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Cowboy caviar

Name: Cowboy caviar
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 1 can black beans, drained and rinsed; 1 can black-eyed peas, drained and rinsed; 1 1/3 cups frozen corn, thawed; 3 Roma tomatoes, diced; 1 small red bell peppers, diced; 1/2 small red onions, diced fine; 1 jalapeño, minced; 1 avocado, diced; a handful fresh cilantro, chopped; 2 tbsp olive oil; 2, juiced lime; 1 tsp honey; 3/4 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp ground cumin

The bean salsa that keeps going viral every summer: black beans, black-eyed peas, corn and avocado in a lime dressing. A dip that quietly eats like a salad.

Time: 15 min (15 prep + 0 cook)
Servings: 8
Per serving: 185 kcal
Protein: 6 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

1 can black beans, drained and rinsed240 g
1 can black-eyed peas, drained and rinsed240 g
1 1/3 cups frozen corn, thawed200 g
3 Roma tomatoes, diced200 g
1 small red bell peppers, diced100 g
1/2 small red onions, diced fine60 g
1 jalapeño, minced20 g
1 avocado, diced150 g
a handful fresh cilantro, chopped12 g

Dressing

2 tbsp olive oil30 g
2, juiced lime45 g
1 tsp honey8 g
3/4 tsp salt4 g
1/2 tsp ground cumin1 g

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Steps

Whisk the dressing in the bottom of your biggest bowl.
Add everything except the avocado and toss well.
Fold the avocado in last so it stays in pieces.
Rest 20 minutes before serving with chips, on grilled chicken, or straight — it's a salad wearing a dip's name tag.

Why this score

moderately filling

No single route carries this one — a moderate amount of protein, volume and fiber.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

12% of kcal

74% water

36 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 1479 kcal goes into the pot, 1310 g of ingredients comes out as ~1150 g of food → 129 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 129
Protein: (12%); 4 g
Fat: (40%); 6 g
Carbohydrates: (48%); 16 g
of which sugar: 3 g
Fiber: 5 g
Sodium: 202 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.