Recipe: Delicious Texas Caviar or Southern Salsa

Texas Caviar or Southern Salsa. This version of Texas caviar mixes black beans and pinto beans instead of black-eyed peas with jalapeno peppers, cilantro, red onion and bell peppers. Serve with scoop-style tortilla chips to make a zesty crowd-pleasing party appetizer. Texas Caviar or Southern Salsa Texas Caviar.

Texas Caviar Salsa - Mississippi Style Fall is around the corner y'all - and thank goodness at least for a couple of days here, our temperatures have been much milder. There are a few names for this Cowboy Caviar: Texas Caviar, Cowboy Salsa, Southwestern Veggie Salad, Lone Star Caviar, Southwestern Bean Salad, Black Eyed Pea salad, Southern Caviar, Tex Mex Caviar, Hillbilly Caviar, and probably a few more… I'm most familiar with Cowboy Caviar. Hey call it whatever you want, a salsa or a salad, its delicious no matter what. You can cook Texas Caviar or Southern Salsa using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Texas Caviar or Southern Salsa

1. It's 1 cup of Sugar.
2. You need 1 cup of Olive Oil.
3. You need 1/2 cup of Cider Vinegar.
4. You need 2 of Stalks of celery, chopped.
5. You need 1 of Onion, medium.
6. You need 1/2 cup of Jalapeno peppers, chopped.
7. It's 4 oz of Pimento, drained.
8. Prepare 1 can of Glory Black-eyed Peas, drained.
9. Prepare 1 can of Goya Black Beans, drained.
10. You need 1 bag of of Tostitos, Restaurant style.
11. Prepare 1 can of Super sweet White Corn, drained.

Texas Caviar is basically a salsa made with black-eyed peas. And there are probably as many variations as there are Texans! We like it with lots of fresh vegetables like bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, tomatoes, and corn when it's in season. This Cowboy Caviar salsa is wonderfully fresh, healthy, simple and loaded!

Texas Caviar or Southern Salsa step by step

1. Rinse and drain the beans and corn..
2. Finely chop the veggies..
3. Combine the veggies, beans and corn into a rectangular pyrex dish..
4. Heat together the sugar, oil and cider vinegar until dissolved, stirring continuously. Pour over ingredients and marinate for 24 hours..

We make this salsa all summer long. It makes a big batch so it is an ideal summer party dip. A surprising ingredient infuses every bite with incredible flavor. The list goes on and on, and it's also called Southwest Black Bean Salad, Corn and Black Bean Salad, Black Bean and Corn Salsa, and Black-Eyed Pea Salad. Cowboy Caviar, Texas Caviar, Black Eyed Pea Salsa or even something else?