You can make it with chicken too, my Tia Rose (deceased) use to make black molasses soup all the time. (it was very black)
One thing about it, is the taste, nothing compares to it, it is the most palatable and tastiest thing you could ever taste, I’m at lost for words to describe it!
I still do not know how the heck she made it, she had lots of chickens and ponies in the back of her house…lol
I wish I knew the recipe or could find it? (googled it to death and I come up with nothing?)