Tex Mex Cowboy Salad
For a delicious twist on Texas caviar, make a Cowboy Salad! With veggies, beans and corn, our Tex Mex salad recipe is an easy summer side.
Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 242kcal
Equipment
- chef's knife
- large bowl
Ingredients
- 6 cups chopped romaine lettuce (about 2 small heads of lettuce)
- 3 Roma tomatoes diced, or 15 oz canned diced tomatoes, drained
- 15 ounces canned black beans drained and rinsed well
- 11 ounces canned white corn drained and rinsed, or 1 1/2 cups fresh, frozen, or other canned corn
- ½ cup diced red onion (about 1 onion)
- ¼ cup chopped cilantro or flat leaf parsley
- 1 bell pepper any color (seeds and membrane removed), cut into slices
- 1 avocado pitted and chopped
- 1 jalapeno pepper (seeds and membrane removed), minced
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice 1 small lime
- pesto vinaigrette or your favorite salad dressing
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a salad bowl in the order listed. Add lime juice and toss to combine. OR, spread the salad ingredients on a large serving platter, and squeeze lime juice over the top.
- Just before serving, make pesto vinaigrette (or your favorite dressing). Pour over the Tex Mex salad, then toss well to combine.
Notes
If you’re unable to find any good-quality tomatoes, substitute fresh ones with a can of diced tomatoes! Just be sure to drain the juice so it doesn’t water down the cowboy caviar salad.
To make Cowboy Salad ahead of time:
To make salad ahead, mix all salad ingredients together, except tomatoes. Keep the salad in one large or a few individual airtight containers in the fridge. Wait to add tomatoes and the salad dressing until ready to serve.
How to Store Cowboy Salad:
Leftovers can be refrigerated for up to 3 days and served as-is. However, the sooner you enjoy it, the better, because the longer it sits in dressing, the more soggy your cowboy salad will become.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 242kcal | Carbohydrates: 40g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Sodium: 11mg | Potassium: 832mg | Fiber: 12g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 5284IU | Vitamin C: 43mg | Calcium: 49mg | Iron: 3mg