New Year 2024: Hoppin' Johns Recipe!

check it out folks let me just say Happy New Year's we gonna bring it in right and I'mma show you how to make hopping Johns look at that right there we okay so look now let's just go over some of these ingredients I'm just going to do a fly by so you guys can see them you know what I mean look we got some you know some seasonings right there obviously you guys can see that's the bay leaf you know what I mean right here we got pepper and listen I'm going to give you guys some options cuz I'm using you know better than buan we got our veggies right here you guys can see we got broth excuse me that's stock and this right here I want to focus a little bit on right here and that's because of that's my Bacon Fat now I'm going to be doing it in this Dutch oven right here now look I'm using some fresh I already soaked them the night before you guys can hot flash them I'll let you guys know what that is if you don't know already but I've already clean sorted soaked them and let let them be okay folks so look I'm going to start you know making a little bit of room right here right taking my seasoning cuz look first thing we want to do is because I elected to use you know regular beans right these are regular dyed beans I soaked them you know cleaned them did all that and soaked them overnight right so I'm going use this so what I want to do is I'm going to move everything and get this out the way so I'm going to be using my pot right so this is what I'm going to do because I had the dry beans and I soaked them right we want these to still be soft right so let me get everything in the inside like that now let me show it to you what I want to do is I want to cover them and I'm going guess I'm going to cover them maybe up to about 1 in above right okay so you can see I got it you know covered right I'm going to take a little bit of this better than buan I'll probably give it like about a heaping you know tablespoon so what I'm doing here I'm just mixing this in the inside cuz I'm going to put this on the stove right and what I want to do is I want to get it bring it up to a boil then I'm going to set it up to like a simmer and then we going to let it cook for about 40 minutes right we going to give this a little bit of a head start okay so listen I didn't you know drain my beans but I want you guys to pay attention right here I'm going to go ahead and put this right here so you guys can see look I saved myself about a cup of my you know my water right so don't forget we put the better than buan in there that's the juices and everything that has mixed along with the black beans and we got those right you know our black ey peas then I've already hit them in the CER those are ready to go right so first thing we're going to do is put some heat underneath the bottom of this you know you guys can use whatever you want to regular pot whatever you know my tool of choice is always going to be a Dutch oven I'm a fan of the cast iron right so I'm going to take my top off and then the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to start with my bacon fat right so I'll put this here I don't know if you guys can see it you guys should be saving this all the time anyway you know what I mean for those of you guys that don't I could have used some infused olive oil that works too you know what I mean so I'm just going to go ahead and just put in about a a heaping you know tablespoon that's about all we need folks now as our Bacon fat is melting you know what I mean I'm going to go ahead and move my rice off to the side this was just a rib of uh celery I'm going to go ahead and grab some of this here and I'm just going to go ahead and dice it down now I'm going let you guys know this now if you look at this and you see that I went a little bit on the small side right that's because we want to do it for the flavor folks you know what I mean so this is all I'm doing as I'm just dicing it keeping it a little bit on the small side you know what I mean I still want to see it cuz presentation is everything right okay folks now we going to do the exact same thing but this time we going to go ahead and do it with our green you know bell peppers now if you guys want to add yellow on there and do that whole Trio you can too this right here is where it gets customizable now when I looked up to like what makes it hop and Johns the only common denominator I can find is everybody says you know you got to have that rice but you can put whatever I almost wanted to put some ground uh you know breakfast sausage or some kind of mild Italian sausage inside of that but then we starting to look like dirty rice you know what I mean so I just said I'm going to go ahead and just keep it like this for this video only and uh you guys let me know what would you put in your hopping Johns I can see right now I see a little smoke coming off that's telling me that's ready so first thing I'm going to do is I'mma to add my onions right now don't forget all of your veggies that's nothing but almost like pure water just enough Integrity To Hold Your structure but when I tell you it's a lot of water involved there a lot of water involved so you'll see it be careful so you don't catch no you know no splatter right I don't want to sauté and get them all super soft you know what I mean we just want to go ahead and get them going just like you going to see like I said I always start with my onion but I did my onion so fine this all could have went in the same time now what I'm going to do is just going to move this around let everything marry together we want to get some of that bacon you know grease to touch all of it look at that