Cowboy Caviar Recipe with Southern Peas

Cowboy Caviar

Ingredients

  • 2 cups  cooked black beans - cooled
  • 2 cups  cooked southern peas also known as cow peas or black eye peas- cooled
  • 1-2 cups  Fresh diced tomatoes
  • 2 cups  cooked corn kernels
  • 1 small red onion diced
  • 1 green bell pepper
  • 1 jalapeno minced
  • 1 bunch cilantro chopped
  • S+P to taste
  • 2 cup  chili cumin vinaigrette

Instructions

  • Mix all the ingredients together. Refrigerate overnight before serving.

Chili Cumin Vinaigrette

Ingredients

  • 2 Tbsp  chili powder
  • 2 Tbsp  cumin powder
  • 1 Tbsp  Dijon mustard
  • ½  cup  MH gewürztraminer
  • ½  cup  rice wine vinegar
  • ½  red onion minced
  • 2 cups  blended olive oil
  • S+P to taste

Instructions

  • Blend all the ingredients together less the oil
  • Slowly whisk in the oil to create an emulsification

Notes

This is a great recipe for these hot summer days.  I keep this salad in my refrigerator.  Plus, It has at least 5 vegetables and you can change them up depending on what you have in the garden.  Today I had chopped raw zucchini in mine.
Executive Chef Chris Shepley of The Vintage House Restaurant features vineyard cuisine and locally grown fresh from the garden produce in his recipes. He conducts Cooking Parties with the Chef on the third Sunday of each month at Messina Hof Winery.
Executive Chef Chris Shepley of The Vintage House Restaurant features vineyard cuisine and locally grown fresh from the garden produce in his recipes. He conducts Cooking Parties with the Chef on the third Sunday of each month at Messina Hof Winery.
 

This is a great recipe for these hot summer days.  I keep this salad in my refrigerator.  Plus, It has at least 5 vegetables and you can change them up depending on what you have in the garden.  Today I had chopped raw zucchini in mine.

The Vintage House Restaurant features vineyard cuisine and locally grown fresh from the garden produce.

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