Vegan Goan Black-Eyed Peas

Goan Black-Eyed Peas
from "The Indian Slow Cooker"  book by Anupy Singla.

My mom loves this dish!  Her favorite Indian dishes are creamy kormas and milky sweets.  So I am happy that she can make a healthier version, vegan style, at home.  Like all of the recipes in The Indian Slow Cooker, this uses dried beans.  Black-eyed peas are available in the bulk section of Whole Foods.  If you are lucky enough to have a local coop, then buy them organic there.  I try to buy whatever I can organic and dried beans are cheap & easy to find.  I still haven't found a decent source of organic Whole Black Gram, Organic Urad Dal, Organic Black Chickpeas or Organic Pigeon Peas.  If anyone has some sources for these, please let me know!  I don't want to pay $5.00 a pound though (sometimes shipping gets crazy).  

Everything in the Slow Cooker.

Goan Black Eyed Peas in Crock Pot
They are much "soupier" than some of the other recipes.
Great on a cold night.
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"So Delicious" Coconut milk.
Comes in "Aseptic" containers and can be kept on your shelf until opened!

You put the wet ingredients in the Cuisinart and then put everything in the crock-pot (excluding coconut milk).  Just before the dish is finished, you pour in the Coconut milk.  I use the aseptic packages of Silk Coconut milk.  There are a many varieties of canned coconut milk, but I believe that all of the cans are lined with BPAs.  The only brand that declares their cans BPA free is Eden and they don't make coconut milk.  If I had any balls, I would cut open my own baby coconuts, but this is also what is holding me back from making some of my favorite raw desserts.

Goan Black-Eyed Peas with Coconut Milk.
Amla Chickpeas & Curried Chickpeas on plate
with Brown Basmati rice.
Like our wine glasses?
Thick little Jelly Jars.  Perfect!