands and use the side of your hand to flatten into a large cookie shape and drop the dumplings into the soup as you make them. You can make your dumplings any shape or size you wish.
After 30 more minutes add sugar to the soup if you prefer or not if you don't. Ladle some into a bowl and enjoy! |
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