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Revolutionary Recipe: Oil-Free Texas Caviar

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Summary

Recipe from Garden Fresh Foodie Editor’s note: This plant-based recipe for Texas Caviar is oil-free and made without refined sugar, which means this dish has fewer calories than most Texas Caviar recipes. You can serve this as a healthy snack or appetizer with tortilla chips or sliced veggies. Or you can use it to top

Recipe from Garden Fresh Foodie

Editor’s note: This plant-based recipe for Texas Caviar is oil-free and made without refined sugar, which means this dish has fewer calories than most Texas Caviar recipes. You can serve this as a healthy snack or appetizer with tortilla chips or sliced veggies. Or you can use it to top salads or sweet potatoes. Enjoy!

How to make this plant-based recipe

Oil-Free Texas Caviar

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Number of servings: 15

Per Serving 74 calories

Fat 0 g

Carbs 16 g

Protein 3 g

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Ingredients

  • 1-15 oz. can pinto beans (or 1 3/4 cup cooked beans)
  • 1-15 oz can black eyed peas (or 1 3/4 cup cooked beans)
  • 2 cups fresh or frozen corn (raw), if frozen, thaw by running water over and strain
  • 1-15 oz can diced tomatoes or 2 cups fresh chopped tomato
  • 4 oz of pimentos-drained
  • 1 large chopped red/orange or green pepper-about 2 cups
  • 1 cup scallions, chopped or 1/2 cup minced red onion
  • 1/2 cup chopped parsley/cilantro/ or fresh minced basil, or combo
  • Sauce

  • 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar +2 tbsp
  • 2 tbsp maple syrup
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  • 1 tsp ground pepper

Instructions

  1. Drain and rinse beans if using canned, adding pimentos, tomatoes (with juice), peppers, scallions, and basil/parsley and place in a medium sized bowl.
  2. Bring sauce ingredients to a boil in a pot and pour over caviar ingredients.
  3. Chill 2 hours, overnight. Best served the next day.

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