Lobia salad - cowpeas salad
An easy and simple bean salad recipe with lobia, potatoes, veggies and Indian spices.
Servings 4
Ingredients
- 2.5 cups Cooked lobia or cowpeas 1 cup unsoaked cowpeas will yield 2.5 cups soaked cowpeas
- 250 gms Potato
- 2 Tomatoes
- 1 Cucumber
- 1 Onion
- ¼ cup Sunflower seeds
- 2 tbsp Olive oil
- 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
- ¼ tsp Garam masala powder
- ¼ tsp Chaat masala
- ¼ tsp Jaggery powder
- ¼ tsp roasted cumin powder
- ½ tsp Pepper powder
- Salt to taste
- 1 tsp Lemon juice
Instructions
- Soak 1 cup cowpeas or lobia in 3 cups water for 8 hours.
- Drain water from soaked cowpeas and wash them well for a couple of times.
- Pressure cook these by adding 2 cups of water for 4 whistles. It will take around 15 minutes.
- While cowpeas are getting cooked, chop potatoes into cubes and steam them or boil them with enough water.
- Finely chop onion, tomatoes, cucumber, coriander leaves and keep it aside.
- Take boiled potatoes and add finely chopped veggies and mix everything.
- Add all mentioned spices, lemon juice and olive oil to the above mixture and mix everything well.
- Add cooked cowpeas, coriander leaves and sunflower seeds and give it a final mix. The salad is ready to serve !!
- Salad can be served cold or hot. Make sure to add salt and sunflower seeds just before serving.