Cowboy Caviar isn’t fishy – it’s an easy and delicious dip or salad using lots of canned beans and fresh veggies. It’s delicious on its own, with tortilla chips, or as a side dish. Texas Caviar is perfect for a summer bbq or potluck!
Cowboy caviar is a perfect year-round recipe. This black bean salad is perfect as a side dish with dinner and lunches, or as a nice appetizer. It’s easy to take with you – pack it up as a lunch or keep it in the fridge for lunches all week.
Easy-peasy to make, most of the ingredients come from a can and require minimal chopping, these ingredients surely won’t break the bank. This is the perfect easy cowboy caviar recipe – you’re going to love it!
How to make Cowboy Caviar
- The bulk of the salad is made up with black beans, black-eyed peas, and corn. I use the canned versions of them – just make sure to drain and rinse.
- Traditionally it also has tomatoes (either canned or chopped Roma tomatoes). For crunch you can add green bell pepper or celery too.
- If you want to use fresh corn kernels, you can. Or thawed frozen works too.
- All you have to do is stir all the ingredients together and then add the dressing, which can be store-bought. It’s best to use a vinaigrette-based salad dressing (like Italian dressing).
- We also love adding green onions or chopped cilantro!
- Dice up your ingredients finely so the different flavors are distributed evenly throughout the cowboy caviar.
- If you want to make your own simple dressing, you can just use red wine vinegar or fresh lime juice and olive oil or add seasonings like a bit of cumin and/or chili powder.
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Serving Suggestions
- Serve this as a salsa dip with chips
- It’s also great inside (or alongside) tacos or a quesadilla for dinner or lunch.
- Add it to burrito bowls or serve it over lettuce as a salad.
- You can add anything you like – avocado or chicken are great additions.
Cowboy Caviar Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 (15 ounce) can black beans rinsed and drained
- 15.5 (15.5 ounce) can black-eyed beans rinsed and drained
- 14.5 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes drained
- 1 small red onion diced
- ½ medium red bell pepper chopped
- 2 cups frozen corn thawed
- 1 jalapeno pepper chopped
- ½ teaspoon garlic salt
- 1 cup salad dressing we used Italian
- Chopped cilantro for garnish
Instructions
- Instructions:
- Except for garlic salt, salad dressing and cilantro, Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl. Mix in garlic salt. Add dressing and mix completely. Sprinkle Cilantro on top.
- Refrigerate for an hour before serving. Enjoy!
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The cowboy caviar is really good, easy to make and the name just makes it fun!
Made Cowboy caviar for dinner again. It is sooooo good!!!!! A great meal on a warm night.
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