Tuna Cowboy Caviar Food

COWBOY CAVIAR

Steps:

• Whisk together the vinegar, pickled jalapeno brine, honey, 1/2 teaspoon salt and several grinds of pepper in a large bowl. Whisk in the oil to make a smooth dressing.
• Add the black-eyed peas, black beans, corn, cilantro, pickled jalapeno, scallions, tomatoes and bell pepper. Toss to coat in the dressing. Season to taste with additional salt and pepper. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour to blend the flavors before serving. Serve with tortilla chips for scooping.

UPTOWN COWBOY CAVIAR

Steps:

• Combine the black beans, black-eyed peas, pinto beans, shoepeg corn, celery, cilantro, red and yellow bell peppers, green onion, pimento peppers, jalapeno pepper, and garlic in a large bowl. Set aside.
• Bring the rice vinegar, olive oil, sugar, salt, and black pepper to a boil in a saucepan over medium-high heat until sugar is dissolved, about 5 minutes. All to cool to room temperature, then pour over the bean mixture. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours or overnight. Drain before serving.

SO SIMPLE COWBOY CAVIAR

Steps:

• In small saucepan, combine oil, sugar and vinegar.
• Heat and boil 1 minute and then cool completely.
• In large bowl, combine beans, peas, corn, peppers and onions.
• Pour vinegar mixture over bean/pepper mixture and mix to thoroughly coat.
• Cover and marinate overnight.
• Drain for 2-3 hours before serving.

COWBOY CAVIAR

Steps:

• Mix beans, peas, tomatoes, corn, onion, bell pepper, and jalapeno peppers in a large bowl. Season with garlic salt. Add dressing and cilantro; toss to coat. Refrigerate for 20 minutes or until ready to serve.

BEST EVER COWBOY CAVIAR

Steps:

• Combine olive oil, vegetable oil, cider vinegar, and sugar in a saucepan; bring to a boil, remove from heat, and cool to room temperature.
• Stir pinto beans, black-eyed peas, corn, onion, celery, red bell pepper, and cilantro together in a large bowl. Pour cooled oil mixture over bean mixture and toss to coat. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate, stirring occasionally, for 24 hours. Drain excess dressing before serving.

TUNA COWBOY CAVIAR

Steps:

• Toss salad ingredients together (except avocado, until just before serving. You can cover avocado with a layer of dressed salad to keep it from browning or just add it as you eat it.).
• Whisk dressing ingredients together and stir into salad.
• Optional: You can stir in shredded cheddar cheese and/or cubed cream cheese.
• Serve as a dip with tortilla chips, over lettuce as a salad, wrapped in a tortilla with cheese or on it's own as a filling lunch.

COWBOY CAVIAR

Steps:

• Mix all dressing ingredients together and set aside.
• Mix all veggies together in a large bowl.
• Add dressing and mix together well.
• If you can wait, give the mixture an hour or so for the flavors to really come out. The longer it sits, the better it tastes. But it's delicious to eat straight away too.
• Note: I rarely use the exact ingredient amounts. It's good to substitute black or red beans for the pinto beans or to use regular corn for shoepeg. I've used red wine vinegar in place of garlic red wine vinegar as well. You can even add hot sauce if you like spicy. I always double the recipe (but not necessarily the dressing) and eat on it for days. It's good in burritos, pitas, or on top salads, anything really. It's a very flexible recipe.

COWBOY CAVIAR

Steps:

• If you are working with dry beans, soak only the black beans overnight. In a 5-quart saucepan, bring 10 cups water to a boil. Add 1 bag of black beans and return to a boil; let boil 2-3 minutes. Cover tightly and set aside at room temperature for an hour. Drain and rinse beans. Repeat this with the black-eyed peas before preparing the rest of the recipe.
• Combine black-eyed peans, black beans, corn, green onions, green bell pepper, tomatoes, and cilantro in a medium bowl.
• Prepare dressing: In a small bowl whisk together the olive oil, vinegar, lime juice, Dijon mustard, and salt and pepper.
• Pour dressing over bean mixture. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
• Just before serving, add avocado and gently stir to combine. Scoop into peppers and serve.

COWBOY CAVIAR

Steps:

• In a large bowl, mix vinegar, hot sauce, oil, garlic, and pepper.
• Peel, pit, and cut avocado into 1/2-inch cubes. Add to vinegar mixture and mix gently to coat.
• Add black eyed peas, beans, corn, onions, cilantro, and tomatoes to avocado; mix gently to coat. Squeeze lime juice over the mixture, if desired.
• Add salt to taste.
• Serve the mixture with chips as an appetizer.

TUNA TARTARE IN A CUCUMBER BOAT TOPPED WITH CAVIAR

Steps:

• With a heavy sharp knife, chop tuna into very small slices. In a mixing bowl, combine tuna, chives, capers, shallots, lemon juice, oil, salt and freshly ground pepper and chill for 1 hour. While tuna is chilling, prepare cucumber boats. Peel cucumber and cut into 2-inch long cylinders. With a teaspoon, scoop out the seeds from inside the cucumber disk without touching the very bottom of the cucumber. (In other words, leave a "bottom" in the hollowed-out center of the cucumber.) Season cucumber with salt and pepper. Fill with 1-ounce of tuna tartare. Top with 1/8 teaspoon of caviar. Finish with a sprig of parsley.

TUNA TARTARE IN A CUCUMBER BOAT TOPPED WITH CAVIAR

Steps:

• With a heavy sharp knife, chop tuna into very small slices. In a mixing bowl, combine tuna, chives, capers, shallots, lemon juice, oil, salt and freshly ground pepper and chill for 1 hour.
• Whilst tuna is chilling, prepare cucumber boats. Peel cucumber and cut into 2-inch long cylinders. With a teaspoon, scoop out the seeds from inside the cucumber disc without touching the very bottom of the cucumber. (In other words, leave a "bottom" in the hollowed-out center of the cucumber.)
• Presentation:
• Season cucumber with salt and pepper. Fill with 1-ounce of tuna tartare. Top with 1/8 teaspoon of caviar. Finish with a sprig of parsley.

SEARED TUNA WITH CAVIAR

Steps:

• Brush egg white on all sides of the tuna with a pastry brush.
• Mix the ground pepper and coriander and press the tuna into this mixture, using as much of it as necessary to cover each side and the ends.
• Heat a heavy saute pan and pour about half of the oil into the pan. Bring to the smoking point and carefully place the tuna in the pan. Sear each side until dark brown and crusty, adding more oil if needed to keep the tuna from sticking. Sear the ends as well. Each side should take about one to one and a half minutes. Remove the tuna and let it rest for at least 10 minutes before slicing.
• Using a very sharp knife, cut the tuna into one-half- to one-third-inch slices, allowing three slices per serving.
• Arrange the dressed salad greens on each of eight plates at 12 o'clock.
• In a semicircle, overlap three slices of tuna below the greens, with the top edges of tuna resting on the salad. At the base of each piece of tuna, place a dollop of the sauce.

EASY COWBOY CAVIAR

Steps:

• Rinse and drain the corn and beans.
• Put salsa, corn, and 3/4 of each can of beans into a large bowl.
• Mix thoroughly.
• Add avocado, parsley and green onions, mix in gently so the avocados don't get mashed.
• Serve with salty corn chips, scoop shape is best.

THE BEST COWBOY CAVIAR

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients except the avocado.
• Allow to sit in the refrigerator for several hours, or overnight.
• Peel and dice the avocados just before serving.
• Add avocado to remaining ingredients and stir gently to combine.
• Serve with tortilla chips.
• Adjust amounts of any ingredients to your preferred taste.