Easy Cowboy Caviar | Cookies and Cups

This straightforward Cowboy Caviar Recipe is the right appetizer and even mild dinner. Get pleasure from it with a bowl chips, as a baked potato topper, or on high of a plate of nachos!

And in the event you like this recipe be certain to strive my Spicy Frito Corn Salad too! CRAZY GOOD!

What Is Cowboy Caviar? 

It’s a enjoyable title proper? Cowboy Caviar aka Texas Caviar is a bean-style salsa that originated in… you guessed it… Texas! It’s a cross between a chunky salsa and a bean dip, with a quite simple French dressing so as to add tons of taste. Sometimes it consists of black eyed peas, however I don’t love these, so my model makes use of all black beans. There are tons of variations of Cowboy Caviar on the market, so be at liberty to get inventive, which I’ve included on this publish. That is the right dip to convey to a potluck, or BBQ!

Components:

The total recipe record with measurements could be discovered on the backside of this publish within the recipe card!

• Black beans, rinsed and drained
• Canned corn, drained
• Ro-Tel (diced tomatoes and inexperienced chilis), drained nicely
• Recent Cilantro 
• Purple bell pepper 
• Jalapeño
• Purple onion 
• Cumin
• Garlic powder
• Kosher salt
• Any mild oil. I like to make use of avocado oil or mild olive oil!
• Juice of a lime
• Ripe avocados

How To Make Cowboy Caviar/Directions:

1. All you’ll want to do is add all of the components to a big bowl and stir to mix. 
2. You’ll be able to take pleasure in this instantly or cowl the bowl and refrigerate to permit the flavors to mix. In case you let this sit for a number of hours within the fridge every thing comes collectively properly, which makes it an excellent recipe to prep for entertaining!

How To Serve Cowboy Caviar:

The selection is yours! Listed here are some apparent and never so apparent serving concepts:

• With tortilla chips! That is the obvious and widespread serving concept for Cowboy Caviar. 
• On high of a baked potato! That is such an excellent concept and a option to flip your potato right into a meal. Simply add somewhat butter, cheese, bitter cream, and a complete lot of Cowboy Caviar. SO good!
• In case you love making nachos, that is such an excellent addition. 
• I’ve a recipe for Cowboy Caviar Pizza right here on my web site that this works nice on!
• On high of grilled hen or steak! I grill tons of hen breasts, particularly in the summertime, and that is so good served proper on high with a sprinkle of cotija cheese!
• Inside a burrito!
• As a aspect dish on New Years Day! Sub in black eyed peas for a can of the black beans and you’ve got a conventional good luck aspect dish within the new 12 months!
• On tacos, a taco salad, or a burrito bowl! That is the right addition to Taco Tuesday!

Can You Make This Cowboy Caviar Recipe Forward?

• In case you plan on making this recipe upfront, wait so as to add the avocado till able to serve, particularly in the event you prep a day earlier than. The avocado can flip somewhat brown the longer it sits, which is ok taste-wise, however it’s good so as to add it on the final minute to look prettiest!
• If prepped forward you may discover liquid varieties within the bowl because the veggies macerate. Merely stir the combination up with the liquid, to maximise taste after which drain any extra. 
• You’ll be able to retailer this within the fridge for as much as 3 days hermetic. 

Recipe Suggestions:

• Chop every thing the identical dimension! That is such a easy recipe to make that chopping the components is the first a part of the prep! Since you’ll most probably serve this with chips, it’s finest when all of the components are uniformly diced so it’s simply dipped like a chunky salsa!
• Wash your cilantro nicely! Nothing worse than getting sandy cilantro into your cowboy caviar! 
• Be certain that to empty the can of Ro-Tel nicely. The combination will naturally type some liquid so that you don’t want any added. Identical goes for the corn and black beans!

Variations:

That is a type of recipes that may be altered endlessly. Whether or not or not it’s with seasonings, or greens, the chances are infinite! Listed here are a number of straightforward concepts:

• If recent tomatoes are in season be at liberty to swap out the can of Ro-Tel for recent. You’ll be able to add in some diced inexperienced chilis if you’d like too!
• Omit the cilantro. I do know so many don’t love cilantro, so it’s a quite simple ingredient to depart out (though I personally adore it!). Merely sub in chopped flat leaf parsley as a substitute!
• Change up the seasonings and add what you want! Cumin, crushed crimson pepper flakes, smoked paprika, chili powder are a number of nice additions to spice it up!
• Use Black Eyed Peas together with the black beans. I don’t love black eyed peas, so I like to make use of all black beans in my recipe, however you might swap them in if you’d like, like pinto beans. Truthfully most beans will work within the recipe. 
• Use orange, yellow, or inexperienced bell peppers together with or rather than the crimson bell pepper in the event you favor!
• Add in some inexperienced onions! You would do that on the final minute for a garnish or combine them proper in!
• Use pickled jalapenos as a substitute of recent.
• In case you don’t have recent lime juice swap that out for lemon juice and even white or crimson wine vinegar!

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