In her cookbook, Stock the Crock, Phyllis Good relates that she created this recipe when she was desperate to add a vegetarian dish to her Easter menu. Even the non-vegetarians loved it!

You can find additional recipes we’re featuring from the book here:

Indian Lentil Soup

Pork Salsa Stew

Creole-Style Red Beans

Excerpted from Stock the Crock by Phyllis Good. Copyright © 2017 Oxmoor House. Reprinted with permission from Time Inc. Books, a division of Time Inc. New York, NY. All rights reserved. Recipe by Dianne L.