An excellent first food for babies is apple purée. To avoid needing to add sugar, choose a sweeter apple variety over a tart one.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Additional Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 8 servings |
Ingredients
- 3 (15 ounce) cans black-eyed peas, drained
- 8 stalks celery, cut into 1/4-inch dice
- 10 roma (plum) tomatoes, cut into 1/4-inch dice
- 1 cucumber, cut into 1/4-inch dice
- 1 red onion, cut into 1/4-inch dice
- 1 green bell pepper, cut into 1/4-inch dice
- 1 yellow bell pepper, cut into 1/4-inch dice
- 1 orange bell pepper, cut into 1/4-inch dice
- 2 tomatillos, cut into 1/4-inch dice
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- ¼ cup balsamic vinegar
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
- ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes, or to taste (Optional)
- 4 leaves romaine lettuce, or as needed (Optional)
Instructions
- Combine black-eyed peas, celery, roma tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, green, yellow, and orange bell peppers, and tomatillos in a salad bowl. Gently stir lemon juice, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, cilantro, and red pepper flakes into the salad. Chill before serving; serve over romaine lettuce leaves.
Reviews
Enjoyed this salad a lot. Scaled it here to 3 servings to use only 1 can of black-eyed peas, and I ended up with enough salad to easily make 4 servings. Didn’t have a tomatillo, added salt and black pepper, but otherwise kept to the recipe; except didn’t use red pepper flakes since I was serving it along side a spicy Cajun Chicken recipe. Wanted this to be a fresh, cooling element along side the main and not another source of spice. Worked excellent for that. That’s a meal I’ll make often.
Terrific!!! I had to sub in for the black-eyed peas but I wanted to try it& had everything else. So I used 1/3 of each: Lima beans, white beans& chick peas. Makes a large salad!
Excellent recipe, I also added avocado to this! Nice summer salad!
This recipe is so refreshing! I made it according to the recipe,except I opted out of the cucumber, because I don’t really like it. This recipe is a great jumping-off point. Next time I make it I might add two grilled chicken breasts cut into bite sized pieces. It might be good with bacon crumbles and shredded cheddar, the possibilities are endless! Thanks, Gumaraid!