Live it up with Texas Caviar!
I first had Texas Caviar six years ago while briefly living in Georgia. It was love at first bite. With ingredients such as black eyed peas, tomatoes, corn, and fresh green onions, whats a Southerner not to love?
The name is apt, it truly is the caviar of the south. I serve mine with tortilla chips but many a person has been known to eat it simply with a bowl and spoon. However you decide to partake of it, this recipe combines the best of summer flavors and lets you spoon up the good life for you and your guests!
You’ll need: Two cans whole kernel corn, two cans black eyed peas (with jalapeno if you can get them), large can petite diced tomatoes, small bottle zesty italian dressing, fresh parsley, two green onions.Feel free to substitute fresh tomatoes if you have them available to you!
Chop up a fourth of a cup of fresh parsley. The entire recipe is at the bottom of the page so don’t fret over quantities now.
Add fresh parsley to vegetables.
Cut in your green onions. I just cut mine with kitchen shears while I hold them over the bowl. You can chop them if you prefer or use my method and just pop those shears in the dishwasher!
Refrigerate for several hours to let flavors blend and serve with tortilla or corn chips, like you do salsa.
Texas Caviar
2 green onions
1/4 C chopped fresh parsley
2 cans black eyed peas (with jalapeno if available)
1 large can petite diced tomatoes
2 cans whole kernel corn
1 small bottle zesty italian dressing
Drain cans well and pour contents into large mixing bowl or dishpan. Add chopped parsley. Cut onions and add. Pour dressing over all and stir well. Refrigerate. Sever with tortilla or corn chips.
Enjoy!
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A huge thanks from me for this one. It looks so delicious…..I love all of the ingredients, and I LOVE how moist fruit cocktail cake always turns out!
Christy this looks great! Wish I would have seen it before I hosted my book club last week…it would have been a great “starter”.
Most importantly I wanted to let you know my hankie got here. It is GORGEOUS!!! Thank you so much. Just last week, I had a bad summer cold (not that I could have ever used such a beautiful hankie, ) and watched “You’ve Got Mail” with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. In the movie she has a line where she says, “children just don’t know what hankies are anymore..imagine that” (or something along those lines), so I am feeling very “Meg Ryanish” right now, with my pretty hankie!
Thank you again…SO MUCH.
I better stop now, it says “comments” and not “long letters”.
Will be trying the Texas Caviar at my next party.
Angie: Thank you so much! If you try it, I guarantee you’ll love it. Honestly. You sound like me and when we like all this mess, glopping it together and putting it on a tortilla chip is like a one way ticket to heaven! I could pig out on it all day long!!!
Now I gotta go eat some more fruit cocktail cake!
~Christy
Debbie: I’m so glad you got it!!! It wasn’t all that pretty now! I just like to sit and embroider little hankies. I don’t ever have a plan or design in mind, I just choose thread colors that look pretty to me that day and sit and do flowers or leaves or borders, whatever strikes my fancy!
I know exactly what you are talking about with the meg ryan comment. It does make you feel…I don’t know. There is just something special about having something pretty and dainty!
Hey, the only thing better than a comment is a novel! hehe! Thank you for letting me know it got there, I was wondering about that this morning!
Do try the Texas Caviar, I am sure you’ll like it! I wish I had a better camera to get a good up close shot.
~sighs~
Its on top of my list once I hit the lottery!
~Christy
LOL I love the name of this!!! MY kids would not eat it though ): I would!
OK I am going to send you a one skillet recipe for genuine Korean Curry….yes its not southern and its WAY diff but I made ti tonight aND i think you would enjoy it. I will try to get it together this week of your interested!
Oh wow Christy I love Texas Caviar!!! I make this over the holidays and can them and add to my wonderful holiday food baskets. My recipe doesnt have tomatoes what a nice addition. Our recipe is almost exact except mine has Cilantro instead of Parsley and i dont add the tomatoes but everything else is exact.
Pink: IF I’m interested???????? ME, not being interested in a recipe? Are you crazy! SEND IT TO ME GAL!!!
Of COURSE I’m INTERESTED!!!
Tina (Mommy’s Kitchen) – And you made pralines today, which are one of my dearest favorites! LOL I swear, we are going to start posting the same recipes on the same days eventually!
I like this one because I have most of the ingredients most of the time!
Im making this for a family get-together today but I added cilantro rather than parsley-my coworker is a Texan and thats how she makes it.. so I will let you know if its a hit or not. Hopefully so because it sure made a lot!!
ps: I just found your blog through another cooking site-keep up the good work!
Thank you, Jinxi!
I have heard a few people say they use Cilantro. I think this is one of those recipes where you can just vary it so much and either way it turns out wonderful! Most folks use jalapeno, too. I tend to like things a little on the mild side though and often kids are eating this when I make it.
I’m sure they will love it and I’ll have to try it with cilantro next time!
I took this to school on the first day for the faculty and it got rave reviews! I was a little worried, I usually take baked goods and didn’t know how this would go over but WOW.
I bet they will love it and on the extremely off chance they don’t…MORE FOR YOU!!!
Thanks for commenting and I hope you come back often!
Looking for recipes today and found your site and I love it!! In fact I will be making several for some very special meals during the holidays. Only one thing that I wish you could do and that is give some clue as to how many people these feed. Thank you and I will be back!!!
Christy….
Just wanted to let you know I made the Texas Caviar and the Butterfingers Cake for the Super Bowl game today… both were a great hit.
Thanks so much for all the wonderful stories and recipes you send.
Blessings to you and your family.
Linda in Keithville Louisiana
“Go Cardinals”…. They played a great game and gave it their all!!
I love this recipe but mine is just a tad different – shoe peg corn for that extra burst in your mouth flavor, green onions AND regular onions, a large jalapeno pepper, and BOTH parsley and cilantro. Making it for a girl’s night out this weekend as it’s always one of us Southern girls’ favorites!
HI Christy,
I know this post is old, so I hope you get this comment.
Your cooking website is the ONLY food-related website I follow, and I am very new here. I am also fairly new to Southern cooking, even though we have lived here for 20 years.
But, here is the funny part…I thought I had invented this recipe! Yes, I know it sounds ridiculous.
About 4 weeks ago, I threw the following items in a bowl and we LOVED the result:
1 can bi-color corn, drained
1 can black beans, rinsed and drained
1 can diced tomatoes with chopped green chilies
cilantro
black pepper
minced garlic
olive oil
lime juice
My 19 year-old said it would be great as a main dish with some cooked chicken tossed in.
Imagine my chagrin when I saw it on your website.
Anyway, I wanted to share my funny story with you!
Bye,
Gail