Discover the refreshing flavors of Mavromatakia, a delightful Black Eye Pea Salad, perfect for any occasion. Healthy, tasty, and easy to make!
Refreshing Mediterranean Salad with a Twist
The Black Eye Pea Salad is a nutritious and vibrant dish that combines a variety of fresh ingredients. To prepare this salad, you will need 250g of dried black-eye peas, which are rich in protein and fiber. Additionally, the salad includes halved cherry tomatoes, coarsely grated carrot, thinly sliced red capsicum, and spring onions. To enhance the flavor, fresh herbs such as mint, dill, and flat-leaf parsley are finely chopped and added to the mix.
The accompanying Honey Mustard Dressing elevates the salad with a delightful blend of flavors. This dressing includes extra virgin olive oil, red wine vinegar, Dijon mustard, honey, and grated garlic, seasoned with sea salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper. The combination of the hearty black-eye peas and the crisp vegetables, dressed in a tangy and sweet sauce, makes this salad a delicious and healthy option for anyone looking to incorporate gluten-free meals into their diet.
Delightfully Tangy: A Mediterranean Twist on Classic Black-Eyed Peas
Black ey peas are popular all over Greece in stews and salads particularly during fasting periods when most Greeks follow a vegan diet we’re going to make a salad called mavro mataka mavro refers to the black dot in the PE and mataka translates to I so you have a black i p salad now this is a really quick and easy salad very nutrient-dense high in.
Fiber high in protein and great for a lean Clean Diet so to start we add our peas to a pot with some cold water water and we’re going to simmer them gently for 25 minutes until they’re nice soft and tender now the beauty of black ey pece is that unlike other legums they don’t need to soak overnight all they need is a gentle simmer but be careful.
Not to overcook them or they will turn mushy I’ve rinsed my peas and I’m going to sit them down here let them cool so I can get onto my dressing now to start extra virgin olive oil I’m must in Mediterranean cooking growing up I think this was the only oil my mother used I have no memories of her using any other.
Oil apart from extra virgin red wine vinegar for some acidity we need about 3 tablespoons here that should do a teaspoon of dejon mustard dejon mustard adds great depth of flavor to our dressing and some honey for some sweetness I love honey in my dressing it just adds another dimension of flavor to the.
Dressing and then a garlic clove for some extra depth of flavor so you just grape that garlic clove straight into the dressing now as you can see I’m actually whisking this dressing in a large bowl and the reason I’m doing that is because all our vegetables are going to get thrown straight into this bowl and tossed together so there’s minimal.
Washing up and lastly our seasoning some sea salt Flakes and Cracked Pepper one final whisk okay I’ll Dr guing is ready for our veggies firstly some vibrant carrots these are coarsely grated cuz I want some texture in my salad and for some added textural crunch some red capsicum just juliend I go straight in this is a.
Very vibrant colorful salad as you will see and we’re also going to add some cherry tomatoes so I’m just going to slice these in half this is a rainbow salad we have every color of the rainbow in this salad texture crunch flavor it tis all your boxes for the perfect salad okay our piece of C they can go straight into our.
Salad it’s already looking vibrant and colorful and we haven’t even added our herbs now our herbs a classic combination in Mediterranean cooking is Dill parsley and mint just roll up our herbs and chop them finely my father had these herbs growing in our back Garden in abundance because.
We always always use them in our cooking okay straight into the bowl and the last thing we need to add is our spring onions I’m going to slice these finely and then toss our salad together before.
serving so look at how vibrant that salad is high in protein high in fiber and no wonder this salad is so popular in the Mediterranean and we’re ready to play it up so bring our serving platter here go straight in I can’t believe I wouldn’t eat this when I was a kid now I am.
Absolutely obsessed with it it’s funny how your taste change as you get older and there we have it mro mataka salad a stunning vegan salad for your next barbecue or dinner party
