Description
Whip up a big bowl of this fun, colorful, and endlessly adaptable Cowboy Caviar for your next barbecue or potluck – packed with healthy black-eyed peas, vegetables, and beans for good luck any time of year!
Ingredients
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- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup sugar or to taste, see notes
- 1/4 cup white wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 pound Roma tomatoes seeded and diced
- 1 (15 ounce) can black-eyed peas drained and rinsed
- 1 (15 ounce) can black beans drained and rinsed
- 1 (11 ounce) can super sweet corn, drained (see notes)
- 1 red onion diced
- 1/2 cup diced green bell pepper
- 1/2 cup diced red bell pepper
- 1 cup chopped cilantro or parsley, from 1 bunch
Instructions
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In a large bowl, whisk together the olive oil, sugar, white wine vinegar, chili powder, and salt.
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Add tomatoes, black-eyed peas, beans, corn, red onion, and bell peppers. Stir to combine.
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Stir in cilantro. Cover and chill until serving time.
Notes
- Regular canned sweet corn or frozen corn (about 3/4 cup, or the whole 15-ounce can) can be substituted for the extra sweet corn.
- For a milder onion flavor, substitute a bunch of green onions for the red onion, or use one sweet onion.
- Instead of using 1/2 cup each of chopped red and green bell peppers, you can substitute a single bell pepper.
- While Midwest folks (including myself!) love the sweetness in this recipe (it’s a Wisconsin thing!), feel free to adjust the sugar to your taste. If 1/4 cup sounds like too much, start with 1 tablespoon and add more to taste. A couple of readers found it too sweet, and that breaks my heart! But hey, you can always add more vinegar and salt to try to salvage it. This is just how we love it in America’s Dairyland.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Category: Appetizer, salad
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 13 servings
- Calories: 194 kcal
- Sugar: 8g
- Fat: 9.8g
- Carbohydrates: 23.3g
- Protein: 5.1g
Keywords: beans,corn, pappers