BLACK-EYED PEAS with LOBSTER

Ingredients:

*Water or seafood broth

*Extra virgin olive oil

*Grounded black pepper

*16 oz of black eyed peas

*2 small lobster tails

*4-6 jumbo shrimps

*Fine sea salt

*1 grated tomato

*1 TBS smoked paprika

* 1 tsp of olives

* 2-3 scallops cut in smaller pieces

Additional Ingredients

*2 TBS of “sofrito” or replace “sofrito” with;

*4-7 garlic teeth grind

* 4-5 leaves cilantro (chopped)

*2 TBS finely chopped onions

*2-2.5 TBS finely chopped sweet peppers (variety of colors)

*1 tsp fresh oregano (chopped)

*OPTIONAL: 3 leaves of culantro; 1/2 tsp powder cumin

Boil the lobster tails and jumbo shrimp first. Peal the shrimp and put it aside with lobster tails.

Then make sure you have

* 1 tomato (I grate it to make it my tomato sauce, otherwise use half a can of tomato sauce)

* I use a little bit of my homemade sofrito… but you can replace by using 3 teeth of garlic, fresh oregano, fresh cilantro… cut them and smash them together.

* A spoon of paprika (for color)

* Olive oil (enough to heat up the pot)

* A handful of olives (optional)

Heat up the pot and add the oil and then the tomato sauce and “sofrito” at high heat for like 1 minute. Then add the paprika. And the scallops for another minute.

* Add one can of black-eyed peas (I drain them first)

* Add some seafood broth (enough to cover all the seafood when added later) and let it boil.

* Add sea salt for taste

Then add the jumbo shrimp, and lobster tail and let it cook at medium heat.