right there oh my goodness so I want you guys to pay attention right here look you see that color down there that's all of this starting to bleed into the fat and look at that that's producing something real nice folks it's really about that flavor right so we don't want to take it all the way down I don't want it to become like super translucent where I can't even see my color right but you can see that that right there we working with something great now I'mma bring my rice in the play and don't forget the full ingredient list is on my website now you guys I've gotten great feedback I thank you guys for uh taking the time to go by there taking a look you know what I mean cuz don't forget all of the recipes are now on there anything that I release and tons and tons of more that I haven't even made videos for are going on there also so use the tool smoking and Grilling with a.com that's WI tab.com so I let this cook for about you know with the rice in there just kind of like a little brown up little I don't know I don't know what you call it usually I brown it but you know we got that we toast it anyway so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and add you know my stock right I'm going to let this come back up you know to a boil let me see I'm going to go ahead and rust this a little bit now that we got some liquid in here but this is a whole lot of flavor folks and this right here is where you want to be cuz now you can start to you can smell it you know where it's going and as we waiting for this to come up you know on boil you remember these y'all see that let me go ahead and get you some Focus you see that now we dump it okay so now you can see we coming up to a boil again right this what we want all right I'm going to go ahead and trade this right now for my my rubber spaser right that's cuz I like I can go on here on the edges you know and get all of my seasoning down here all right so we'll just move that around just like you see now I'm going to go ahead and leave this here right why because now it's time to go ahead and introduce our black ey peas okay so you guys got it play by play our beans are nice and ready you know what I mean to join this collaboration [Music] folks and now I'm getting ready to you see what I'm doing it's all starting to make sense to you now but we got to let that those that Rice cook so it probably take about 15 20 minutes you know what I mean for it to you know get to where we want it to be and then don't forget I save some of this right so now we going to add this in here too this is just nothing but flavor you know it come from the beans you know so what we want to do is we want to just continue to cook this down and I just saw something jump out of the pot you know what I mean and we'll let this come up to a simmer and we going to let this simmer until we don't have anymore you want to keep it nice and moist but we to cook what we want to do is we want to cook some of this liquid out we want our rice to absorb all of that but that right there folks is a great look for hopping John's okay folks look I just turned it off I stirred it you know mix it up you want to make sure like when you're using a a pot you got that burner under that fire underneath the bottom that it doesn't you know burn the bottom right so I constantly come in I know I'm letting a little heat out but I don't want nothing to stick right so I want you to take a look at that right there can you see that right there we that right there is a whole lot of flavor right so one of the things that I always say you know what I mean we got to preach you know and I I try to preach to everybody look we taste as we go I don't know if I had showed you guys when I put the big leaf in there but I put the big leaf in there you know what I mean and got it I've already tasted it I don't want to fake no funk I can tell you guys right now this right here is fire okay folks now we going to go ahead and put some of this in our Bowl I'll just keep it down here so you guys can see it oh my goodness see we got a little bay leaf so you guys just seen it listen only thing that's missing right now which I got in the oven right now and that's my uh you know my cornbread muffins right I got so many cornbread all of them over the top will level up your game all of that right so go ahead search my page and get it I'll leave a couple link to this in this video but right now I'm not F to over talk and I'm going to show you guys just one more time let me just get bring this in the focus one more time look at that right there you see that right there we now let me put it back on me right enjoy now that right there got a little heat to it I ain't going to lie to you listen when I first you know opened the top up stirred it up a little bit and was looking at it I tasted it right I decided to add just about a tablespoon and a half or something like that of Creo kit right I put that in there and that right there just made this I don't know why this is not jumping off at the top this right here is going to separate all the Hop and John from all of them now don't forget the full recipe will be on you know downloadable and printable on my website right smoking and drilling wab.com now with that being said listen try this talk to me down in the comment section below you know it's fire right cuz it got the Holy Trinity in anyway and don't forget we started out with that little bacon grease now with that being said listen if you're new to my channel let me take your time to say thank you for watching this video don't forget to like smash that subscribe button and again folks happy New Year and guess what I'm out [Music] [Music] peace