Hoppin' John - Variants

Variants

Other bean and rice dishes are seen throughout the American South and the Caribbean, and are often associated with Africans in the Americas. Regional variants include the Guyanese dish "Cook-up rice", which uses black-eyed peas and coconut milk, "Hoppin' Juan," which substitutes Cuban black beans for black-eyed peas, and the Brazilian dish Feijoada, which uses black turtle beans instead of black-eyed peas.